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
- JUNE 8, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections,...
Expanding the experimental use of lethal injections, authorities in Sichuan province used the method to execute eight people following an order by the Supreme People's Court
- JUNE 8, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Bereaved families of victims and survivors of the subway...
Bereaved families of victims and survivors of the subway gassing blasted the Tokyo District Court for not Inoue Yoshihiro the death penalty
- JUNE 8, 2000EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt promised to help solve a dispute between Bulgaria...
Egypt promised to help solve a dispute between Bulgaria and Libya over the trial of six medical staff accused by Libya of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the HIV virus who could face the death penalty if convicted
- JUNE 8, 2000NamibiaDEATH PENALTY
Felizberto Toto, 35, was summarily executed by NDF...
Felizberto Toto, 35, was summarily executed by NDF soldiers because he was believed to be a member of the Angolan rebel group Unita
- JUNE 8, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the...
Parliament amended the penal code to substitute the death penalty for life imprisonment
- JUNE 8, 2000KenyaDEATH PENALTY
A man who appealed against his eight-year prison sentence...
A man who appealed against his eight-year prison sentence for robbery was instead given a death sentence
- JUNE 8, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Roger James Berget, 39, white, was executed by lethal...
Roger James Berget, 39, white, was executed by lethal injection in the Oklahome State Penitentiary of McAlester
- JUNE 7, 2000TogoDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder...
The United Nations announced it would probe the murder of hundreds of people in Togo two years ago, allegedly by paramilitary forces after 1998 presidential elections
- JUNE 7, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed...
The Taiyuan Municipal Intermediate People's Court passed a death sentence on convicted criminal Li Xiaolong 35
- JUNE 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Because of the spread of AIDS in the Russian, the governor...
Because of the spread of AIDS in the Russian, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, said there should be a referendum in the region about bringing back the death penalty for those who dealt drugs
- JUNE 7, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Army General Andrei Nikolayev, chairman of the State...
Army General Andrei Nikolayev, chairman of the State Duma lower house of parliament defence committee said that the main authority in Chechnya should be executed by a special envoy of the Russian President in the framework of the direct federal rule
- JUNE 7, 2000Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
Bennie Demps, a condemned man who spent more than half...
Bennie Demps, a condemned man who spent more than half his 49 years on Death Row, was executed in Florida
- JUNE 7, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced to death Ali Rashid...
The Fujairah Sharia Court sentenced to death Ali Rashid Sagheer, 40, for shooting a neighbour dead in Masafi in 1999
- JUNE 7, 2000LaosDEATH PENALTY
Bounthanh Thammavong, the leader of the Laotian Executive...
Bounthanh Thammavong, the leader of the Laotian Executive Council for Independence and Democracy, asked Poland for help in preventing the Vietnamese intervention in Laos
- JUNE 7, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry...
Florida's third death by lethal injection went awry and was delayed for 33 minutes as technicians struggled to insert a lethal IV into the veins of a 49-year-old killer
- JUNE 7, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Bennie Demps, 49, white, was executed by lethal injection...
Bennie Demps, 49, white, was executed by lethal injection in Florida State Prison, near Starke
- JUNE 6, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Inoue Yoshihiro was sentenced to life in prison for...
Inoue Yoshihiro was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1995 nerve gas attack Tokyo's subway
- JUNE 6, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait has handed over a wanted Moslem militant to...
Kuwait has handed over a wanted Moslem militant to Egypt and the United Arab Emirates has almost certainly deported another, said a London-based Islamist, Yasser el-Serri, who runs the Islamic Observation Centre pressure group
- JUNE 6, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salih Hamad Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi national,...
Salih Hamad Muhammad Al-Ziyadi, an Iraqi national, was beheaded in Rafha after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country
- JUNE 6, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Iraq executed Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu, a Jordanian national...
Iraq executed Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu, a Jordanian national who was arrested in 1993 and was later sentenced to death by an Iraqi court for taking part in a plot against Iraq and its leadership
- JUNE 6, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Javad Haddadi was sentenced to 99 lashings and death,...
Javad Haddadi was sentenced to 99 lashings and death, and Batoul Ahmadi was sentenced to 99 lashings and 15 years for killing Batoul's husband, Javad Ahmadi
- JUNE 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament said after talks with Turkey...
The European Parliament said after talks with Turkey that Ankara's failure to abolish the death penalty remained an obstacle to better relations as it seeks membership of the European Union
- JUNE 6, 2000LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
Feltus Taylor, 38, black, was executed by lethal injection...
Feltus Taylor, 38, black, was executed by lethal injection in Louisiana State Penitentiary
- JUNE 5, 2000CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien claimed at an...
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien claimed at an international conference in Ottawa that [former] US President Bill Clinton was "jealous" of Canada
- JUNE 5, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wu Biao, ex-director of the Jiangdong business department...
Wu Biao, ex-director of the Jiangdong business department under the Ningbo International Fiduciary Investment Company was sentenced to death for taking and offering bribes
- JUNE 5, 2000ArgentinaDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 5, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE deported Mohamed al-Zawahri, deputy leader of Egypt's...
UAE deported Mohamed al-Zawahri, deputy leader of Egypt's Jihad (Holy War) group, to Cairo, said a London-based Islamist, Yasser el-Serri, who runs the Islamic Observation Centre pressure group
- JUNE 5, 2000JordanDEATH PENALTY
Ayman al-Majali, Jordan's acting Foreign Minister,...
Ayman al-Majali, Jordan's acting Foreign Minister, summoned the Iraqi envoy in Amman and "expressed the Jordanian government's protest against and astonishment at the execution of Jordanian citizen Dawud Sulayman al-Dalu without a prior announcement of th
- JUNE 5, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 4, 2000LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court of Libya adjourned the trial of...
The People's Court of Libya adjourned the trial of the six Bulgarian medics charged with infecting intentionally Libyan children with the AIDS virus to September 17