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 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 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
In Jarratt, maintaining his innocence to the end, Earl C
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, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Scott Allen Hain was executed for burning...
In McAlester, Scott Allen Hain was executed for burning Michael Houghton, 27, and Laura Lee Sanders, 22, alive in a car trunk in 1987, when he was 17
- 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
- APRIL 2, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
"In their latest crime against the peoples of Iraq,...
"In their latest crime against the peoples of Iraq, the dictatorial Iraqi regime has shot 96 soldiers
- APRIL 1, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The April issue of the Women in Iran magazine reported...
The April issue of the Women in Iran magazine reported that the death sentence issued on October 26, 2002 to a man who beheaded his daughter was commuted to three years imprisonment
- MARCH 29, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi man was beheaded after he was convicted of...
A Saudi man was beheaded after he was convicted of murdering a compatriot, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement
- MARCH 27, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese man, Nong Quoc Luong, 25, convicted of...
A Vietnamese man, Nong Quoc Luong, 25, convicted of murdering a friend to steal his motorcycle was blindfolded, tied to a stake and executed by firing squad in Hanoi
- MARCH 26, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Regional Court in Brno, Czech Republic, decided...
The Regional Court in Brno, Czech Republic, decided not extradite Chinese citizen Wen-min Zhang to China on fears he could be executed
- MARCH 25, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, John Michael Hooker was executed for...
In McAlester, John Michael Hooker was executed for stabbing his girlfriend Sylvia Stokes, 28, and her mother Drusilla Morgan, 53, on March 27, 1988
- MARCH 23, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Seven members of Iraq's ruling Ba'th Party were executed...
Seven members of Iraq's ruling Ba'th Party were executed on the order of President Saddam Hussein's cousin and the commander in the south, Ali Hasan al-Majid