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World News Archive from 2002
- Archive of World News
See all CADP World News links and excerpts from the years 2000 | 2001.
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- Carter's Nobel Speech Urges Death Penalty End
During the past decades, the international community, usually under the auspices of the United Nations, has struggled to negotiate global agreements that can help us achieve these essential goals. They include the abolition of land mines and chemical weapons, an end to testing, proliferation and further deployment of nuclear warheads, constraints on global warming, prohibition of the death penalty, at least for children, and an international criminal court to deter and to punish war crimes and genocide. Those agreements, already adopted, must be fully implemented, and others should be pursued aggressively. (12/10/02, CNN.com)
- China to Execute 10 in Pre-congress Crackdown
Beijing courts have handed death sentences to 10 people for rapes and robberies in a nationwide crackdown on crime as China tidies up before a key Communist Party congress, according to the Beijing Daily. ... It executed a total of 2,468 people in 2001, more than all other countries in the world put together, according to Amnesty International. (9/18/02, CNN.com)
- Germany: U.S. Death Penalty Hampers Help with Moussaoui
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Germany hopes to reach an agreement with the United States regarding the death penalty so it can hand over information on Zacarias Moussaoui, the man facing trial on conspiracy charges related to the Sept. 11 attacks. (10/25/02, CNN.com)
- Mexican President Fox Cancels Texas Bush Visit Over Execution
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 14 -- President Vicente Fox tonight canceled a trip to Texas and a meeting with President Bush to protest the state's execution earlier today of Javier Suarez Medina, who was convicted for the 1988 killing of a police officer in Dallas. ... "This decision is an unequivocal signal of rejection of the execution." (8/15/02, The Washington Post)
- Nigeria: Take Action to Save Amina Lawal - Send a Free Message
In a joint venture, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Amnesty International USA unite to help save Amina Lawal from death by stoning. Amina Lawal, a 30 year-old Muslim woman, was sentenced to stoning to death by a Shari'ah court at Bakori in Katsina State in northern Nigeria. Amina allegedly confessed to having had a child while divorced. (10/4/02, Amnesty International)
- Nigeria: Miss World Contestants Boycott Death Penalty for Sex
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Miss Denmark has joined a boycott of the Miss World pageant to protest against a death sentence imposed on a Nigerian Muslim woman accused of having sex outside marriage. (10/3/02, CNN.com)
- Secrecy of Japanese Executions is Criticized as Unduly Cruel
Prisoners are told of their execution only moments before their hanging, and are given only enough time to clean their cells, write a final letter and receive last rites. Relatives are told of the execution only after the fact and are given a mere 24 hours to collect the body. (6/24/02, New York Times, which requires free registration to read articles online.)
- Sudan Rejects Plea to Halt 88 Executions
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) -- The Sudanese government said in remarks published on Sunday it would not overturn the death sentences on 88 people who were involved in a deadly tribal clash despite an appeal from rights group Amnesty International. (8/26/02, CNN.com)
- Turkey Ending Death Penalty
Turkey is one step away from voting to abolish the death penalty in what is seen as an important step towards its ambition of joining the European Union. ... The death penalty has not been implemented since 1984 under a de facto moratorium but remains on the statute book. (8/3/02, CNN.com)
- VA Executes Pakistani -- State Department Warns of Reprisals
JARRATT, Virginia (CNN) -- A Pakistani man was executed Thursday night for killing two CIA employees in a 1993 shooting rampage outside the agency's headquarters -- an execution the State Department warned could trigger retaliatory attacks against U.S. interests overseas. ... Dozens of anti-death penalty activists protested outside the prison and held a candlelight vigil. One woman held a sign reading, "Life is sacred. Do not kill." (11/14/02, CNN.com)
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