Recent Posts Tagged With executions

• Bangladesh: Coup executions condemned

  Posted on Friday February 12th, 2010 at 11:38 pm in Bangladesh appeal process executions capital cases

  Bangladesh: Transparency needed over hasty executions and safety of family members must be ensuredAmnesty International public statement1 February 2010Amnesty International condemns last week’s execution in Bangladesh of five men found guilty of ki...

• Indonesia: Legal doubts delay executions

  Posted on Monday February 1st, 2010 at 05:40 am in indonesia appeal process executions

  Indonesian Executions Stalled as Judicial-Review Question Languishes UnansweredFrom The Jakarta Globe, 31 January, 2010By Heru AndriyantoThe absence of executions in 2009 was the result not of an intentional moratorium but because the Supreme Court h...

• Thailand: Executions a backward step

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 06:09 am in drugs thailand executions lethal injection resumption

  Thailand: resumption of executions a backwards stepPublic statement by Amnesty International, 26 August 2009As country after country abandons its use of judicial state killing, Amnesty International deeply regrets the resumption of executions in Thai...

• Thailand: Drug dealers put to death

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 05:00 am in drugs thailand executions lethal injection

  From The Bangkok Post, 25 August 2009Writer: KING-OUA LAOHONGTwo convicted drug traffickers at Bang Khwang prison have been executed by lethal injection.Bundit Jaroenwanit, 45, and Jirawat Poompreuk, 52, yesterday became the country's fifth and sixth...

• China: Businesswoman shot after unfair trial

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 08:20 pm in china executions capital cases unfair trial economic crimes

  Amnesty International has issued this update to its appeal on behalf of Du Yimin, a businesswoman who was executed last week after being convicted of "fraudulent raising of public funds".URGENT ACTIONBUSINESSWOMAN EXECUTED FOR FRAUDDu Yimin, a busine...

• Japan: Three hanged during election campaign

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 07:58 am in japan murder executions hangings

  Three killers are sent to the gallowsSeven hanged so far this yearBy MINORU MATSUTANIStaff writerStory from The Japan TimesThree convicted murderers were hanged Tuesday, the Justice Ministry said, bringing the number of executions this year to seven ...

• Japan: New year, more hangings

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 05:21 am in japan murder executions hangings

  Human rights campaigners have condemned the first executions carried out in Japan in 2009, following the hanging of four prisoners in three cities this morning [29 January].The justice ministry reportedly confirmed the men, all executed for murder, w...

• Organ transplant after execution: Singapore

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 01:57 pm in Singapore murder executions hangings

  A prominent Singapore businessman reportedly received a kidney transplant last Friday using an organ donated by an executed gangster.According to The Straits Times, police confirmed former gang leader Tan Chor Jin was hanged in Changi prison on the m...

• Executions in Japan -- 2006 - 2008

  Posted on Thursday January 1st, 2009 at 08:21 pm in japan executions hangings death penalty statistics

  Japan has executed 28 people since December 2006. All were hanged for crimes including murder.Justice minister Mori Eisuke+ Appointed minister 24 September 2008+ Approved 2 executions (to end 2008)28 October 2008Michitoshi Kuma, 70 (Fukuoka)Masahiro ...

• Indonesia executes Islamist terrorists

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 03:40 am in indonesia terrorism victims executions firing squad

  Indonesian firing squads killed three men for terrorism offences shortly after midnight this morning.Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron (also known as Mukhlas) and Imam Samudra were shot simultaneously by separate firing squads for organising the Octo...

• Japan: Record toll with new hangings

  Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 07:23 am in japan executions hangings

  Japan has executed fifteen people this year, the highest rate in more than thirty years, after it hanged two convicted murderers today.The latest executions were the first approved by new justice minister Eisuke Mori, who only took office last month....

• Firing squad: Seven minutes to die

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 06:28 am in indonesia drugs executions firing squad

  The Catholic priest who witnessed the execution of two drug traffickers in Indonesia in June has described how he sang hymns while the men took seven minutes to die.Father Charlie Burrows was present when firing squads shot the two Nigerians in the m...

• Uncertain when Islamist bombers will die

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 07:07 am in indonesia terrorism constitution appeal process executions

  Time is running out for the Indonesian government to execute three Islamist terrorists this week for the October 2002 Bali bombing.Attorney-General Hendarman Supandji has reportedly said he wanted the men shot before the start of Ramadan, the Islamic...

• Indonesia: More to die for drugs

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 05:00 am in indonesia drugs executions

  Indonesian officials have again flagged a surge in drug executions, with comments suggesting up to 39 prisoners would be executed before the end of 2009.The remarks raise concerns of an increase in executions generally, with seven shot for drugs and ...

• Indonesia: Seventh execution in six weeks

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 07:08 am in indonesia murder executions firing squad

  The Indonesian Government has executed another convicted murderer, the seventh person shot by firing squad in about six weeks.Rio Alek Bulo was shot dead by a 12-man firing squad shortly after midnight last Friday morning (8 August), according to an ...

• Indonesia: Record number executed in four weeks

  Posted on Sunday July 20th, 2008 at 07:39 am in indonesia executions firing squad

  Despite what The Jakarta Post described last week as "an increasingly anti-capital punishment sentiment in Indonesia", the government has executed as many people in the past month as it did in the previous three years.Indonesia has executed six peopl...

• Indonesia: Drug offenders executed, more to come

  Posted on Saturday June 28th, 2008 at 06:07 pm in indonesia drugs secrecy executions

  Indonesia shot two Nigerian men for drug offences late on Thursday night, and drug officials hope more executions will soon be carried out.Samuel Iwachekawu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaoysa were executed before midnight on Thursday (26 June) on Nusak...

• Executions in Japan despite appeal plans

  Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 07:34 am in japan Mental Illness appeal process executions hangings

  Japan's justice minister Kunio Hatoyama has now approved the execution of thirteen prisoners, with three more hangings carried out yesterday.Three men were hanged in Tokyo and Osaka for murders committed up to 23 years ago.Tsutomu Miyazaki, 45, and S...

• Executions in Japan -- 2006 - 2008

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 08:40 am in executions hangings death penalty statistics

  Japan has executed 20 people since December 2006. All were hanged for crimes including murder.Ten executions were approved by the current Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama, who was appointed on 27 August 2007.The other ten were executed in eleven month...

• Japan: Minister steps up rate of hangings

  Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 07:18 am in Mental Illness innocence executions hangings

  Japan hanged four death row prisoners on Thursday this week (10 April), marking a sharp increase in the rate of hangings in the past two years.The latest executions bring to ten the number of death warrants approved by Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama...

• Japan: Sixteen hanged in thirteen months

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 05:51 am in executions hangings

  Japan hanged three men on Friday (1 February), bringing to 16 the number of people executed in the last 13 months.Human rights organisations, members of parliament and lawyers condemned the execution of Masahiko Matsubara, 63, Takashi Mochida, 65, an...

• Tochi in Singapore: "the burden thus shifted"

  Posted on Saturday January 26th, 2008 at 02:00 am in drugs Singapore executions mandatory hangings

  This post was originally written for the excellent historical blog Executed Today.On this day one year ago, a promising young Nigerian soccer player was taken from his cell in Singapore's Changi Prison. It was dawn on a Friday morning, execution time...

• Japan finally names three executed

  Posted on Sunday December 9th, 2007 at 05:37 am in secrecy executions public opinion hangings

  Japan lifted some of the secrecy surrounding its death penalty system when it released the names of three men hanged in Osaka on Friday (7 December).The Justice Ministry confirmed that Seiha Fujima, 47, and Hiroki Fukawa, 42, were hanged in Tokyo, an...

• North Korea: Shot for making phone calls

  Posted on Thursday December 6th, 2007 at 04:50 am in north korea executions firing squad economic crimes public executions

  North Korea has executed a man in a crowded stadium for making international phone calls, part of what a South Korean aid agency described as a resumption of public executions.According to the Associated Press, a report from South Korean aid agency G...

• Japan executed mentally ill man

  Posted on Sunday August 26th, 2007 at 05:53 am in Mental Illness executions capital cases

  One of three Japanese men hanged last week had been diagnosed as suffering from mental illness, according to an update released by Amnesty International (AI).The human rights organisation said that, at the time of his trial, doctors from both the pro...

• Japan: Lawyers condemn three more executions

  Posted on Friday August 24th, 2007 at 07:42 am in secrecy executions public opinion hangings capital cases

  Japan's peak legal organisation has condemned the execution of three men yesterday, and called for reform of the country's justice system to prevent innocent people being sentenced to death.The Asahi Shimbun reported that three men were hanged on Thu...

• Urgent move to stop executions in Japan

  Posted on Tuesday August 7th, 2007 at 11:56 pm in secrecy executions hangings capital cases

  Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal to try to stop three men from the gallows in Japan tomorrow.The organisation believes Takezawa Hifumi (born 1937), Segawa Kouzou (born 1947) and Iwamoto Yoshio (born 1945) may be hanged as soon as 9 A...

• China executes drug regulator

  Posted on Thursday July 12th, 2007 at 08:41 am in corruption executions capital cases economic crimes

  The former head of China's drug regulator was executed last Tuesday (10 July) for receiving bribes and approving fake drugs, according to state-run Xinhua newsagency.Zheng Xiaoyu, who was director of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), wa...

• Japan hangs three 'to keep numbers down'

  Posted on Sunday April 29th, 2007 at 06:27 am in executions hangings

  Japan hanged three men on Friday, bringing to seven the number of prisoners it has executed in the past four months.The latest executions were reportedly carried out now to keep the country's death row population below 100.Kosaku Nata , Yoshikatsu Od...

• Indonesia: Convicted murderer shot

  Posted on Sunday April 29th, 2007 at 05:47 am in indonesia murder executions firing squad

  Indonesia yesterday executed a man for murdering a family of six in February 1999.It was the fourteenth reported execution in Indonesia since 1995.Ayub Bulubili, 40, was shot by firing squad at 1:30am on Saturday at a shooting range in Central Kalima...