Article: Parliamentary Committee sends draft law on Kyrgyzstan's signature of 2nd optional protocol abolishing death penalty to Parliament.

Article: JAPAN: PROPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY FACE CRITICISM ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... explicit advocacy of the death penalty was especially significant ... global trend toward death penalty abolition. A week earlier ... sign of wavering on the death penalty issue when he addressed a parliamentary committee. His only unease appeared ...

Article: JAPAN: PROPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY FACE CRITICISM ...
Interpress Service;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... explicit advocacy of the death penalty was especially significant ... global trend toward death penalty abolition. A week earlier ... sign of wavering on the death penalty issue when he addressed a parliamentary committee. His only unease appeared ...

Article: Pressure Grows In Kyrgyzstan For Return Of Death ...
Times of Central Asia;  November 16, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... country to suspend the death penalty, is now considering ... a decade since the death penalty was suspended, an attempt by a parliamentary committee last week to add Kyrgyzstan ... reinstatement of the death penalty, pointing to the portrayal ...

Article: Ban urged to cut death penalty risk.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  June 26, 2008 ;     463 words ... ... Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A parliamentary committee in Australia wants Australians protected from the death penalty overseas. The cross-party Treaties ... another nation if it leads to the death penalty. However, this can be over ...

Article: South Korean justice minister opposes abolishing death ...
AP Worldstream;  March 29, 2005 ;     285 words ... ... lawmakers to abolish the death penalty. "If one deprives ... the price." A parliamentary committee is considering a ... replacing the death penalty with a more strictly ... penalty than the death penalty because the convicted ...

Article: Tajik president proposes draft law introducing moratorium on ...
AP Worldstream;  May 8, 2004 ;     308 words ... ... would consider abolishing the death penalty in this former Soviet republic ... Sultonov said. He said a parliamentary committee was working on the bill ... criticized the use of the death penalty in Tajikistan, saying suspects ...

Article: Whither the death penalty?
The Weekly Gleaner;  November 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... I am against the death penalty and will do my utmost ... my hopes that the death penalty will soon be abolished ... which is now before a parliamentary committee, no act however ... death can attract the death penalty. RETROACTIVE PUNISHMENT ...