Death Penalty News June 1999

Index Number: ACT 53/003/1999
Date Published: 31 May 1999

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 and Tobago; 5. News in brief; 6. Book review: La pena di morte nel mondo, Rapporto 1999 by Hands Off Cain.