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 15, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Akesu in the northwestern region of Xinjiang...
A court in Akesu in the northwestern region of Xinjiang gave capital punishment to 11 people, who were shot immediately afterwards
- MARCH 15, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Yoshikatsu Oda,...
The Fukuoka District Court sentenced Yoshikatsu Oda, 52, to death for stabbing to death Ikuyo Kagenishi and Tsuyoshi Shiraishi in December 1990 and attempting to make the murders appear to be a double suicide
- MARCH 15, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Internal Affairs minister, Yuriy Kravchenko, addressing...
The Internal Affairs minister, Yuriy Kravchenko, addressing parliament, said that 419 people who had been sentenced to capital punishment will most probably receive long prison terms
- MARCH 15, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Cedric Maake, a serial killer convicted of 27 murders,...
Cedric Maake, a serial killer convicted of 27 murders, 14 rapes and robbery was sentenced to 1,340 years in prison by the Johannesburg High Court
- MARCH 15, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Ha Tinh Province Court Order Execution Council...
The Ha Tinh Province Court Order Execution Council carried out the death penalty for Tran Van Truong, 38
- MARCH 15, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Georgia Senate approved replacing electrocution...
The Georgia Senate approved replacing electrocution with lethal injection as the state's execution method
- MARCH 15, 2000CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Darel Keith Rich, a 45 year old of native American...
Darel Keith Rich, a 45 year old of native American origin, who was known by the name of Young Elk in prison, was executed by lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison
- MARCH 15, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Timothy Gribble, 36, white, was executed by lethal injection
Timothy Gribble, 36, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 14, 2000Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was...
Former Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic, 52, was charged with the July 1995 slaughter of at least 7,500 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica, a UN-declared demilitarised zone
- MARCH 14, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indonesian military and police shot dead seven...
The Indonesian military and police shot dead seven people they claimed were separatist rebels in the restive province of Aceh
- MARCH 14, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika asked whether a death...
Justice Minister Yuri Chaika asked whether a death sentenced might be handed down to notorious Chechen guerrilla commander Salman Raduyev replied that it was up to the court
- MARCH 14, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prosecutor-General Vasiliy Kolmogorov said on...
Deputy Prosecutor-General Vasiliy Kolmogorov said on the case of Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev that the charge of premeditated murder may incur capital punishment or life imprisonment
- MARCH 14, 2000SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A fifty two year old housewife, Julaiha Begum, her...
A fifty two year old housewife, Julaiha Begum, her lover Loganatha Venkatesan, and another hired killer, Chandran Rajagopal, were all given the death sentence by the High Court for carrying out a plot to kill Begum's husband, T
- MARCH 14, 2000SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
General Radislav Kristic, 52, a Bosnian Serb, went...
General Radislav Kristic, 52, a Bosnian Serb, went on trial charged with planning and ordering the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica, the largest mass killing of civilians in Europe since World War II
- MARCH 14, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi Court Order Execution Council executed death...
The Hanoi Court Order Execution Council executed death row prisoner Dinh Van Mao at the Cau Nga Shooting Ground
- MARCH 14, 2000ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Patrick Poland, 50, white, was executed by lethal injection
Patrick Poland, 50, white, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 14, 2000TexasDEATH PENALTY
Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, black, was executed by lethal...
Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, black, was executed by lethal injection
- MARCH 13, 2000BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
In a landmark case, a magistrate in Botswana reserved...
In a landmark case, a magistrate in Botswana reserved passing a sentence and ordered a man found guilty of raping a teenage girl to undergo an HIV/AIDS test
- MARCH 13, 2000BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court condemned Aiyub Ali, 27, to death for strangling...
A court condemned Aiyub Ali, 27, to death for strangling Munirul Islam of Arpara village in Bagha thana on December 16, 1997
- MARCH 13, 2000AngolaDEATH PENALTY
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused...
Eugenio Manuvakola, president of breakaway UNITA accused UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi of ordering the execution of General Altino Sapalalo Bock, the former chief of staff of UNITA's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola [FALA], and Generals Tarzan and B
- MARCH 13, 2000GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized...
Djergenia, who is prosecutor-general of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, has written to UN Special Representative Dieter Boden denying Georgian media allegations that three Georgian prisoners of war have been executed in Abkhazia's Dranda prison
- MARCH 13, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital...
A murderer [identified only as] Kabeer was given capital punishment by an additional district and sessions court in Quetta
- MARCH 13, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence...
The People's Court in Lai Chau gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- MARCH 13, 2000LaosDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Lai Chau, Vietnam, gave a death...
The People's Court in Lai Chau, Vietnam, gave a death sentence to Luong Van Pan, a Laotian, for drug trafficking in November 1998
- MARCH 12, 2000SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Shireh Hasan Ahmad was executed publicly by a firing...
Shireh Hasan Ahmad was executed publicly by a firing squad in Jowhar (south-central Somalia) for killing a woman, Saynab Muhammad, in Gaaleed Village on February 27, 2000
- MARCH 11, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven criminals were executed in Tibet recently for murder
Seven criminals were executed in Tibet recently for murder
- MARCH 11, 2000PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death...
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Sukkur sentenced to death Ali Dhandho in a case of kidnapping for ransom
- MARCH 10, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared...
The prime minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham declared his personal opposition to the death penalty but said he does not propose to impose his own moral code and conscience on society
- MARCH 10, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said in an interview with...
Foreign Minister Ismail Cem said in an interview with that the inclusion of the death penalty in Turkish Penal Code constitutes an impediment for Turkey's membership to the European Union (EU) and Turkey is aware of that fact
- MARCH 9, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court rejected...
The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court rejected an appeal against a lower court ruling and upheld a 1997 ruling by the Naha District Court that found Hideo Zamami, 46, guilty of murdering two plainclothes policemen in 1990