51.   Observers were stunned that the junta would uphold the sentences just as the Commonwealth summit got under way in Auckland, New Zealand.

52.   One of the five judges on the appeals court panel dissented, saying he wanted the original sentence upheld.

53.   Sentences also were upheld for eight co-defendants.

54.   She said her husband told her last week during their first meeting in a year that if his sentence was upheld he would appeal to a higher court.

55.   Should the high court uphold the sentence, the case still goes to the Philippine president, who has the power to approve the execution or pardon the convict.

56.   The appeals court upheld the sentences but said there was room for further appeal, said al-Jumhuriyya, a government newspaper.

57.   Texas Attorney General John Cornyn is confident the death sentence will be upheld.

58.   Tarar also has upheld a sentence that called for the amputation of a hand and foot of a thief in line with Islamic punishments.

59.   The appeals court upheld the sentences but said another appeal had been filed, according to al-Jumhuriyya, a government newspaper.

60.   The appeals court upheld the sentences of Nordstroem, imprisoned for six years, and four other defendants, and reduced the sentences of another two.