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
- JANUARY 9, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, the Minister of Agriculture and...
Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that when the file of Abdullah Ocalan, the head terrorist, was taken to the parliament, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) would vote for execution of Ocalan
- JANUARY 7, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law...
Gary Hickinbottom, a solicitor with the London law firm, CMS McKenna, who led a team of British lawyers who acted for David Mitchell without charge, criticised the speed with which the Bahamian authorities had acted as a breach of international law
- JANUARY 7, 2000BermudaDEATH PENALTY
Governor Thorold Masefield signed the bill abolishing...
Governor Thorold Masefield signed the bill abolishing the death penalty and flogging in Bermuda
- JANUARY 7, 2000UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Six people convicted of organizing bombings in the...
Six people convicted of organizing bombings in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, were executed, a high-ranking official in the Uzbek Prosecutor-General's Office said
- JANUARY 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister [and Nationalist Action Party...
Deputy Prime Minister [and Nationalist Action Party leader] Devlet Bahceli declared that those who wanted to dilute the decision passed down by the Turkish judiciary against Abdullah Ocalan on behalf of the Turkish nation should realise that their attitud
- JANUARY 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan warned of "tragedies" if...
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan warned of "tragedies" if the Turkish authorities did not tackle the "essence" of the Kurdish problem
- JANUARY 7, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Carrying out the death sentence passed on Kurdish rebel...
Carrying out the death sentence passed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan would simply enable him to do more damage to Turkey from beyond the grave, Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said
- JANUARY 7, 2000AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
David Ray Duren, 37, white, was put to death by electric...
David Ray Duren, 37, white, was put to death by electric chair in Holman Prison, Altmore
- JANUARY 7, 2000ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
A poll of Connecticut residents conducted by the Center...
A poll of Connecticut residents conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut found the following: 55% don't believe the death penalty is a deterrent to murder; nearly 40% believe a black or Hispanic defendant i
- JANUARY 7, 2000VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
The Portuguese Presidency of European Union renewed...
The Portuguese Presidency of European Union renewed a humanitarian appeal to Governor James Gilmore on behalf of Douglas C
- JANUARY 7, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani launched...
The Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani launched in New York the new Benetton (fashion wear) campaign for death penalty awareness
- JANUARY 6, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
David Mitchell, 27, was hanged at the main Fox Hill...
David Mitchell, 27, was hanged at the main Fox Hill prison in the capital Nassau
- JANUARY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four women with little education were convicted of...
Four women with little education were convicted of forming a "pyramid association" to collect money by fraud and illegally absorbing deposits from the public amounting to nearly 200m yuan
- JANUARY 6, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Municipal Intermediate Court sentenced Huang Guanguo, former manager of the Minhang District Commercial Buildings Development and Trading Company, and Li Min Tai concurrently vice-chairman of the board and general manager of the Shanghai Hous
- JANUARY 6, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraqi Communist Party sources reported that Ali Hasan...
Iraqi Communist Party sources reported that Ali Hasan al-Majid, the cousin of the dictator Saddam Hussein, gave orders to set up a special military court at the headquarters of the 4th Army Corps in Imarah
- JANUARY 6, 2000MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
The Moroccan Watchdog for Prisons (OMP) stated that...
The Moroccan Watchdog for Prisons (OMP) stated that Moroccan prisons are overpopulated, with malnutrition and inadequacy of medical care being the causes of infectious and mental diseases, as well as the rising number of suicides and deaths
- JANUARY 6, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko said "a presidential...
Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko said "a presidential guarantee in accordance with a relevant decision by the Ukrainian Constitutional Court stating that the death penalty will no longer be carried out in Ukraine" will aid investigations into crimes imp
- JANUARY 6, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller said that...
True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller said that the decision on the execution of terrorist ringleader Abdullah Ocalan must be brought before the Turkish Grand National Assembly [TGNA] without delay
- JANUARY 6, 2000DEATH PENALTY
Malcolm Robert Johnson, 41, black, was put to death...
Malcolm Robert Johnson, 41, black, was put to death by lethal injection in Oklahoma State Penitentiary
- JANUARY 5, 2000BahamasDEATH PENALTY
Death row inmate John Higgs, 51, killed himself while...
Death row inmate John Higgs, 51, killed himself while under suicide watch
- JANUARY 5, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prison officials said nine people, including five foreigners,...
Prison officials said nine people, including five foreigners, are on death row in Thailand, all for heroin trafficking
- JANUARY 5, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Israel warned Bangkok that bilateral relations could...
Israel warned Bangkok that bilateral relations could suffer if it executes Yosef Ohana and Avraham Huri, two Israelis sentenced in 1997 for trying to smuggle 2
- JANUARY 5, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] hailed the 30 December 1999 decision by the Ukrainian Constitutional Court on the abolition of the death penalty
- JANUARY 5, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the...
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Geneva-based body that works for the rule of law around the world, hailed Ukraine's Constitutional Court for ruling that the death penalty must be abolished in the former Soviet republic
- JANUARY 5, 2000PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Briton Albert Wilson, 47, who was on death row for...
Briton Albert Wilson, 47, who was on death row for child rape, was freed after the Supreme Court squashed his conviction
- JANUARY 5, 2000IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of India commuted to life imprisonment...
The Supreme Court of India commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to Kishori, the infamous "butcher of Trilokpuri" for killing several people during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
- JANUARY 4, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xu Jianshe, a vice-director of the land administration...
Xu Jianshe, a vice-director of the land administration bureau in Shangqiu, in the Henan province, his cousin Zhang Jixian and hired killer Xu Huaang were sentenced to death by a municipal court for the death of the official's boss Li Wenzhong
- JANUARY 4, 2000MaliDEATH PENALTY
Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare granted pardon...
Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare granted pardon to former army chief of staff Col Ousmane Coulibaly, who was sentenced to death in 1992 along with former President Moussa Traore after the massacre of pro-democracy protesters in Bamako
- JANUARY 4, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in...
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in Thailand for attempting to smuggle 11
- JANUARY 4, 2000IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraqi refugees have confirmed that government authorities...
Iraqi refugees have confirmed that government authorities executed three officers serving in the Iraqi army on charges of "treason and conspiracy"