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World News Archive from 2001
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See all CADP World News links and excerpts from the years 2000 | 2002.
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- Bush Considers Concessions to Get Suspects
WASHINGTON -- In select cases, the Bush administration is considering making concessions on both the death penalty and the use of military tribunals to gain custody of suspected terrorists held in Europe, a senior U.S. official said. ... England, Italy, Germany and Spain all hold suspected members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization, al-Qaida. Those nations condemn the death penalty and have signed a 1950s-era treaty that bans extradition to states where the death penalty might be used. (12/2/01, The Daily Camera)
- Caribbean Nations Agree to Abandon Privy Council
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Some critics fear that a regional court will be liable to political pressures and the vagaries of fragile economies. Others say the link to the Privy Council reassures foreign investors that disputes would be heard dispassionately. Human rights groups charge that the new Caribbean Court of Justice will focus on the death penalty. (The Daily Camera, 2/15/01)
- Canada: Death by Extradition
The Supreme Court of Canada's ruling yesterday on the extradition to the United States of two accused killers aims for an unusually broad audience, and it deserves one. The judgment addresses not just Canadians but, implicitly, also Americans and people in all countries where capital punishment persists. To a nation enamoured with executions, Canada's highest court in effect sends this blunt message: your penchant for the death penalty combined with your shocking record of wrongful convictions for murder have created a justice system so untrustworthy that this country, which itself abolished executions 25 years ago, will generally not send you fugitives you may want to try for capital offences. (2/16/01, Editorial by the Montreal Gazette)
- China Launches New Wave of Executions
Today, China is in the midst of its third great wave of executions in the last quarter-century, a campaign in which as many as 191 people have been executed in a single day, according to the state news media. Since President Jiang Zemin announced the crackdown in April, at least 3,000 people have been executed, and double or even triple that number have been sentenced to death. The pace of executions shows no sign of abating. (9/9/01, The Daily Camera)
- China in "Execution Frenzy"
"At least 2,960 people have been sentenced to death and 1,781 executed in the last three months of China's "Strike Hard" campaign against crime," Amnesty International said today. "More people were executed in China in the last three months than in the rest of the world for the last three years." (6/7/01, Amnesty International)
- China Sells Body Parts from Death Row
Three years ago, Dr. Thomas Diflo's moral nightmare walked into his examination room: a patient freshly implanted with a kidney bought from China's death row, where prisoners are killed -- sometimes for minor offenses -- and their organs harvested. ... The trafficking of human organs from Chinese executions to American residents is "something we've always known was going on but something we've never been able to document." (5/30/01, Boulder Weekly from the Village Voice)
- Europe Berates Bush Over Execution
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A day after the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, President Bush confronted passionate European opposition to capital punishment. ... At a joint news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Bush immediately faced trans-Atlantic differences over the death penalty ... Aznar noted that Spain has abolished the death penalty and that he personally is opposed to capital punishment. (6/12/01, Rocky Mountain News)
- Iran Woman Said Stoned to Death for Sex Movies
TEHRAN, Iran -- A woman was executed after a court ordered that she be stoned to death for acting in pornographic movies, a newspaper reported Monday. The woman, 35, was partially buried in a hole at Tehran's Evin prison and stoned to death Sunday after her conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court, the daily Entekhab said. Police arrested the woman eight years ago on charges of acting in "obscene sex films." The woman, who was not identified, denied committing any crime, but evidence and testimony by witnesses led judiciary officials to issue the stoning sentence, the daily said. The paper gave no further details. Judiciary officials were not available for comment Monday. (5/22/01, The Daily Camera)
- Irish Work to Ban Death Penalty
DUBLIN, Ireland -- The hangman's chambers in grim Mountjoy Prison have been silent -- and unused -- for nearly a half century, and polls suggest most people in this predominantly Roman Catholic country want to make sure they stay that way. ... "The people of this state are being given the opportunity not only to amend the constitution to reflect modern thinking and values, but to also send a clear message to the international community of the abhorrence with which the death penalty is viewed by the people of this state," said Justice Minister John O'Donoghue. (6/6/01, The Daily Camera) - Palestinians Execute 2 for Israeli Collaboration
BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Jan. 13 -- Firing squads from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority today executed the first two Palestinians ever convicted of collaborating with Israel -- one in a public square before a surging crowd -- while two other men were sentenced to death on similar charges after a short military trial with no witnesses. (1/13/01, The Washington Post)
- Pentagon Reviewing Death Penalty Tribunals
The officials say the draft also calls for tribunal members to reach a unanimous vote on the death penalty. ... Other matters to be reviewed by Rumsfeld include under what circumstances tribunals would be open to the public and the appellate process for the death penalty. Lawmakers from both parties have criticized have criticized the Bush administration for instituting the tribunals. (12/28/01, CNN.com)
- Russian President Putin Against Death Penalty
President Putin was reported as saying yesterday in televised remarks from a Kremlin meeting with World Bank President James Wolfensohn, that Russia should uphold its five-year-old moratorium on the death penalty despite widespread calls to reinstate executions. "The state should not assume the right which only the Almighty has -- to take a human life," he said. "That is why I can say firmly -- I am against Russia reinstating the death penalty." President Putin was also quoted as saying that he was aware of public opinion on the death penalty but believed that state-sponsored cruelty did nothing to fight crime and only engendered new violence. (7/10/01, Amnesty International)
- Walker, John: American Taliban Faces Death Penalty
WASHINGTON -- Administration officials said Friday that John Walker, the American who was captured in Afghanistan, would probably face at least one charge carrying the death penalty. (12/22/01, The Daily Camera)
Walker, John: Forgiving
Instead of making him an "example," let's show understanding, mercy. (12/23/01 The Daily Camera. News commentary by Michael Kinsley.)
- World Court: US Executions Violated Rights
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The United States violated the rights of Germany and two of its citizens when it denied the condemned brothers access to their consulate before executing them in 1999 for murder, the World Court ruled Wednesday. ... Although the court did not deal with the legal or moral issue of capital punishment in the German case, the case highlighted the divergent views of Europe and the United States. The death penalty has been abolished in all member states of the European Union. (6/28/01, The Daily Camera)
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