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 3, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded...
Milha Bin-Abdallah Bin-Mid'ath al-Qahtani was beheaded in Arar for murdering his wife
- MAY 2, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was...
Syed Ali Asghar Shah, a convict in a murder case was hung at Gujrat District Jail
- MAY 2, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Christina Riggs, 28, a former nurse sentenced to death...
Christina Riggs, 28, a former nurse sentenced to death for smothering her two young children was executed in Arkansas
- MAY 2, 2000ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal...
Christina Marie Riggs, 28, white was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 1, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Amir Layla Huran al-Ruwayli was executed for drug smuggling
Amir Layla Huran al-Ruwayli was executed for drug smuggling
- APRIL 28, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Koliyil Kunhi Muhammad Abdul Razaq, an Indian, was...
Koliyil Kunhi Muhammad Abdul Razaq, an Indian, was executed in Shaqraa for murdering an elderly Saudi citizen, Abdul Aziz Al-Yousuf
- APRIL 27, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald Keith Boyd, 43, black, was executed by lethal...
Ronald Keith Boyd, 43, black, was executed by lethal injection
- APRIL 26, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canada condemned Vietnam for executing Nguyen Thi Hiep,...
Canada condemned Vietnam for executing Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Vietnamese-born Canadian citizen convicted of drug trafficking, on April 24
- APRIL 26, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ge Lanzhen and Xu Ruzhen, leaders of a criminal gang...
Ge Lanzhen and Xu Ruzhen, leaders of a criminal gang of 16 people, all of them farmers from Guangnan County, Yunnan Province, were executed in Wenshan after being sentenced to death in November 1999
- APRIL 24, 2000SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese man was executed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,...
A Sudanese man was executed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after being convicted of murdering a fellow Sudanese national
- APRIL 24, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin...
Nguyen Thi Hiep, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin was executed in Hanoi, where she was arrested in 1996 for drug trafficking, a court spokesmen said
- APRIL 23, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian man was executed in Saudi Arabia after...
An Ethiopian man was executed in Saudi Arabia after he was convicted of stabbing a Sudanese man to death while the victim was sleeping
- APRIL 23, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two men were executed after they were convicted of...
Two men were executed after they were convicted of premeditated murder
- APRIL 20, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
According to some reports, 13 people were executed...
According to some reports, 13 people were executed by shooting in Khazhi-aul by Russian forces
- APRIL 19, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Reza Zohrevand, 21, was publicly hanged in Khorramabad...
Reza Zohrevand, 21, was publicly hanged in Khorramabad for murder
- APRIL 19, 2000TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Robert Glen Coe, 44, was executed by injection in...
Robert Glen Coe, 44, was executed by injection in Tennessee for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Cary Ann Medlin 21 years ago
- APRIL 14, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed...
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani who killed and robbed another man, a Saudi Interior Ministry statement said
- APRIL 12, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni man was executed in Saudi Arabia for raping...
A Yemeni man was executed in Saudi Arabia for raping several young girls and stealing their jewelery
- APRIL 12, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A murderer was executed in public by the Taliban authorities...
A murderer was executed in public by the Taliban authorities in Maimana city in Faryab province of Afghanistan
- APRIL 11, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted...
Saudi Arabia executed a Filipino who was convicted of murder, robbery and having illicit sex with an Indonesian maid
- APRIL 9, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
Chen Dequ was executed in Fuzhou
- APRIL 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in...
Kong Jia, an unemployed ex-convict was executed in Beijing for bludgeoning his parents to death with an iron bar
- APRIL 6, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Suspected paramilitary gunmen executed 21 unarmed residents...
Suspected paramilitary gunmen executed 21 unarmed residents of a small town near the Venezuelan border
- APRIL 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yang Wen, 31, was executed in Taiyuan, the capital...
Yang Wen, 31, was executed in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province for raping two university students and killing a female postgraduate student during a failed sexual assault
- APRIL 6, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan...
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan security forces had executed three of the eight Islamists that Jordanian authorities extradited to Libya in January 2000
- APRIL 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan...
A human rights committee in Britain said that the Libyan security forces had executed three of the eight Islamists that Jordanian authorities extradited to Libya in January 2000
- APRIL 5, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechen rebels said that nine members of the Russian...
Chechen rebels said that nine members of the Russian special-purpose police (OMON) from Perm were executed after the 72 hours provided to Russia for the exchange of prisoners had passed
- APRIL 5, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Estrada said that he wanted the two...
President Joseph Estrada said that he wanted the two soldiers, Marcial Ambulo and Jovy Rubio, who shot dead six innocent civilians in Mindoro Oriental, to be meted the death penalty for their crime
- APRIL 4, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Robert Lee Tarver Jr
Robert Lee Tarver Jr
- MARCH 30, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail
Mohammad Sarwar was hung in the Sahiwal Central Jail