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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- APRIL 23, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at...
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution, Jason Scott Byram, 38, was executed at 6:15 p
- APRIL 20, 2004AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the...
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the fall of the Taliban, putting a bullet to the head of Abdullah Shah, a former military commander convicted of more than 20 murders
- APRIL 18, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
A man named as Mehdi, 25, was hanged in Rezvanshahr, Iran
A man named as Mehdi, 25, was hanged in Rezvanshahr, Iran
- APRIL 16, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Gnanaprakasham, Simon, M
Gnanaprakasham, Simon, M
- APRIL 16, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Jerry McWee was put to death for killing John Perry,...
Jerry McWee was put to death for killing John Perry, a store clerk before stealing $350 from the cash register
- APRIL 13, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The wives of four bandits due to be hanged in Bangalore,...
The wives of four bandits due to be hanged in Bangalore, southern India, on April 16, were pinning their hopes on a last-minute presidential pardon, the women told AFP
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal,...
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing his brother in law Sabir Shah in Okara on October 30, 1994
- APRIL 9, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thi Ha , a Vietnamese woman convicted of trafficking...
Nguyen Thi Ha , a Vietnamese woman convicted of trafficking drug, was executed by firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City
- APRIL 9, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Lai Changxing, the alleged mastermind of a vast Chinese...
Lai Changxing, the alleged mastermind of a vast Chinese smuggling ring who said he faced execution if expelled to China was denied asylum in Canada
- APRIL 9, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lai Changxing, the alleged mastermind of a vast Chinese...
Lai Changxing, the alleged mastermind of a vast Chinese smuggling ring who said he faced execution if expelled to China was denied asylum in Canada
- APRIL 8, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eleven convicted criminals were executed in China after...
Eleven convicted criminals were executed in China after being paraded in a stadium where the rejections of their appeals were publicly read out
- MARCH 31, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia, which implements strict Islamic sharia...
Saudi Arabia, which implements strict Islamic sharia law, executed Jarwan bin Hamad bin Marhan al-Abdan, a Saudi man, for smuggling drugs into the kingdom
- MARCH 31, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that China executed two men extradited...
It was reported that China executed two men extradited from neighboring Kyrgyzstan who were convicted of murdering a Chinese diplomat and his driver in the Central Asian country
- MARCH 31, 2004CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of...
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of Vietnamese origin, was executed in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for belonging to a methamphetamine manufacturing and trafficking network
- MARCH 31, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of...
Nguyen Ngoc Tam, a 47-year-old Cambodian national of Vietnamese origin, was executed in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for belonging to a methamphetamine manufacturing and trafficking network
- MARCH 31, 2004VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Mitchell Orbe was executed by injection tonight at...
Mitchell Orbe was executed by injection tonight at Greensville Correctional Center for the Jan
- MARCH 30, 2004OhioDEATH PENALTY
In the Southern Ohio Correctional near Lucasville,...
In the Southern Ohio Correctional near Lucasville, William Dean Wicklines was executed today
- MARCH 28, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saddam Hussein will hang, the British envoy to Iraq,...
Saddam Hussein will hang, the British envoy to Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, predicted as he left the country
- MARCH 26, 2004NevadaDEATH PENALTY
Lawrence Colwell Jr
Lawrence Colwell Jr
- MARCH 24, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's...
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's Grim Parade Of Death" published in the Australian pubilcation 'The Age'
- MARCH 24, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's...
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's Grim Parade Of Death" published in the Australian pubilcation 'The Age'
- MARCH 23, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Hung Thanh Le, the Vietnamese refugee...
In McAlester, Hung Thanh Le, the Vietnamese refugee was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- MARCH 21, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 20, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 20, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore authorities hanged Yen May Woen, a 37 year...
Singapore authorities hanged Yen May Woen, a 37 year old woman convicted of heroin trafficking, in the city-state's first drug execution in 2004
- MARCH 19, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at...
In Columbia, at the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution, David Clayton Hill died by lethal injection
- MARCH 18, 2004VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Brian Lee Cherrix, 30, volunteer, convicted of killing...
Brian Lee Cherrix, 30, volunteer, convicted of killing 23-year-old Tessa Van Hart in 1994, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center at 9:10 p
- MARCH 15, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China sentences to death and immediately executes around...
China sentences to death and immediately executes around 10,000 convicted criminals every year, according to Chen Zhonglin, a delegate who was seeking to curb the practice at China's parliamentary session