This document covers significant events concerning the death penalty during the year 2004. Five countries abolished the death penalty for all crimes, bringing to ...
1.) Abolition in Samoa and Bhutan; 80 countries now fully abolitionist; 2.) Increase in co-sponsors for UN death penalty resolution; 3.) New UN report; 4.) Death ...
This report examines developments in the application of the death penalty in Papua New Guinea, in the context of those in some other South Pacific states.
1. Call for worldwide moratorium gains momentum; 2. All death sentences commuted in Russia; 3. Special Rapporteur calls for tighter safeguards; 4. Hangings in Trinidad ...
1. South Korea: Amnesty International puts human rights on the agenda of President's European meetings. 2. Western Samoa: Sedition charges against political leaders ...
Sesela Mato Afoa was sentenced to death in March 1994 for taking part in the murder of Nuutai Fatiala Mafulu on 25 September 1993 in the village of Lona, Fagaloa ...