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
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lanka's ruling People's Alliance (PA) decided to...
Sri Lanka's ruling People's Alliance (PA) decided to reintroduce the death penalty due to the escalating crime rates in the country
- NOVEMBER 23, 2000Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lanka's ruling People's Alliance (PA) decided to...
Sri Lanka's ruling People's Alliance (PA) decided to reintroduce the death penalty due to the escalating crime rates in the country
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The UN Committee Against Torture considered Belarus'...
The UN Committee Against Torture considered Belarus' third periodic report on the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment at its meetings in November 2000
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Peng Farong, the chairman of China Tianping Enterprises,...
Peng Farong, the chairman of China Tianping Enterprises, was executed with the approval of the Supreme Court, for colluding with Xuan Ying, the section chief of a savings unit of the Communications Bank Kunming Branch to use high interests to lure the Yu
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven Chinese citizens were executed by a bullet after...
Seven Chinese citizens were executed by a bullet after the Intermediate People's Court in the western city of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Autonomous Region sentenced them publicly for crimes including robbery, arson, murder and rape
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel has said the ministry...
Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel has said the ministry was studying the court records on Posada Carriles to determine whether there were judicial grounds to request his extradition
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000CubaDEATH PENALTY
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel has...
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel has said the ministry was studying the court records on Posada Carriles to determine whether there were judicial grounds to request his extradition
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights...
Experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights sent a letter that said they noted a "pattern of serious human rights violations" in Aceh including torture, extrajudicial executions of civilians, and death threats against human rights organizatio
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Nobel peace prize-winning humanitarian body Medicins...
Nobel peace prize-winning humanitarian body Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) condemned Russia's "policy of terror" in Chechnya, which it said included arbitrary executions and ethnic cleansing
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Mikhail Potebenko announced...
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Mikhail Potebenko announced that the number of first-degree murders would rise in the Ukraine due to a moratorium on death penalties
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
Ishmael Samad, contesting the Couva South seat, said...
Ishmael Samad, contesting the Couva South seat, said the election was an opportunity for him to champion his beliefs
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A North Carolina legislative committee that has spent...
A North Carolina legislative committee that has spent almost a year analysing the death penalty voted to make three major recommendations when the General Assembly returns in January: An outright ban on executing people deemed mentally retarded, defined a
- NOVEMBER 22, 2000PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
November 22-28, 2000: After a jury returned a death...
November 22-28, 2000: After a jury returned a death sentence verdict, Cleveland (Ohio) Judge Daniel Gaul sentenced a man to death and shortly thereafter took the opportunity to speak to the press about his opposition to the death penalty
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ChadDEATH PENALTY
The National Front for a Renewed Chad (FNTR), an armed...
The National Front for a Renewed Chad (FNTR), an armed opposition movement, accused the government of executing six suspected members of the opposition on 17 November
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000UgandaDEATH PENALTY
A total of 180 people in Uganda were put to death...
A total of 180 people in Uganda were put to death by lynch since the beginning of the year 2000, the country's police spokesman Eric Naigambi stated
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Several hundreds of Armenian Kurds held a rally to...
Several hundreds of Armenian Kurds held a rally to express their support of the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan when the European Court for Human Rights Protection began to hear Ocalan's appeal against his death sentence
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Gagik Arutyunyan, chairman of the Armenian Constitutional...
Gagik Arutyunyan, chairman of the Armenian Constitutional Court, addressing a seminar held at the Constitutional Court on the subject of the Armenian constitution's conformity to the regulations of the European convention to protect human rights and basic
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Two drug traffickers from the same family were hanged...
Two drug traffickers from the same family were hanged in Kajang Prison
- NOVEMBER 21, 2000North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Just hours before his execution on November 22, North...
Just hours before his execution on November 22, North Carolina death row inmate Marcus Carter had his sentence commuted to life in prison without parole by Governor Jim Hunt
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hao Ruiduan, ex-director of Huaiyang County Grain Bureau...
Hao Ruiduan, ex-director of Huaiyang County Grain Bureau in central China's Henan Province, was executed for the killing of a deputy curator of Huaiyang County Museum, Li Genghai
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At least four criminals were executed in Beijing for...
At least four criminals were executed in Beijing for murder, rape and robbery
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000SwitzerlandDEATH PENALTY
Death row inmate and street gang co-founder Stanley...
Death row inmate and street gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams has been nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize
- NOVEMBER 20, 2000United StatesDEATH PENALTY
In a letter delivered to the White House, religious,...
In a letter delivered to the White House, religious, civil rights, and political leaders urged President Clinton to declare a moratorium on federal executions
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
The Freedom Union Deputy chairman Vladimir Mlynar believes...
The Freedom Union Deputy chairman Vladimir Mlynar believes that Europe might resume a discussion on the introduction of the death sentence in the future and that the Czech Republic should take part in it
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Yemeni Bani al-Harith sentenced Sudanese Mohammad...
The Yemeni Bani al-Harith sentenced Sudanese Mohammad Adam Omar to death by the sword or by firing squad after finding him guilty of killing Huson Ahmad Atiyyah
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian national was executed in Dammam in the Eastern...
An Indian national was executed in Dammam in the Eastern Region
- NOVEMBER 19, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian national was executed in Dammam in the Eastern...
An Indian national was executed in Dammam in the Eastern Region (Saudi Arabia)
- NOVEMBER 18, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni court convicted a Sudanese morgue assistant...
A Yemeni court convicted a Sudanese morgue assistant of killing two women and sentenced him to death, officials said
- NOVEMBER 18, 2000SudanDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni court convicted a Sudanese morgue assistant...
A Yemeni court convicted a Sudanese morgue assistant of killing two women and sentenced him to death, officials said
- NOVEMBER 18, 2000South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Municipal police forces were the answer to the current...
Municipal police forces were the answer to the current spate of attacks on South African farms, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said