Unofficial sources report that Aleksey Ivanovich Volkov, an ethnic Russian aged 28, was sentenced to death in Latvia on 11 September 1991. He had been convicted of murder. He is said to have pleaded guilty but it is also alleged that he has a history of mental illness which was not taken into...
Seventeen people under sentence of death in South Africa are in danger of execution following a government announcement on 22 March 1992 that it had decided not to commute their death sentences.