Archive timeline
1999
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 1999, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 1999
- APRIL 3, 1999North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, it was announced that over 750 public executions...
On April 3, it was announced that over 750 public executions had been carried out between 1995 and 1998 as part of a campaign to repress the criminality engendered by the country's economic crisis
- APRIL 3, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, a court ordered the hanging of Talaat Abdel-Mawgoud,...
On April 3, a court ordered the hanging of Talaat Abdel-Mawgoud, 27, a man who confessed to abducting in January a 3-year-old girl, and repeatedly raped her during more than two months of captivity
- APRIL 3, 1999North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, Bishop F
On April 3, Bishop F
- APRIL 3, 1999TexasDEATH PENALTY
On April 3, Bishop John McCarthy of Austin joined...
On April 3, Bishop John McCarthy of Austin joined 55 American Catholic bishops that issued a Good Friday call for the nation's more than 60 million Catholics to oppose the death penalty in the United States
- APRIL 3, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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On April 3, the No
- APRIL 2, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian...
On April 2, Hiwat Shenkuta Shine, a 24-year-old Ethiopian woman confessed to killing her newborn baby by throwing him from a 7th-floor apartment in Sidon at the end of March
- APRIL 2, 1999United StatesDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops for...
On April 2, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops for the first time made opposition to the death penalty an urgent priority, addressing the disparity between Catholics who tend to support capital punishment and their Pope, who strongly opposes it
- APRIL 2, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On April 2, a Beijing court sentenced to death Ma Ke,...
On April 2, a Beijing court sentenced to death Ma Ke, 18, and Jiang Tao, 46, for stabbing Zou Jingmeng to death in the city's western Haidian district on February 22
- APRIL 1, 1999OmanDEATH PENALTY
In April, according to a royal decree, Oman introduced...
In April, according to a royal decree, Oman introduced the death penalty for drug traffickers and users in a move mainly aimed at halting the use of the Sultanate as a trans-shipment point for drug smugglers
- APRIL 1, 1999AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
In April, Australia and Iraq were involved in an extradition...
In April, Australia and Iraq were involved in an extradition case
- APRIL 1, 1999TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents,...
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents, Rustem Mametkulov and Zaynuttin Askarov, after receiving guarantees from Tashkent that the death penalty would not be demanded for them (see: Uzbekistan)
- APRIL 1, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, the Zhytomyr Regional Court handed Anatoliy...
On April 1, the Zhytomyr Regional Court handed Anatoliy Onopriyenko the expected death sentence
- APRIL 1, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, a large number of school children in New...
On April 1, a large number of school children in New Delhi took to the streets against the spurt in violence in the capital in the past few months
- APRIL 1, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In April, the Supreme Court awarded a life term to...
In April, the Supreme Court awarded a life term to Kumudi Lal for raping and murdering a scheduled caste girl in a UP village in 1995
- APRIL 1, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
In April, it was reported that the majority of people...
In April, it was reported that the majority of people who took part in an opinion poll carried out by the all-Ukrainian political union, Yedyna Rodyna (United Family), favored the death sentence as the highest punitive measure in Ukraine
- APRIL 1, 1999Macao SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In April it was reported by Xinhua that the death penalty...
In April it was reported by Xinhua that the death penalty would not be reintroduced in post-handover Macao
- APRIL 1, 1999Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
In April, Bishop Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the...
In April, Bishop Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference said: "We appreciate the Government's interest in restoring law and order, but we are not in favor of the death penalty
- APRIL 1, 1999UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents,...
In late April, Turkey extradited two Uzbek dissidents, Rustem Mametkulov and Zaynuttin Askarov, after receiving guarantees from Tashkent that the death penalty would not be demanded for them
- APRIL 1, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez...
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, was sentenced to death for a series of bombings and bombing attempts in Cuba
- APRIL 1, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez...
On April 1, a second Salvadoran man, Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, was sentenced to death for a series of bombings and bombing attempts in Cuba
- APRIL 1, 1999CameroonDEATH PENALTY
In April, the Government had charged the 87 defendants...
In April, the Government had charged the 87 defendants with secession and undermining state security
- APRIL 1, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
In April, Egyptian prosecutors finished questioning...
In April, Egyptian prosecutors finished questioning 7 suspected Muslim militants who were deported from Arab and other countries, and will send them to court soon
- APRIL 1, 1999EgyptDEATH PENALTY
In April, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak issued a...
In April, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak issued a decree ending a controversial law that allows a rapist to walk away free if he marries his victim
- APRIL 1, 1999LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
On April 1, the Criminal Court in Monrovia convicted...
On April 1, the Criminal Court in Monrovia convicted 13 people of treason in a trial that followed 1998 clashes in the capital, involving supporters of former civil war faction leader Roosevelt Johnson
- APRIL 1, 1999SudanDEATH PENALTY
In April, Judge el-Amin el-Tayeb sentenced 10 people...
In April, Judge el-Amin el-Tayeb sentenced 10 people to death by crucifixion for initiating the clashes in the state of West Darfur in February, when some 131 people were killed and 85 wounded
- APRIL 1, 1999RwandaDEATH PENALTY
In April, the residents of Kivumu sector in Nyamyumba...
In April, the residents of Kivumu sector in Nyamyumba Commune of Gisenyi Prefecture (northwestern Rwanda), urged the region's judicial authorities to execute publicly Zachary Ndayazi, who confessed to having taken part in the massacre of 34 people early i
- APRIL 1, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
In April, at its annual meeting, the Illinois State...
In April, at its annual meeting, the Illinois State Medical Society came out in support of a moratorium on the death penalty until the state "has had an opportunity to thoroughly examine the cases of persons now awaiting execution
- APRIL 1, 1999New MexicoDEATH PENALTY
A poll conducted in April for "The Santa Fe New Mexican"...
A poll conducted in April for "The Santa Fe New Mexican" and K-O-A-T T-V found that 62% of respondents statewide favor capital punishment
- APRIL 1, 1999ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
In April, Bishop Manuel D
In April, Bishop Manuel D
- APRIL 1, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In April, a court sentenced restaurant owner Chi Jianguo...
In April, a court sentenced restaurant owner Chi Jianguo to death for poisoning the donkey soup at a nearby rival's eatery and making 148 people ill