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
- MARCH 31, 1999United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
On March 31, UK representative Mr Fatchett reiterated...
On March 31, UK representative Mr Fatchett reiterated at the UN Commission on Human Rights the United Kingdom's full support for the statement made on behalf of the European Union by Joschka Fischer
- MARCH 31, 1999South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
On March 31, President Nelson Mandela said the death...
On March 31, President Nelson Mandela said the death penalty would not be restored while the African National Congress was in power because "slaughtering people" was not a solution to crime
- MARCH 29, 1999MassachusettsDEATH PENALTY
In 1998, a bill to restore the death penalty was defeated...
In 1998, a bill to restore the death penalty was defeated by one vote
- MARCH 28, 1999SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 28, Serbia's Justice Minister Dragoljub Jankovic...
On March 28, Serbia's Justice Minister Dragoljub Jankovic wrote to the competent Yugoslav federal bodies proposing that the Federal Government facilitate criminal procedures in times of war, in view of NATO's aggression
- MARCH 27, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On March 27, a court in Zhengzhouhanded down the death...
On March 27, a court in Zhengzhouhanded down the death sentence with a 2 year reprieve to Ma Jiangping, director of a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), for embezzlement and misuse of nearly 200 million yuan ($24
- MARCH 26, 1999South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
On March 26, police arrested two young Russian women...
On March 26, police arrested two young Russian women in South Korea, Yelena Patrina and Tatyana Bednenko, both born in 1976, from the Russian city of Khabarovsk, charging them with the murder of another Russian young woman, a friend of the two, Tatyana Ye
- MARCH 26, 1999TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
On March 26, the Supreme Court sentenced Mizomuddin...
On March 26, the Supreme Court sentenced Mizomuddin Valiyev, Saidrakhmon Davuvoz and Yakub Darveshev to death by firing squad
- MARCH 26, 1999ThailandDEATH PENALTY
On March 26, a meeting of the Justice Coordination...
On March 26, a meeting of the Justice Coordination Committee chaired by Justice Minister Suthas Ngernmuen was held to consider the proposal by the Corrections Department that lethal injections replace gunshots as a method of execution
- MARCH 25, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25,...
On March 25, four men, Zakaria Hassan Naddawi, 25, Walid Mohammed Jamal Youzbashi, 25, Azzam Ali Raai, 29, and Khaled Mohammed Jamaleddine, 47, were charged with the premeditated murder of Omar and Doha Mrad in 1997
- MARCH 25, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
On March 25, the House of Representatives passed a...
On March 25, the House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution calling for a 6-month moratorium on executions and initiated public hearings around the state to study all aspects of the application of the death penalty in Illinois
- MARCH 23, 1999GermanyDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, Germany introduced the question of the...
On March 23, Germany introduced the question of the death penalty at the Commission on Human Rights and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer declared in his inaugural speech: "Europeans believe that the death penalty can not be justified either ethically or l
- MARCH 23, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, during a state visit of Ukrainian President...
On March 23, during a state visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Sweden, Birgitta Dahl of the Swedish Riksdag (Parliament) called attention to issues concerning Ukraine's membership in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and to t
- MARCH 23, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon,...
On March 23, a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, who confessed earlier in March in Havana's Provincial Tribunal, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death for a string of 1997 bombings in hotels and a restaurant, which killed an Italian tour
- MARCH 23, 1999El SalvadorDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, a Salvadoran national...
On March 23, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, a Salvadoran national who confessed earlier in March in Havana's Provincial Tribunal, was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death for a string of 1997 bombings in hotels and a restaurant, which killed an Italian
- MARCH 23, 1999ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On March 23, it was reported that 10 people were executed...
On March 23, it was reported that 10 people were executed after 8 separate cases for murder, selling women and robbery, including a case in which a taxi driver was killed for about 100 yuan ($12)
- MARCH 22, 1999GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 22, Georgia acceded to the Second Optional...
On March 22, Georgia acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 22, 1999LebanonDEATH PENALTY
On 22 March, the North's Prosecution Committee recommended...
On 22 March, the North's Prosecution Committee recommended that a woman Hiba Abdel-Razzaq Maasarani, 41, be sentenced to death for shooting her husband, businessman Adel Fouad Traboulsi, 46, in his sleep in 1997
- MARCH 21, 1999IraqDEATH PENALTY
On March 21, about 180 Iraqis were executed in Basra's...
On March 21, about 180 Iraqis were executed in Basra's al-Sabkhah suburb, and 56 others were executed in the province's security prison on March 23, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, an Iran-based leading dissident group, reported on April 1
- MARCH 20, 1999Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 20, Abdullah bin Ali bin Abdullah Al Owaija,...
On March 20, Abdullah bin Ali bin Abdullah Al Owaija, a Saudi, was executed for shooting to death Hayat bint Saad bin Muslih Al Mutairi, a Saudi girl
- MARCH 19, 1999UkraineDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Mynko, charged...
On March 19, Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Mynko, charged with robbing and murdering US Peace Corps volunteer, Viktor Verlow, was sentenced to death by the Chernihiv Regional Court
- MARCH 19, 1999IndiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, in New Delhi, the Supreme Court ordered...
On March 19, in New Delhi, the Supreme Court ordered the death sentence for Dharampal, who was convicted for raping the daughter of his neighbor and while on bail murdered 5 members of the rape victim's family with his brother Nirmal's help in the village
- MARCH 19, 1999MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Singapore hanged two Malaysians and a...
On March 19, Singapore hanged two Malaysians and a Singaporean for drug trafficking
- MARCH 19, 1999SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and...
On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and a Singaporean, for possession of a small amount of the drug diamorphine and a about 2kg of cannabis
- MARCH 19, 1999MassachusettsDEATH PENALTY
On March 19, Cardinal Bernard Law and three other Catholic...
On March 19, Cardinal Bernard Law and three other Catholic bishops in Massachusetts issued a joint statement condemning the death penalty
- MARCH 17, 1999IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
On March 17, convicted killer Andrew Kokoraleis was...
On March 17, convicted killer Andrew Kokoraleis was put to death by lethal injection, just hours after Gov
- MARCH 16, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 16, 4 members of the Baha'i community's Higher...
On March 16, 4 members of the Baha'i community's Higher Education Institute, Habbibollah Ferdosian, Ziaullah Mirzapanah, Sina Hakiman and Farzad Khajeh, were sentenced to various prison terms
- MARCH 15, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, Mojahed, the paper of the Mojahedin of...
On March 15, Mojahed, the paper of the Mojahedin of the Iranian People reported that in the city of Khorramabad, in the Lorestan region, 18 youths previously arrested for disturbances in Ahvas, capital of the Khozestan region, were executed
- MARCH 15, 1999JordanDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, a military tribunal sentenced to death...
On March 15, a military tribunal sentenced to death by hanging Mohammad Jaghameen, 35, and Ahmad Subuh, 34, who remains a fugitive, for a killing spree that left more than 10 people dead in 1998
- MARCH 15, 1999CubaDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, the Provincial Tribunal of Havana sentenced...
On March 15, the Provincial Tribunal of Havana sentenced Vladimiro Roca to 5 years imprisonment; René Gomez Manzano and Felix Bonne to 4 years; Marta Beatriz Roque to 3½ years
- MARCH 15, 1999CanadaDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, Justice Minister Anne McLellan said a...
On March 15, Justice Minister Anne McLellan said a Supreme Court order to seek a guarantee for Burns and Rafay could rob her of the "ministerial discretion" she has to weigh each case on its own merit