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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- MAY 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yuan Xiuzhen, a 46 year old woman, and three men, Hu...
Yuan Xiuzhen, a 46 year old woman, and three men, Hu Aizhong, Yang Pinwu and Chen Shibin were executed in Beijing after being convicted of violent crime, including murder and armed robbery
- MAY 16, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Minh Cong, 31, convicted of trafficking 1
Tran Minh Cong, 31, convicted of trafficking 1
- MAY 16, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Chu Van Hoc, 33, was executed by firing squad in Hanoi
Chu Van Hoc, 33, was executed by firing squad in Hanoi
- MAY 16, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Newton Carlton Slawson, convicted of killing 4 members...
Newton Carlton Slawson, convicted of killing 4 members of a family and a fetus, was executed by injection after a 13-hour delay while his mental competency was questioned
- MAY 15, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
An independent expert body that monitors how countries...
An independent expert body that monitors how countries implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights found violations in five countries
- MAY 15, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
An independent expert body that monitors how countries...
An independent expert body that monitors how countries implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights found violations in five countries
- MAY 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Bruce Charles Jacobs was executed tonight
Bruce Charles Jacobs was executed tonight
- MAY 13, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Toai, a 64-year-old Vietnamese man from...
Nguyen Van Toai, a 64-year-old Vietnamese man from Nghe An province near the Lao border was sentenced to death by firing squad after being convicted of opium trafficking
- MAY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Hussein Turkzadeh, alias Hossein Balouch, was executed...
Hussein Turkzadeh, alias Hossein Balouch, was executed in Kerman for murdering nine people, including his 16-year-old wife, and drug trafficking, a few years after escaping while serving a 25-year jail sentence for drug offences
- MAY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two fellow Iranians...
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two fellow Iranians with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as well as three counts of rape, was beheaded with a sword in the south-eastern province of Sistan Baluchestan bordering Pakistan
- MAY 9, 2003NepalDEATH PENALTY
Kioual Man Limbou, a Nepalese man convicted of murder,...
Kioual Man Limbou, a Nepalese man convicted of murder, was publicly beheaded by sword in Saudi Arabia
- MAY 9, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Kioual Man Limbou, a Nepalese man convicted of murder,...
Kioual Man Limbou, a Nepalese man convicted of murder, was publicly beheaded by sword in Saudi Arabia
- MAY 8, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Three people were sentenced to hang in Trinidad and...
Three people were sentenced to hang in Trinidad and Tobago for the 1996 murder of Clint Huggins, a former state's witness in a much-publicized murder trial
- MAY 6, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Roger Dale Vaughn, 48, was executed for strangling...
Roger Dale Vaughn, 48, was executed for strangling and raping Dora Watkins, 66, on Oct
- MAY 3, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer...
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said that the Bali bombers should not be executed for the nightclub attacks which killed more than 200 people
- MAY 3, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer...
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said that the Bali bombers should not be executed for the nightclub attacks which killed more than 200 people
- MAY 2, 2003IndianaDEATH PENALTY
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- APRIL 29, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
At the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville,...
At the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, David Brewer, 44, was executed for kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing Sherry Byrne, 21, on March 21, 1985
- APRIL 29, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight criminals, convicted of charges including robbery...
Eight criminals, convicted of charges including robbery and murder, were executed in the Chinese capital of Beijing
- APRIL 28, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations and an Afghan human rights group...
The United Nations and an Afghan human rights group accused fighters in northwestern Afghanistan of violating human rights during clashes in March, including the execution of 26 people whose bodies were found with their hands tied
- APRIL 27, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In its consultation paper on the execution of the death...
In its consultation paper on the execution of the death penalty for prisoners, the Law Commission of India said that causing death by lethal injection was simple to execute
- APRIL 26, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese court sentenced 24 members of a tribe to...
A Sudanese court sentenced 24 members of a tribe to death by hanging for killing 35 people during a raid on a village in western Sudan in 2002, the privately owned Akhbar al-Youm newspaper reported
- APRIL 24, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Gary Leon Brown, 44, was executed by injection for...
Gary Leon Brown, 44, was executed by injection for the 1986 stabbing death of Jack David McGraw, 60, during a robbery
- APRIL 23, 2003YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah al-Nashri, a Yemeni man who killed three nuns...
Abdullah al-Nashri, a Yemeni man who killed three nuns from Mother Theresa's order, was executed by firing squad
- APRIL 22, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Juan Rodriguez Chavez was executed inside the Huntsville...
Juan Rodriguez Chavez was executed inside the Huntsville "Walls" Unit
- APRIL 17, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
- APRIL 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people than any other country in...
China executed more people than any other country in 2002, two-thirds of the known world total of 1,500, and many of those cases violated international law, the human rights group Amnesty International said
- APRIL 9, 2003VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
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In Jarratt, maintaining his innocence to the end, Earl C
- APRIL 8, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, died at 6:07 p
Don Wilson Hawkins, 43, died at 6:07 p
- APRIL 3, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Montagnard Foundation (MFI) accused Vietnam of...
The Montagnard Foundation (MFI) accused Vietnam of having executed three members of a Protestant church in the Central Highlands and said others were arrested in several security operations