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
- MAY 25, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection
Charles Foster, 51, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 25, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
James Clayton, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 24, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State...
Russian ombudsman Oleg Mironov called on the State Duma lower house of parliament to ratify Protocol 6 of the European Convention abolishing the death penalty
- MAY 24, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law...
A housewife [identified only as] Salamah asked law enforcers to sentence the rapist of her 16-month-old daughter to death
- MAY 24, 2000BruneiDEATH PENALTY
Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some...
Comments published on the Borneo Bulletin caused some heated debate on the death penalty
- MAY 24, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation...
Joshua Mzizi, president of the Human Rights Organisation of Swaziland (HUMARAS), said that the Swaziland government still retains the death penalty in its statutes, a situation that is out of step with its neighbours and in defiance of condemnation from h
- MAY 24, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice Secretary Artemio G
Justice Secretary Artemio G
- MAY 24, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between...
Hundreds of cars jammed the border crossing between Lebanon and Israel
- MAY 24, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal...
Richard Foster, 47, white, was put to death by lethal injection
- MAY 23, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha...
The Central Command Council of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad organized a rally to demand immediate implementation of the verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case
- MAY 23, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law...
Li Changhe, former secretary of the political and law committee of the city of Pingdingshan, central China, and assassins Liu Guoxing, and Yi Zhihong were given the death sentence for his involvement in a hired-killing and bribery scheme by the Intermedia
- MAY 23, 2000ChileDEATH PENALTY
After a group calling itself the Group of Families...
After a group calling itself the Group of Families of Raped and Murdered Children rejected a government proposal to eliminate the death penalty, President Ricardo Lagos said he favoured holding a national referendum to decide whether or not the death pena
- MAY 23, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First...
Trials of genocide continued at Nyamata Court of First Instance in Kigali Rural Prefecture
- MAY 23, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and...
An Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son was executed
- MAY 23, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that...
Roman Catholic bishops supported calls for a law that would commute a death sentence to life imprisonment if the guilty person agreed to donate an organ for transplant
- MAY 23, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at...
Ahmed Yar, a convict in Pakpattan, wasto be hung at the Sahiwal Central Jail on June 6
- MAY 23, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of killing a Saudi man and his son
- MAY 23, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of...
Alireza Karami Kheyrabadi, convicted on charges of hijacking a passenger plane to Iraq in 1993, was sentenced to death
- MAY 23, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal...
James Richardson, 32, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MAY 23, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo...
The (opposition) AN parliamentary group leader Gustavo Selva invited the Italian government to take a firm stand condemning China's attitude to the death penalty
- MAY 22, 2000Solomon IslandsDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged the police service and...
Amnesty International urged the police service and the authorities to halt the spiral of violence and end the suffering and human rights abuses being committed by all parties in the conflict on Guadalcanal
- MAY 22, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Senior government officials said that Sankoh was to...
Senior government officials said that Sankoh was to face trial for murder and treason-two charges which carry the death penalty in Sierra Leone
- MAY 22, 2000Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Pierre Sane, secretary-general of London-based Amnesty...
Pierre Sane, secretary-general of London-based Amnesty International, said that Sankoh and other Sierra Leonean alleged war criminals should face trial
- MAY 22, 2000AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution at...
Inmates sentenced to death and awaiting execution at Batna's Tazoult prison entered their second day of hunger strike to complain against detention conditions
- MAY 22, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lanka's police narcotics bureau said it had seized...
Sri Lanka's police narcotics bureau said it had seized 38 kilograms (kg) of heroin, the largest ever haul in the country, considered a major transit point for international drug smugglers
- MAY 22, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician,...
Chan Choon Wai, a 20-year old Malaysian electrician, failed to have his death sentence overturned by the Court of Appeal
- MAY 22, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
"Swazis believe in justice and letting the punishment...
"Swazis believe in justice and letting the punishment fit the crime," said Justice Minister Maweni Simelane
- MAY 22, 2000Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority...
Ka Hsaw Wa, a member of Burma's Karen ethnic minority and co-director of the Earthrights International (ERI) documented hundreds of cases of rape, execution and confiscation of property carried out by the military, from 1995 to 2000, during the building o
- MAY 21, 2000RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and...
The foreign policy commissions of the Romanian and Moldovan parliaments signed a joint declaration in which the two countries requested a new trial of the Ilie Ilascu case
- MAY 21, 2000MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments...
The foreign policy commissions with the parliaments of Moldova and Romania signed a joint declaration in which the two countries expressed their bid to join the EU and request a new trial of the Ilascu case