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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- FEBRUARY 26, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
At Florida State Prison, Amos King, maintaining his...
At Florida State Prison, Amos King, maintaining his innocence to the end, was executed by lethal injection for the rape and murder of Natalie "Tillie" Brady, 68, in March 1977
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Richard Head Williams was executed for killing, on...
Richard Head Williams was executed for killing, on March 24, 1997, Jeanette Williams, 44, a wheelchair-bound woman
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced 11 Islamic...
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced 11 Islamic militants to death and jailed 74 of their comrades after finding them guilty of murder and kidnapping
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranian armed robbers were hanged, two on February...
Three Iranian armed robbers were hanged, two on February 24 in the south-western city of Ahwaz, and one in Tehran on February 16, Iranian newspapers reported
- FEBRUARY 25, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for murdering...
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a motorbike taxi driver in the central province of Lam Dong
- FEBRUARY 24, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four drug traffickers were executed by firing squad...
Four drug traffickers were executed by firing squad in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, court officials said
- FEBRUARY 23, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Montagnard Foundation website reported the torture...
The Montagnard Foundation website reported the torture and execution of a Degar Montagnard Christian by Vietnamese police
- FEBRUARY 22, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Chandrasekar, 46, was sentenced to death by a fast...
Chandrasekar, 46, was sentenced to death by a fast track court after being convicted of beheaded his son, Shanmugam, with a hacksaw on September 3, 2001, following a quarrel over the latter's inability to find a job
- FEBRUARY 22, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
According to a statement issued by the Kurdistan Revolutionary...
According to a statement issued by the Kurdistan Revolutionary Union Party, in Sulaymaniyah the Islamic Republic of Iran executed the Sasan Ali Kan'an in prison in the city of Sinah
- FEBRUARY 21, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Six drug traffickers were sentenced to death in southern...
Six drug traffickers were sentenced to death in southern Vietnam as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade
- FEBRUARY 20, 2003SamoaDEATH PENALTY
A senior Samoan justice department official said that...
A senior Samoan justice department official said that the brutal rape and murder of a five-year-old girl had been hijacked by the on-going debate on whether or not to execute the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Women confront death with "nerves of steel" while men...
Women confront death with "nerves of steel" while men often collapse with fear, Saudi Arabia's most senior executioner was reported as saying
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The lower house voted 288-60 to change Thailand's long-standing...
The lower house voted 288-60 to change Thailand's long-standing execution method to lethal injections, arguing they are less painful and cruel than shooting prisoners with a machine gun
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Zambia sentenced Gibson Zimba, a...
The High Court in Zambia sentenced Gibson Zimba, a former aide of ex-president Frederick Chiluba, to death by hanging for the murder of three teachers
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Warders and their bosses at Papua New Guinea's Bomana...
Warders and their bosses at Papua New Guinea's Bomana prison don't want to be the ones to hang a convicted killer
- FEBRUARY 15, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of tribesmen stoned to death a man after he...
Hundreds of tribesmen stoned to death a man after he allegedly killed his rival over a land dispute
- FEBRUARY 13, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan prison officers urged the government to abolish...
Ugandan prison officers urged the government to abolish the death penalty and forwarded their proposals to end capital punishment to a commission reviewing the East African nation's constitution, a prisons service spokeswoman said
- FEBRUARY 13, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Bobby Joe Fields was executed
In McAlester, Bobby Joe Fields was executed
- FEBRUARY 12, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
In Lucasville, Richard E
In Lucasville, Richard E
- FEBRUARY 11, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in...
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in the past 16 years and another 208 Tibetans are in detention awaiting the same fate, a human rights group said
- FEBRUARY 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in...
China has executed 81 Tibetan political prisoners in the past 16 years and another 208 Tibetans are in detention awaiting the same fate, a human rights group said
- FEBRUARY 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A blind, bedridden widow is taking on the might of...
A blind, bedridden widow is taking on the might of the Chinese Government in an effort to halt "executions on demand"
- FEBRUARY 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A study by the Law Commission on the barbarity involved...
A study by the Law Commission on the barbarity involved in methods of execution recommended that India replace hanging with lethal injection
- FEBRUARY 6, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Henry Dunn Jr
Henry Dunn Jr
- FEBRUARY 5, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
Kenneth Kenley was executed by injection early today...
Kenneth Kenley was executed by injection early today in the Potosi Correctional Center
- FEBRUARY 4, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of two Tibetans, one executed and another...
Relatives of two Tibetans, one executed and another jailed for alleged roles in a series of bombings in western China, say the Chinese government banned them from talking about the case in public, the US-based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported
- JANUARY 30, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, Granville Riddle was executed
In Huntsville, Granville Riddle was executed
- JANUARY 30, 2003MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Maryland Attorney General J
Maryland Attorney General J
- JANUARY 30, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged four gangsters in public after they were...
Iran hanged four gangsters in public after they were convicted for a series of kidnappings and rapes, the official IRNA news agency reported
- JANUARY 29, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Richard Dinkins was executed tonight in Huntsville
Richard Dinkins was executed tonight in Huntsville