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
- MARCH 21, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Condemned serial killer Javed Iqbal, 38, appealed his...
Condemned serial killer Javed Iqbal, 38, appealed his March 16 death sentence for the murders of 100 runaway children
- MARCH 21, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Beirut MP Hussein Yatim, accused Hoss of "violating...
Beirut MP Hussein Yatim, accused Hoss of "violating the Constitution by conceding one of his prerogatives to his deputy" and urged Hoss to "prepare a bill that annuls capital punishment if he wants to be in harmony with his beliefs
- MARCH 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council condemned China for...
The EU General Affairs Council condemned China for "marking time" by signing international pacts
- MARCH 20, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
EU foreign ministers issued a statement deploring Russia's...
EU foreign ministers issued a statement deploring Russia's failure to improve international relief efforts in Chechnya or permit the European Humanitarian Office to visit Chechnya
- MARCH 20, 2000PortugalDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council in Brussels included...
The EU General Affairs Council in Brussels included a two-page statement condemning China for "marking time" by signing international pacts
- MARCH 20, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The head of Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee,...
The head of Parliament's Finance and Budget Committee, Zahle MP Khalil Hrawi, said that "There is no constitutional violation in this case
- MARCH 20, 2000MinnesotaDEATH PENALTY
A state-wide poll by the Star Tribune Minnesota found...
A state-wide poll by the Star Tribune Minnesota found that support for the death penalty in Minnesota has fallen to 57%, down from 73% in 1996
- MARCH 19, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady...
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Osipov declared that Russia had the right to suspend its moratorium on capital punishment if the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe spoke out against Russia's membership of that internation
- MARCH 19, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
An opinion poll by "The Sunday Times" has found a majority...
An opinion poll by "The Sunday Times" has found a majority of Western Australians support the death penalty
- MARCH 19, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Salim Hoss refused to sign a judiciary...
Prime Minister Salim Hoss refused to sign a judiciary decree ordering the death sentence for two convicted criminals, Fadi Ahmad Mur`ish and Mahmud Ahmad Husayn, because of his strong opposition to the death penalty
- MARCH 19, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Legal experts expressed different points of view over...
Legal experts expressed different points of view over whether Salim Hoss could be impeached for letting Michel Murr sign authorizations for death sentences
- MARCH 18, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
WA Chief Justice David Malcolm said incarceration was...
WA Chief Justice David Malcolm said incarceration was a serious enough punishment for heinous crimes and he was yet to be convinced of the effectiveness of the death penalty
- MARCH 18, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Security Ministry employees destroyed some 444 kg of...
Security Ministry employees destroyed some 444 kg of drugs confiscated in the course of special operations in the furnaces of one of Dushanbe's industrial plants
- MARCH 18, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovskiy said that...
Presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovskiy said that Chechen rebel leaders should be publicly executed
- MARCH 18, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
The High Court Judge Stanley Maphalala handed down...
The High Court Judge Stanley Maphalala handed down the death sentence against five men and one woman, who killed a priest and his wife in cold blood after suspecting the couple bewitched them
- MARCH 18, 2000EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
After the decision of the High Court to hang 12 people...
After the decision of the High Court to hang 12 people on death row, John Gama, the High Court Registrar, said that the threats of bringing the noose back into Swaziland were nothing more than a form of shock treatment for criminals
- MARCH 17, 2000ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano said that kidnappings...
Police Director Rosso Jose Serrano said that kidnappings have displaced drug trafficking [as the main crime in Colombia] and he proposed the reconsideration of the adoption of life imprisonment and even the death penalty to punish this crime
- MARCH 17, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
WA Premier Richard Court backed away from calling a...
WA Premier Richard Court backed away from calling a referendum on the death penalty before the next State election and said it would not be an election issue
- MARCH 17, 2000MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
King Mohammed VI of Morocco pardoned 864 prisoners,...
King Mohammed VI of Morocco pardoned 864 prisoners, including three sentenced to death, during the Muslim festival of Aid El Kebir celebrations
- MARCH 17, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Senate approved a motion by its Vice-President...
The Senate approved a motion by its Vice-President Ersilia Salvato urging the government to steer the EU towards proposing a new resolution on the death penalty at the UN Commission for Human Rights
- MARCH 16, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Sendai High Court rejected a former death-row inmate's...
The Sendai High Court rejected a former death-row inmate's demand that the state and Miyagi Prefecture pay a total of 143 million yen in compensation for falsely charging him of murdering a family of four in 1955
- MARCH 16, 2000EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
The Italian Charge d'Affaires, Renato Cianfarani said...
The Italian Charge d'Affaires, Renato Cianfarani said Italy was offering sanctuary to three former Derg officials at the Italian Embassy "solely on humanitarian grounds," and that Italy would hand them over if Ethiopia pledged the ex-officials would not f
- MARCH 16, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Lahore courtordered a serial killer who had confessed...
A Lahore courtordered a serial killer who had confessed to killing more than 100 children to 100 death sentences in which he was to die in the same manner he killed his victims
- MARCH 16, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
The Islamic penal code envisages stiff sentences for...
The Islamic penal code envisages stiff sentences for a range of social, sexual and political offences, including frequent lashing and even executions
- MARCH 16, 2000FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Nahume Green was acquitted of the murder of...
Joseph Nahume Green was acquitted of the murder of Judith Miscally
- MARCH 16, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 16, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
CCD chairman Pier Ferdinando Casini met a delegation...
CCD chairman Pier Ferdinando Casini met a delegation of Cuban anti-Castro exiles
- MARCH 15, 2000AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Greenough representative Kevin Minson tabled a petition...
Greenough representative Kevin Minson tabled a petition in the Legislative Assembly calling for a referendum on the death penalty
- MARCH 15, 2000Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and...
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and Hong Kong to sign a mutual assistance agreement on criminal cases because of their differences on the issue of the death penalty
- MARCH 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and...
Deputy Ma Lik said it would not be easy for China and Hong Kong to sign a mutual assistance agreement on criminal cases because of their differences on the issue of the death penalty