Archive timeline
2000
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2000, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2000
- DECEMBER 19, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Yasin and Sarfraz Ahmad were...
Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Yasin and Sarfraz Ahmad were sentenced to death by the Anti Terrorist Court
- DECEMBER 19, 2000ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
David Dewayne Johnson, 37, black, was executed by lethal...
David Dewayne Johnson, 37, black, was executed by lethal injection in Cummins Prison, Varner
- DECEMBER 18, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hebei Higher People's Court examined and approved...
The Hebei Higher People's Court examined and approved the death penalty, to be executed by a firing squad, passed on Li Yonghui, a convict involved in a bombing case in Shijiazhuang that had attracted public attention
- DECEMBER 18, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five criminals were executed in Beijing after being...
Five criminals were executed in Beijing after being convicted of violent crimes, including murder and armed robbery
- DECEMBER 18, 2000ChadDEATH PENALTY
The National Front for a Renewed Chad charged that...
The National Front for a Renewed Chad charged that President Idriss Deby's army was guilty of atrocities against civilians in Ouaddai province, including the execution of three villagers on December 16 for refusing "to hand over their property to governme
- DECEMBER 18, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Top leaders of the ruling Awami League demanded the...
Top leaders of the ruling Awami League demanded the quick execution of the death sentences awarded to all the 15 convicts for killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members
- DECEMBER 18, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
The Presidency of the European Union called upon the...
The Presidency of the European Union called upon the Sri Lankan Government to identify and bring to justice those responsible for human rights violations in the country
- DECEMBER 18, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Declining a reference made by the District and Sessions...
Declining a reference made by the District and Sessions Judge, Hisar, a division bench comprising Justice HS Bedi and AS Garg commuted the death sentence of Kuldip Singh, a resident of Gorakhpur village to life imprisonment
- DECEMBER 18, 2000KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
An army sergeant was sentenced to die by firing squad...
An army sergeant was sentenced to die by firing squad after being convicted of murder by a military court in the southern Kazakh Zhambyl region
- DECEMBER 18, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, upon receiving 3
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, upon receiving 3
- DECEMBER 17, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
December 17-18, 2000: An investigative series by the...
December 17-18, 2000: An investigative series by the Chicago Tribune examined the cases of four death row inmates who were executed despite evidence of their innocence
- DECEMBER 17, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A senior army officer denied allegations by a human...
A senior army officer denied allegations by a human rights group that a former security adviser of President Laurent Kabila and several other soldiers had been executed
- DECEMBER 17, 2000Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The [Palestinian] Preventive Security Services arrested...
The [Palestinian] Preventive Security Services arrested Majdi Muhammad Makawi, 28, who was suspected of being behind the assassination of four of the Fatah movement's cadres
- DECEMBER 17, 2000TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Suspected US embassy bomber Khalfan Khamis Mohamed...
Suspected US embassy bomber Khalfan Khamis Mohamed won his bid in the Cape High Court to secure information relating to his arrest, detention and deportation from South Africa to the US
- DECEMBER 17, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
In an extensive article in the New York Times exploring...
In an extensive article in the New York Times exploring the views of those who participate in executions in Texas, Warden Jim Willett, who has presided over 84 executions at Huntsville Prison, stated: "Just from a Christian standpoint, you can't see one o
- DECEMBER 16, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
For the first time since executions resumed in 1994...
For the first time since executions resumed in 1994 there is a debate on the merits of the death penalty - something lacking until not long ago, when the authorities snuffed out murderers at will
- DECEMBER 15, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg granted...
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg granted Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan leave to appeal against the death sentence imposed on him by Turkey
- DECEMBER 15, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Frank Lee Smith, who had been convicted of a 1985 rape...
Frank Lee Smith, who had been convicted of a 1985 rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl, and who died of cancer 11 months ago while still on death row, was cleared of these charges according to an aide to Florida Gov
- DECEMBER 14, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Judges Mohammad Ruhul Amin and A
Judges Mohammad Ruhul Amin and A
- DECEMBER 14, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Russian State Duma anti-corruption committee Chairman,...
The Russian State Duma anti-corruption committee Chairman, Vladislav Ignatov, suggested in a press conference that the death penalty should be introduced as a punishment for drug dealing
- DECEMBER 14, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian security forces began a fresh wave of arrests...
Indonesian security forces began a fresh wave of arrests or killings of independence supporters in the provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya
- DECEMBER 14, 2000FranceDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe urged US President-elect George W
The Council of Europe urged US President-elect George W
- DECEMBER 14, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saddam Hussein ordered the public beheading of dozens...
Saddam Hussein ordered the public beheading of dozens of men and women suspected of being pimps and prostitutes, human rights' groups claimed As many as 100 were thought to have been executed and the heads of some of the victims were tied to their own fro
- DECEMBER 14, 2000AustriaDEATH PENALTY
Austrian President Thomas Klestil sent congratulations...
Austrian President Thomas Klestil sent congratulations to [US president-elect George] Bush
- DECEMBER 14, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
The joint United Nations/Organisation of African Unity...
The joint United Nations/Organisation of African Unity (OAU) international committee of enquiry concluded its visit in Togo, where it was investigating allegations by the London-based Amnesty International that authorities had carried out extra-judicial e
- DECEMBER 14, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Cape High Court ordered the ministries of justice,...
The Cape High Court ordered the ministries of justice, home affairs, foreign affairs and the national directorate for public prosecutions to furnish alleged Tanzanian bomber Khalfan Khamis Mohamed with all that he needed relating to his alleged unlawful a
- DECEMBER 14, 2000AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
On December 14, 2000, the country's warring rivals,...
On December 14, 2000, the country's warring rivals, the ruling Taleban and opposition Northern Alliance, held informal peace talks for the first time in 2000
- DECEMBER 14, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
The Greens' human rights expert, Claudia Roth, said...
The Greens' human rights expert, Claudia Roth, said the election of George W
- DECEMBER 14, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Colosseum was illuminated to celebrate commutations...
The Colosseum was illuminated to celebrate commutations of sentences given to 105 death row prisoners in the Phillipines
- DECEMBER 14, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Colosseum was illuminated to mark the occasion...
The Colosseum was illuminated to mark the occasion in New York, when the Secretary of the UN Kofi Annan was presented with 3 million signatures, from 145 countries, in an appeal against the death penalty organised by the Community of Saint Egidio