Chronological archive
May 1999
The 62 news items published by Hands Off Cain in May 1999, in chronological order.
On May 31, a Saudi man was executed in the Qassim region...
On May 31, a Saudi man was executed in the Qassim region for murdering his wife
- MAY 31, 1999TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
On May 31, at the opening of the trial to which only...
On May 31, at the opening of the trial to which only 12 international observers and very few journalists were admitted, Ocalan urged PKK guerrillas to lay down their arms and to declare that they were prepared to serve the Turkish State
- MAY 31, 1999Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
On May 31, the Colombo High Court sentenced 3 Sri Lankans,...
On May 31, the Colombo High Court sentenced 3 Sri Lankans, Basil Mendis, Chaminda Kumara and Ajith Fernando, all in their early twenties, to death for the rape and murder of Rita Manoharan, killed last October
- MAY 30, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On May 30, the Permanent Military Court, headed by Brig
On May 30, the Permanent Military Court, headed by Brig
- MAY 29, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 29, Sergio A
On May 29, Sergio A
- MAY 28, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 28, a Nigerian woman and an Indian were beheaded...
On May 28, a Nigerian woman and an Indian were beheaded for smuggling cocaine and heroin
- MAY 28, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 28, an Indian was beheaded in Rjad, Saudi Arabia,...
On May 28, an Indian was beheaded in Rjad, Saudi Arabia, for smuggling cocaine and heroin
- MAY 27, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 27, President Kuchma said he doubted that the...
On May 27, President Kuchma said he doubted that the country's Parliament would vote to abolish capital punishment
- MAY 26, 1999OmanDEATH PENALTY
On May 26, the Oman police arrested a gang of drug...
On May 26, the Oman police arrested a gang of drug smugglers and seized 600kg of hashish
- MAY 26, 1999KentuckyDEATH PENALTY
Double murderer Eddie Harper, who after 16 years on...
Double murderer Eddie Harper, who after 16 years on death row said he preferred death over life, was executed by injection on May 26
- MAY 25, 1999BurundiDEATH PENALTY
On May 25, 11 people were summarily executed in Ruziba,...
On May 25, 11 people were summarily executed in Ruziba, in the province of Bujumbura
- MAY 25, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 25, 23 people convicted of crimes including...
On May 25, 23 people convicted of crimes including armed robbery and embezzlement, were executed
- MAY 22, 1999United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
On May 22, the Cassation Court said it would hand down...
On May 22, the Cassation Court said it would hand down a final ruling on May 29 in the case of a Canadian sentenced to death for drug dealing
- MAY 20, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 20, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council...
On May 20, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to recommend that the Assembly should suspend the credentials of the Ukrainian delegation because Ukraine did not respect its commitments on the death penalty
- MAY 18, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, President Kuchma said at a meeting with...
On May 18, President Kuchma said at a meeting with teachers and students of the Institute for Foreign Relations at Kiev National University that "he will never agree" to replacing the death penalty for Onopriyenko with life imprisonment
- MAY 18, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, according to Iranian human rights organizations,...
On May 18, according to Iranian human rights organizations, 3 men identified as Namdar, Faraj and Mojtaba were hanged in Qsar prison in Tehran
- MAY 18, 1999YemenDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, Yahya Ali al-Hakim, his sons Amer and Qassem...
On May 18, Yahya Ali al-Hakim, his sons Amer and Qassem and their cousins Ismail and Yayha al-Hakim were publicly executed
- MAY 18, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 18, Jiangxi Ye Xiaojun, who killed a policeman...
On May 18, Jiangxi Ye Xiaojun, who killed a policeman during a robbery on March 31, was executed in Jingdezhen City
- MAY 14, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in the Riyad Region, for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a large cleaver on his head and other parts of his body d
- MAY 14, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, two Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh...
On May 14, two Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, and an Indian, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, were executed for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, Indian, was executed...
On May 14, Mazhar Hasan Anwar, Indian, was executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and...
On May 14, 2 Pakistanis, Ashraf Ali Qadir Bakhsh and Shushi Muhammad Taln, were executed in Saudi Arabia for drug offenses
- MAY 14, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was...
On May 14, Obon John Khok Kroad, a Thai national, was executed in the town of Ha'ir, in Riyad Region of Saudi Arabia for killing his Saudi sponsor, Milhim Bin Sa'ud Bin Milhim Bin al-Subay'i, by bringing down a larger cleaver on his head and other parts o
- MAY 14, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's...
On May 14, the Higher People's Court of northeast China's Liaoning Province sentenced 4 persons to death for murdering Li Xianying, the secretary of the Party Committee of Liaoning's Fushun County
- MAY 13, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan...
On May 13, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan sentenced to death 2 gang leaders, Yusufali Salohov and M
- MAY 13, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On 13 May, according to the local press, Abbas Afradeh,...
On 13 May, according to the local press, Abbas Afradeh, 18 years, was hanged from a crane in public in Bandar Abbas, accused of being a sympathizer of the Mojahedin of the Iranian People
- MAY 13, 1999PakistanDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the...
On May 13, Mohammed Saleem was re-arrested for the same crime for which he had been condemned to death in December 1998 and subsequently released in January 1999
- MAY 13, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being...
On May 13, 15 criminals were executed, after being found guilty of several murders and given death sentences by the military tribunal
- MAY 12, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 12, at least 9 high officials, including the...
On May 12, at least 9 high officials, including the director of Customs at the city of Zhanjiang, were executed in one of the biggest corruption cases
- MAY 12, 1999VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 12, Governor James Gilmore granted his first...
On May 12, Governor James Gilmore granted his first clemency in a capital case after 21 executions to Calvin Swann
- MAY 11, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, the Supreme Court confirmed death sentences...
On May 11, the Supreme Court confirmed death sentences for two Sri Lankans, Murugan, and T
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- MAY 11, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, the newspaper Neshat published a statement...
On May 11, the newspaper Neshat published a statement by 325 political and cultural figures, asking the President of Iran for "the public trial of those who have masterminded, organized, planned and perpetrated these horrendous crimes," referring to the m
- MAY 11, 1999KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines...
On May 11, Alex Gerengan Second Secretary of the Philippines embassy announced that a Kuwaiti court had sentenced Danilo Espino, a Filipino Christian citizen, to death on May 10 for killing his Muslim girlfriend Rocaya S
- MAY 10, 1999UgandaDEATH PENALTY
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...
On May 10, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of international affairs, Alfred Mubanda, received the Norwegian ambassador to Uganda, Arild Oyen, who expressed the same views on the execution of the 28 condemned prisoners as the other memb
- MAY 9, 1999LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 9, Samuel Kofi Woods the former Catholic Justice...
On May 9, Samuel Kofi Woods the former Catholic Justice and Peace [CJP] director said the case of the 13 treason convicts is a test to national commitment to reconciliation and, recalling the execution of 13 former government officials in 1980, said histo
- MAY 8, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd...
On May 8, Manal Abd al Qabel and his lover Bakr Abd al Fattah Mohammad al Kumi were executed in the prison of Tanta in Basse Egypt
- MAY 8, 1999FloridaDEATH PENALTY
On May 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in the...
On May 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in the case of Keith Brennan that the execution of a defendant who was 16 years old at the time of his crime would be unconstitutional
- MAY 7, 1999CyprusDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on behalf...
On May 7, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on behalf of Cyprus signed Protocol No
- MAY 7, 1999SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Zlatko Aleksovski was found guilty by the...
On May 7, Zlatko Aleksovski was found guilty by the ICTY by virtue of both his individual and superior criminal responsibility on one count of a violation of the laws or customs of war, and sentenced to 2 years' and 6 months' imprisonment by Trial Chamber
- MAY 7, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission...
On May 7, Gerardo Sanchez Santa Cruz of the Cuban "Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation" in Havana disclosed that the Cuban Government had executed 10 criminals by firing squad in the previous 3 months and has sentenced 5 more to death
- MAY 6, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On May 6, according to Rahe Kargar, the organization...
On May 6, according to Rahe Kargar, the organization of the revolutionary workers of Iran, 4 men were executed in Sanandaj for drug trafficking
- MAY 6, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On May 6, 20 soldiers were executed in Lubumbashi for...
On May 6, 20 soldiers were executed in Lubumbashi for military offenses
- MAY 5, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On May 5, UK Foreign Office Minister Derek Fatchett...
On May 5, UK Foreign Office Minister Derek Fatchett during a visit to Jordan said that reports of recent executions and Shiite unrest were signs of President Saddam Hussein's weakening grip on power
- MAY 4, 1999CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
On May 4, California also executed Manuel Babbitt,...
On May 4, California also executed Manuel Babbitt, a former Marine who had been given one of the country's highest medals for bravery
- MAY 3, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On May 3, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said the...
On May 3, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said the Government should consider the death sentence for atrocities against women
- MAY 3, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On May 3, a Chinese court sentenced 2 people to death...
On May 3, a Chinese court sentenced 2 people to death in the southeastern province of Jiangsu for smuggling metal and evading duties totaling 130 million yuan ($16 million)
- MAY 1, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
In May, a court's military collegium ruled the death...
In May, a court's military collegium ruled the death penalty for police Colonel Asatullo Shomatov, deputy chief of Dushanbe's interior directorate
- MAY 1, 1999United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
In May, The UK ratified Protocol No
In May, The UK ratified Protocol No
- MAY 1, 1999South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
In a seminar on the death penalty held in May, the...
In a seminar on the death penalty held in May, the Committee for Justice and Peace, which is under the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea, kicked off a lengthy war against capital punishment
- MAY 1, 1999NepalDEATH PENALTY
On May 1, Nepal completely abolished the death penalty,...
On May 1, Nepal completely abolished the death penalty, after being abolitionist for ordinary crimes since 1990
- MAY 1, 1999TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
In May, Guangdong and Fujian public security forces...
In May, Guangdong and Fujian public security forces cracked 7 cases involving the smuggling of fake bank notes from 1995 to last year, while arresting 12 Taiwanese suspects and seizing 3 vessels
- MAY 1, 1999VietnamDEATH PENALTY
In May, Justice Minister Nguyen Dinh Loc presented...
In May, Justice Minister Nguyen Dinh Loc presented to the National Assembly (NA) the draft of the amended Penal Code containing new offenses arising from the market economy
- MAY 1, 1999Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
In May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council...
In May, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council refused to grant petitioners, Nankissoon Boodram, also called Dole Chadee, and 8 others, special leave to appeal the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago on May 16, 1999, upholding the
- MAY 1, 1999United StatesDEATH PENALTY
In May, 1999, the state of Illinois exonerated convicted...
In May, 1999, the state of Illinois exonerated convicted murderer Ronald Jones, the 3rd person freed from Illinois' death row in 1999, and the 12th since 1987
- MAY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In May, it was also reported that China had extended...
In May, it was also reported that China had extended its nationwide campaign against tax evasion to e-commerce
- MAY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
In May, "Old Sparky," the electric chair that Florida...
In May, "Old Sparky," the electric chair that Florida has used to execute 237 men and one woman since 1923, was retired
- MAY 1, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
In May, Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox and Jewish...
In May, Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox and Jewish leaders filed a petition asking the Illinois Supreme Court to impose a halt on executions until the death penalty process could be studied to find possible flaws
- MAY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
In May, two foreign lawmakers - Kevin McNamara, a Labor...
In May, two foreign lawmakers - Kevin McNamara, a Labor Party member of the British Parliament, and Usman Santi, a Labor Party member of the Dutch Parliament - campaigned against New Hampshire's death penalty
- MAY 1, 1999DEATH PENALTY
In May, a delegation composed of three MPs - David...
In May, a delegation composed of three MPs - David Pratt (Liberal, Nepean-Carleton, Ontario), Richard Marceau (Bloc Quebecois, Charlesbourg, Quebec), Peter Mancini (NDP, Sydney-Victoria, Nova Scotia) - came to Texas and met with a number of state official
- MAY 1, 1999PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
In May, several state senators, encouraged by the vote...
In May, several state senators, encouraged by the vote in the Nebraska legislature to suspend executions for two years, urged Pennsylvania to adopt a similar measure and commission a study on whether condemned prisoners receive adequate legal counsel and
- MAY 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In May, it was reported that City People's Court in...
In May, it was reported that City People's Court in Xinjiang sentenced Wang Chengbo to death, Liu Weishan to death with a 2-year reprieve, and Li Long to life imprisonment on charges of murder and kidnapping on July 17, 1998