Executions
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An execution is the act by which a state puts a condemned person to death. Hands Off Cain records the cases documented by public sources: press agencies, local newspapers, human rights organisations, official statements. The figure that results is a confirmed minimum, not an estimate of the real total: several states publish no data on executions, and in some countries they are not announced even to the families.
This page collects the news on the executions recorded by the association. The totals by country and by year are in the database.
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- JUNE 25, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Dozens of drug dealers were sentenced to death in a...
Dozens of drug dealers were sentenced to death in a series of drug-related criminal cases across China as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking drew near
- JUNE 24, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian authorities stayed the hanging of Dhananjoy...
Indian authorities stayed the hanging of Dhananjoy Chatterjee in what would have been India's first execution in 15 years
- JUNE 24, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian intellectuals were leading protests against...
Indian intellectuals were leading protests against capital punishment after a hangman came out of retirement to prepare for the first execution in Calcutta for more than a decade
- JUNE 24, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three drug traffickers were executed in Wuhan, capital...
Three drug traffickers were executed in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province
- JUNE 17, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Khadijeh Shahla Jahed, the mistress of an Iranian football...
Khadijeh Shahla Jahed, the mistress of an Iranian football star, was sentenced to death for murdering the wife of her lover
- JUNE 17, 2004MarylandDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 15, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
a man named Li Pingping was executed in China for murder
a man named Li Pingping was executed in China for murder
- JUNE 11, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three convicted Hong Kong drug traffickers weere executed...
Three convicted Hong Kong drug traffickers weere executed in Shenzhen, China
- JUNE 9, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The West Bengal government was preparing for the state's...
The West Bengal government was preparing for the state's first hanging in decades
- JUNE 8, 2004OhioDEATH PENALTY
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William G
- JUNE 8, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Robert Leroy Bryan, 63, was given a lethal injection...
Robert Leroy Bryan, 63, was given a lethal injection of chemicals at the state's death chamber in McAlester for killing his aunt Mildred Inabell Bryan on Sept
- JUNE 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
For the second time the Supreme Court voided the hanging...
For the second time the Supreme Court voided the hanging sentences issued to six members of the Basij, a militant Islamic group of the Iranian regime, thought to be responsible for the murder of five people they had accused of committing "immoral" acts
- JUNE 3, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
One of Vietnam's most notorious gangsters, Truong Van...
One of Vietnam's most notorious gangsters, Truong Van Cam, better known as Nam Cam, was executed for murder and bribery along with four of his men
- JUNE 2, 2004RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan tribunals sentenced 18 people to death in 2003...
Rwandan tribunals sentenced 18 people to death in 2003 for their participation in the 1994 genocide, according to Amnesty International in a report it released the previous week on the state of human rights in the world
- JUNE 2, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
a man named Faiz Bakhsh was hanged in Pakistan for murder
a man named Faiz Bakhsh was hanged in Pakistan for murder
- JUNE 1, 2004TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The Church was fighting for the abolition of the death...
The Church was fighting for the abolition of the death penalty in Taiwan, cardinal Paul Shan said in an interview for the Catholic press agency Fides
- MAY 28, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at...
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution, James Neil Tucker, 47, was executed for the deaths of Rosa Lee Oakley and Shannon Mellon, in 1992
- MAY 26, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In the Florida State Prison near Starke, John Blackwelder,...
In the Florida State Prison near Starke, John Blackwelder, 49, executed
- MAY 18, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Kelsey Patterson, 50, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic,...
Kelsey Patterson, 50, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, was executed this evening as Gov
- MAY 13, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran...
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iranian dailies reported
- MAY 11, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that three people were put to death...
It was reported that three people were put to death at dawn in Vietnam at the Cau Nga execution site in the capital's Tu Liem district
- MAY 11, 2004ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Zambian lawyer Kelvin Hang'andu was seeking to abolish...
Zambian lawyer Kelvin Hang'andu was seeking to abolish the death penalty in Zambia
- MAY 10, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Ershad Shikder was hanged till death in Khulna jail,...
Ershad Shikder was hanged till death in Khulna jail, Bangladesh, at one minute past midnight between May 10 and 11
- MAY 4, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a man was hanged in public at 8 am Sunday
a man was hanged in public at 8 am Sunday
- MAY 4, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran daily reported that a prisoner, 43, was hanged
Iran daily reported that a prisoner, 43, was hanged
- MAY 2, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the Jomhouri-Islami reported that Hassan Pirdadeh Piranvand was hanged in public
the Jomhouri-Islami reported that Hassan Pirdadeh Piranvand was hanged in public
- MAY 2, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a prisoner, named Abolghassem, was hanged in Salman Farsi Street
a prisoner, named Abolghassem, was hanged in Salman Farsi Street
- MAY 1, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Prince Fahd bin Nayef, a minor Saudi prince aged 19,...
Prince Fahd bin Nayef, a minor Saudi prince aged 19, was saved from the executioner's sword by a last-minute pardon by the father of the teenager he murdered
- APRIL 29, 2004St. Kitts & NevisDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Hazel, convicted of killing millionaire Briton...
Joseph Hazel, convicted of killing millionaire Briton Tony Fetherston in January 2000 in the garden of his home in Basseterre, the capital of St Kitts, was sentenced to death by hanging
- APRIL 27, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
two Iranian men named Zolfali Derebalai and Ali Derebalai were hanged
two Iranian men named Zolfali Derebalai and Ali Derebalai were hanged