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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- JULY 9, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man and his Yemeni accomplice...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man and his Yemeni accomplice for killing a man with a meat cleaver in a row over money
- JULY 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people from April to June 2001...
China executed more people from April to June 2001 than the rest of the world did in the past three years - 1,781 people put to death in a government campaign against crime, Amnesty International said
- JULY 6, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Khaled...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Khaled bin Nasser al-Khaledi was beheaded for abducting and raping a boy after getting drunk
- JULY 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Adnan Maleknejad, 26, convicted of murdering a man...
Adnan Maleknejad, 26, convicted of murdering a man five years ago, was hanged at dawn in the yard of a prison in Ilam in western Iran, IRNA said
- JULY 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese official admitted that 14 Falun Gong followers...
A Chinese official admitted that 14 Falun Gong followers died in a labour camp - but the government and the spiritual movement have given sharply conflicting accounts of how they died
- JULY 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xinhua news agency, the official Chinese government...
Xinhua news agency, the official Chinese government agency, denied allegations regarding organs being transplanted from executed prisoners
- JULY 4, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Pong Ketsiri, 64, was executed by a firing squad in...
Pong Ketsiri, 64, was executed by a firing squad in a Bangkok prison after being convicted of smuggling 275lb of heroin into Thailand
- JULY 4, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two Yemenis were executed separately in Lahj and Mahweet...
Two Yemenis were executed separately in Lahj and Mahweet provinces for premeditated murder, according a statement by the public prosecution
- JUNE 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight people, who were found guilty of the crimes for...
Eight people, who were found guilty of the crimes for murder, manslaughter, robbery, blackmail, kidnapping and illegally possessing weapons, were sentenced to death and executed in Chaozhou, a city in south China's Guangdong Province
- JUNE 28, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A sessions court sentenced to death two sisters who...
A sessions court sentenced to death two sisters who abducted infants from various places in Maharashtra in the 1990s, forced them to commit thefts and subsequently killed them mercilessly
- JUNE 27, 2001GermanyDEATH PENALTY
The World Court faulted the United States for violating...
The World Court faulted the United States for violating international rights of two German-born brothers executed in 1999 and ordered Washington to reconsider convictions in any similar cases
- JUNE 27, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wang Guoqi, a Chinese burn specialist seeking political...
Wang Guoqi, a Chinese burn specialist seeking political asylum in the United States said that as a physician in China, he took part in removing corneas and harvesting skin from more than 100 executed prisoners, including one who had not yet died
- JUNE 27, 2001IndianaDEATH PENALTY
Jim Lowery, 54, was executed by lethal injection
Jim Lowery, 54, was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed at least 56 people for drug crimes and...
China executed at least 56 people for drug crimes and staged mass rallies nationwide to mark a UN anti-drug day
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province...
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province held a judgment pronouncement rally at the Haikou gymnasium
- JUNE 26, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A convicted drug trafficker was executed by a firing...
A convicted drug trafficker was executed by a firing squad at the Bangkwang Maximum Security Prison, raising to six the number of drug convicts executed since Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's government took office in February
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people found guilty of abducting and selling women...
Six people found guilty of abducting and selling women were executed in Jining City, Inner Mongolia
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two drug-traffickers were executed following a court...
Two drug-traffickers were executed following a court judgment announced at a rally held in the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province
- JUNE 25, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed...
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed after being sentenced at a mass rally in the southwestern city of Chengdu on drug-related crimes
- JUNE 22, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered...
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered by the Sana'a Ripper Mohammed Adam Omar stated they were furious they had not been invited to witness the execution of her killer and that they suspect he had not been executed
- JUNE 20, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese morgue worker who was convicted of kidnapping,...
A Sudanese morgue worker who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering two female students at Sanaa University was executed
- JUNE 19, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Egyptian farm worker who was...
Saudi Arabia executed an Egyptian farm worker who was convicted of beating to death a Pakistani colleague and then setting the corpse on fire, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- JUNE 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hubei Daily reported that twenty convicts, including...
The Hubei Daily reported that twenty convicts, including murderers, were executed in Wuhan after a public sentencing rally attended by thousands of spectators
- JUNE 18, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Qasem was publicly executed in the Shindand...
Mohammad Qasem was publicly executed in the Shindand district
- JUNE 18, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of raping...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of raping and strangling to death a four-year-old girl, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- JUNE 18, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan sentenced for armed robbery, multiple rape...
An Afghan sentenced for armed robbery, multiple rape and kidnappings and terrorist activities was beheaded in public
- JUNE 18, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Thabet Abdo Saleh executed by firing squad in al-Dali...
Thabet Abdo Saleh executed by firing squad in al-Dali for killing three people
- JUNE 17, 2001KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait hanged 24 year old Qadeer Kaleeja, an Indian...
Kuwait hanged 24 year old Qadeer Kaleeja, an Indian maid, for strangling her elderly employer and stealing her jewelry