Chronological archive
June 2001
The 228 news items published by Hands Off Cain in June 2001, in chronological order.
A recent poll of North Carolinians found that 70% of...
A recent poll of North Carolinians found that 70% of respondents support a moratorium on executions in the state
- JUNE 29, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Milosevic arrived at The Hague
Milosevic arrived at The Hague
- JUNE 29, 2001VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
The Virginia Supreme Court has issued new guidelines...
The Virginia Supreme Court has issued new guidelines slashing the pay of many court-appointed lawyers in death penalty cases: $125 an hour for in-court work and $75 an hour for out-of-court work
- JUNE 29, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A poll of North Carolinians found that 70% of respondents...
A poll of North Carolinians found that 70% of respondents support a moratorium on executions in the state
- JUNE 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight people, who were found guilty of the crimes for...
Eight people, who were found guilty of the crimes for murder, manslaughter, robbery, blackmail, kidnapping and illegally possessing weapons, were sentenced to death and executed in Chaozhou, a city in south China's Guangdong Province
- JUNE 29, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Chief Justice Thomas Zlaket of the Arizona Supreme...
Chief Justice Thomas Zlaket of the Arizona Supreme Court believes some defendants in Arizona have been wrongly convicted
- JUNE 29, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Zhambyl Regional court sentenced to death Mikhail...
The Zhambyl Regional court sentenced to death Mikhail Vagner, 30, accused of being a rapist and serial killer
- JUNE 29, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Contact visits for the best-behaved inmates on California's...
Contact visits for the best-behaved inmates on California's death row have been restored, at least in part, following extensive redesign of the old visiting room
- JUNE 29, 2001IndianaDEATH PENALTY
Citing juror misconduct, a Marion County judge ordered...
Citing juror misconduct, a Marion County judge ordered a new trial for Walter Dye
- JUNE 29, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The deputy chairwoman of the Constitutional Court of...
The deputy chairwoman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Tamara Morshchakova, said she opposes the possible introduction of the death penalty in Russia
- JUNE 29, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-nine public-sentencing rallies were held in...
Twenty-nine public-sentencing rallies were held in Jiangsu to pass judgment, including the death penalty, on 156 drug convicts involved in 114 cases, 62 of which were in Nanjing city
- JUNE 28, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran revolutionary court sentenced to death three...
A Tehran revolutionary court sentenced to death three members of the same family, including a woman, for attempting to hijack an airliner to the United States, the official news agency IRNA said
- JUNE 28, 2001OhioDEATH PENALTY
Judge Mark Schweikert of the Hamilton County Common...
Judge Mark Schweikert of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court sentenced Patrick Leonard to death for killing his girlfriend, Dawn Flick, last July
- JUNE 28, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China denied it harvested organs from executed prisoners,...
China denied it harvested organs from executed prisoners, including from some not quite dead, after a Chinese doctor testified to the U
- JUNE 28, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
A vast majority, 72%, of the 1,600 Russians polled...
A vast majority, 72%, of the 1,600 Russians polled by the All-Russian Public Opinion Centre on June 22-25 believe that capital punishment should exist for grave crimes
- JUNE 28, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A sessions court sentenced to death two sisters who...
A sessions court sentenced to death two sisters who abducted infants from various places in Maharashtra in the 1990s, forced them to commit thefts and subsequently killed them mercilessly
- JUNE 28, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
The court in Rennes ruled that James Kopp, 46, an American...
The court in Rennes ruled that James Kopp, 46, an American fugitive wanted in New York for the murder of Barnett Slepian, an abortion doctor, there in 1998, can be extradited to the United States as long as he would not face the death penalty if convicted
- JUNE 28, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A French court ruled that James Kopp, an American fugitive...
A French court ruled that James Kopp, an American fugitive wanted in New York for the murder of Barnett Slepian, an abortion doctor, there in 1998, can be extradited to the United States
- JUNE 28, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Foreign prisoners' chances of clemency under a Royal...
Foreign prisoners' chances of clemency under a Royal Pardon from Thailand's King may have ended under a tougher government stance against drug traffickers
- JUNE 28, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), an international press...
Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), an international press rights group, condemned the sentencing to death of a Pakistan newspaper editor on drugs charges, calling it an attempt to gag him for his critical reports
- JUNE 28, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The central Ha Tinh Province's Court of Appeal upheld...
The central Ha Tinh Province's Court of Appeal upheld the death sentences passed by a lower court on seven people found guilty of drug trafficking and circulating counterfeit dollars
- JUNE 28, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld a 1997 lower court ruling...
The Tokyo High Court upheld a 1997 lower court ruling that sentenced Tsutomu Miyazaki, a former printing shop assistant, to death for the murder of four girls in 1988-1989 in Tokyo and the neighboring Saitama Prefecture
- JUNE 28, 2001New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
National Radio defended its decision to air chilling...
National Radio defended its decision to air chilling recordings of condemned men being electrocuted in American execution chambers
- JUNE 28, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Wang Guoqi, a Chinese doctor told the House of Representatives...
Wang Guoqi, a Chinese doctor told the House of Representatives subcommittee on human rights that Chinese doctors harvested the organs to profit from foreign transplant patients
- JUNE 28, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia's lower house of parliament raised the problem...
Russia's lower house of parliament raised the problem of the presidential commission for pardons
- JUNE 28, 2001DEATH PENALTY
THE VALENCIA BIENNIAL SUPPORTS JEROME MALLET
June 28, 2001: Hands Off Cain will team up with the Valencia Biennial in a campaign to save Jerome Mallet’s life and relaunch the UN moratorium on executions. Jerome Mallet will be executed on July 11, after 16 years on death row.
- JUNE 27, 2001GermanyDEATH PENALTY
The World Court faulted the United States for violating...
The World Court faulted the United States for violating international rights of two German-born brothers executed in 1999 and ordered Washington to reconsider convictions in any similar cases
- JUNE 27, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
An alleged Bin-Laden group militant appeared before...
An alleged Bin-Laden group militant appeared before the State Security Court on charges of belonging to an extremist ring, months after he was sentenced to death in absentia in a high profile case
- JUNE 27, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution Project's Death Penalty Initiative,...
The Constitution Project's Death Penalty Initiative, a bipartisan committee of death penalty supporters and opponents, released a report calling for reforms in the death penalty system
- JUNE 27, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A senior official with the interior ministry complained...
A senior official with the interior ministry complained that only 233 drug traffickers were hanged in the entire country in the calendar year 1378 (March 1999-2000)
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- JUNE 27, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni man, Jahwi Hussein Qasim Abubakr, escaped...
A Yemeni man, Jahwi Hussein Qasim Abubakr, escaped execution by the sword in Saudi Arabia when his victim's father stood up at the last minute and forgave him
- JUNE 27, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran court sentenced six members of a notorious...
A Tehran court sentenced six members of a notorious gang of robbers to death, the Persian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami reported
- JUNE 27, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wang Guoqi, a Chinese burn specialist seeking political...
Wang Guoqi, a Chinese burn specialist seeking political asylum in the United States said that as a physician in China, he took part in removing corneas and harvesting skin from more than 100 executed prisoners, including one who had not yet died
- JUNE 27, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed the government's...
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed the government's intention to deny drug traffickers on death row the right to request a royal pardon
- JUNE 27, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In a background briefing on the Wang Guoqi's case, the U
In a background briefing on the Wang Guoqi's case, the U
- JUNE 27, 2001GermanyDEATH PENALTY
The World Court faulted the United States for violating...
The World Court faulted the United States for violating international rights of two German-born brothers executed in 1999 and ordered Washington to reconsider convictions in any similar cases
- JUNE 27, 2001IndianaDEATH PENALTY
Jim Lowery, 54, was executed by lethal injection
Jim Lowery, 54, was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 27, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Dragoljub Micunovic, the speaker of the federal parliament's...
Dragoljub Micunovic, the speaker of the federal parliament's chamber of citizens, announced that Yugoslavia could become a member of the Council of Europe by the end of the year
- JUNE 27, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Rehmat Shah Afridi, owner of The Frontier Post was...
Rehmat Shah Afridi, owner of The Frontier Post was sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges
- JUNE 27, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The work of the Russian presidential clemency commission...
The work of the Russian presidential clemency commission has been suspended, and its members have apprehensions that it might be completely dissolved, the commission's head, prominent Russian writer Anatoly Pristavkin, said
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Daily newspaper said that Zhu Qinggang,...
The Shanghai Daily newspaper said that Zhu Qinggang, a 30-year-old trafficker from Sichuan province, was executed "to help mark World Anti-Drug Day"
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
On the International Day against Drug Abuse, the local...
On the International Day against Drug Abuse, the local court of the southern island province of Hainan condemned eight people to death for drug trafficking and trading
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangxi judicial organs publicly executed Chen Falong,...
Guangxi judicial organs publicly executed Chen Falong, Gan Yuan, Liu Aiguo, Huang Weiguang, Jin Xinbao (female), Zhang Mudong (female), Zhong Qiuqi, Zhang Guo, Chen Shichao, Li Kecai, Song Huaqiang, Lin Mingjian, Zhu Yi, Tan Jiming, Zhang Yueqiang, Wang Z
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hong Kong residents Tan Hung-chien and Tan Hao-hui...
Hong Kong residents Tan Hung-chien and Tan Hao-hui were condemned to death by the Guangdong Supreme People's Court
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed at least 56 people for drug crimes and...
China executed at least 56 people for drug crimes and staged mass rallies nationwide to mark a UN anti-drug day
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province...
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province held a judgment pronouncement rally at the Haikou gymnasium
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan's Mianyang city convened a judgment rally to...
Sichuan's Mianyang city convened a judgment rally to showcase the initial results from the "Hurricane-C" centralized operation
- JUNE 26, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A convicted drug trafficker was executed by a firing...
A convicted drug trafficker was executed by a firing squad at the Bangkwang Maximum Security Prison, raising to six the number of drug convicts executed since Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's government took office in February
- JUNE 26, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Miguel "Silky" Richardson, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:28 p
Miguel "Silky" Richardson, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:28 p
- JUNE 26, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court in Vinh City sentenced to...
The Supreme People's Court in Vinh City sentenced to death Le Van Luan, a former senior police officer of Nghe An, after finding him guilty of drug charges
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people found guilty of abducting and selling women...
Six people found guilty of abducting and selling women were executed in Jining City, Inner Mongolia
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province...
The Haikou Intermediate People's Court in Hainan Province found Cao Xiaojun, Yang Qingsong, and Sun Jinglian guilty of murder during a judgment pronouncement rally at the Haikou gymnasium
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Five felons received the death sentence in five cities...
Five felons received the death sentence in five cities of southwest China's Tibet for murder, robbery or bomb attacks
- JUNE 26, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A court in northern Kazakhstan has sentenced a 29-year-old...
A court in northern Kazakhstan has sentenced a 29-year-old man, Oleg Murayenko, to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of murdering six young women in Petropavlovsk between March and November 2000
- JUNE 26, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A federal appeals panel reversed the sentence of David...
A federal appeals panel reversed the sentence of David Murtishaw, who killed Martha Soto, James Henderson and Ingrid Etayo
- JUNE 26, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Allah Mohammad was publicly executed in front of thousands...
Allah Mohammad was publicly executed in front of thousands of onlookers after he had been found guilty of murder
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court confirmed the death sentences...
The Supreme People's Court confirmed the death sentences handed down to He Aizhen and Chen Chun, peasants from Xinhua County in the Hunan Province
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Criminals Mayidaile, Mayahaiya, and Mayiliangsi were...
Criminals Mayidaile, Mayahaiya, and Mayiliangsi were caught when they were trafficking 200, 268, and 738 grams of heroin, respectively, in Urumqi City at different times since the beginning of 2000
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two drug-traffickers were executed following a court...
Two drug-traffickers were executed following a court judgment announced at a rally held in the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China marked the United Nations Anti-Drug Day with...
China marked the United Nations Anti-Drug Day with the execution of at least 50 people for drug crimes and the staging of mass rallies nationwide
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- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The higher and intermediate people's courts in Urumqi...
The higher and intermediate people's courts in Urumqi City held an open sentencing rally and condemned to death a number of heinous criminals
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Urumqi court condemned to death Gan Zexue and Xu...
The Urumqi court condemned to death Gan Zexue and Xu Shuangquan, together with their accomplices for carrying out a violent robbery armed with knives with the intention of taking other people's property illegally
- JUNE 26, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
A Russian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of...
A Russian delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe protested against PACE proposals to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 26, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian regional authorities called for the death penalty...
Russian regional authorities called for the death penalty for drug dealers
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced...
Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced judgment on numerous cases and sentenced to death several drug traffickers
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A public-sentencing rally was held in Hangzhou to pronounce...
A public-sentencing rally was held in Hangzhou to pronounce judgment on 11 alleged drug criminals involved in eight cases - including one death sentence, which was carried out afterwards on Wang Chao
- JUNE 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Tibet Regional Higher People's Court held a news...
The Tibet Regional Higher People's Court held a news conference on public sentencing rallies held in Lhasa City and the prefectures of Xigaze [Shigatse], Shannan, Qamdo, and Nagqu earlier that day
- JUNE 26, 2001Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced...
Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People's Court pronounced judgment on numerous cases and sentenced to death several drug traffickers
- JUNE 25, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwanda has appointed a legal reform commission to examine...
Rwanda has appointed a legal reform commission to examine all existing laws in the country as part of an ongoing preparation for a change of government through elections in 2003
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ningbo judicial organs (Zhejiang Province) held a rally...
Ningbo judicial organs (Zhejiang Province) held a rally to try 27 drug suspects
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The city of Wuhan convicted a group of drug offenders,...
The city of Wuhan convicted a group of drug offenders, sentencing 13 of them to death
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard...
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard campaign, five Taiwanese citizens who had gone to mainland China to manufacture, smuggle and deal drugs, were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad at an execution field in Xiamen
- JUNE 25, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, following His Majesty...
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, following His Majesty the King's comment in favour of harsh punishment for drug traffickers, said that there will be no more royal pardons in drug cases
- JUNE 25, 2001Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for...
China executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, for smuggling more than 136 kilograms of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China
- JUNE 25, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe endorsed an in-house report calling...
The Council of Europe endorsed an in-house report calling for the abolition of the death penalty in Japan and the United States, putting at risk their observer status in the 43-member organization dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights
- JUNE 25, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Europe's leading human rights institution threatened...
Europe's leading human rights institution threatened to revoke observer status from the United States and Japan unless they stop all executions "without delay" and move to repeal the death penalty
- JUNE 25, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard...
During a large-scale meeting held as part of the strike-hard campaign in China, five Taiwanese citizens who had gone to mainland China to manufacture, smuggle and deal drugs, were sentenced to death and executed by firing squad at an execution field in Xi
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
At the end of an open trial, the Qujing Intermediate...
At the end of an open trial, the Qujing Intermediate Court held that Luo Wenyun, Li Caijin, Tao Fusheng, Li Lianglou, Wang Deshou and 11 other criminals jointly and separately committed crimes in 12 cases of raping and robbing in places under the jurisdic
- JUNE 25, 2001KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The Justice Ministry proposed toughening the punishment...
The Justice Ministry proposed toughening the punishment for drug trafficking, the Chairman of the Ministry's Committee on Drugs Serikkali Mukanov said
- JUNE 25, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Yugoslavia has abolished the death penalty, the Belgrade-based...
Yugoslavia has abolished the death penalty, the Belgrade-based Radio B92 text web site reported
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court in Beijing upheld the death...
The Supreme People's Court in Beijing upheld the death sentence given to Li Shaoju, a Myanmar [Burma] citizen for drug trafficking
- JUNE 25, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Alla Dudaeva, the widow of the first Chechen president...
Alla Dudaeva, the widow of the first Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudaev, called on the Nobel Prize Committee to strip Alexander Solzhenitsyn of the title of Nobel laureate because of his speeches in favour of restoring capital punishment for "terrorists"
- JUNE 25, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee approved...
Parliament's Administration and Justice Committee approved a draft law aimed at scrapping the death penalty for deliberate homicide
- JUNE 25, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xian City Intermediate Court pronounced judgment on...
Xian City Intermediate Court pronounced judgment on six drug dealers involved in trafficking 320
- JUNE 24, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network"...
Two members of a "religious fundamentalist network" accused of "armed actions" in Iran including an attack on a senior court official were sentenced to death, the head of Tehran's revolutionary court said
- JUNE 24, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been...
Media reported that 18 people in Chongqing had been executed for drug trafficking
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province,...
Guangzhou Railway Communications Court, Guangdong Province, openly ordered the execution of Li Yougao and six others for drugs crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed...
The Legal Daily reported that 10 people were executed after being sentenced at a mass rally in the southwestern city of Chengdu on drug-related crimes
- JUNE 23, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and...
Former death row inmates, human rights activists and legislators joined thousands of marchers in silence to protest against capital punishment
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- JUNE 23, 2001WashingtonDEATH PENALTY
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially...
King County Superior Court Judge Joan DuBuque officially sentenced to death Dayva Cross, 41
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after...
The 13 year regime of Slobodan Milosevic ended after elections were followed by an uprising by more than half a million people who took to the streets of Belgrade, seized the parliament, and burned down the state television station
- JUNE 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the...
The Yugoslav cabinet approved a decree that paves the way for the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague
- JUNE 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a...
Sichuan Meishan city completed the 4-day trial of a robbery case of an "exceptionally large" criminal gang of 21 members and passed death sentences on 11 suspects, including Min Yongjun and Zeng Wenqing
- JUNE 23, 2001DEATH PENALTY
STRASBOURG, FIRST WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
22 June, 2001: Hands off Cain calls for attention to all those executed whose plight is not known to the world.
- JUNE 22, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called...
Speakers of parliaments from four continents called for a global ban on capital punishment at the first world congress against the death penalty
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven...
In Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province, seven people were executed for a variety of crimes including murder and robbery
- JUNE 22, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Frank Keating proposed a higher standard for capital...
Gov. Frank Keating proposed a higher standard for capital murder convictions, saying "moral certainty" would be more defensible than the current "beyond a reasonable doubt." At a speech at the National Press Club, Keating suggested the higher threshold
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi...
Baoji Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Shaanxi Province, sentenced to death Xu Baosheng and Xia Jialing, managers of Baoji Finance Security Company for embezzlement of public funds and accepting bribes
- JUNE 22, 2001ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International urged the Zambian government...
Amnesty International urged the Zambian government to consider abolishing the death penalty, recalling that the country is signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human rights and the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights
- JUNE 22, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered...
The family of Zainab Saud Aziz, a student murdered by the Sana'a Ripper Mohammed Adam Omar stated they were furious they had not been invited to witness the execution of her killer and that they suspect he had not been executed
- JUNE 22, 2001SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The Public Opinion Research Institute of the Statistic...
The Public Opinion Research Institute of the Statistic Office in Slovakia found 57 percent are in support of the reintroduction of capital punishment in Slovakia
- JUNE 22, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The execution of Saudi national Salim Bin-Majid Bin-Salim...
The execution of Saudi national Salim Bin-Majid Bin-Salim Al Balalayf was carried out in the Al-Aflaj Governorate of Riyadh
- JUNE 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hong Kong...
Wuzhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Hong Kong businessman Pan Wensheng to death with two years stay of execution, and Wuzhou resident Luo Yujun to life imprisonment, both on charges of drug trafficking
- JUNE 21, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
The first world congress against the death penalty...
The first world congress against the death penalty opened in Strasbourg bringing together politicians, lawyers, human rights workers and former death row inmates
- JUNE 21, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
At the first World Congress Against the Death Penalty,...
At the first World Congress Against the Death Penalty, Walter Schwimmer, the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, denounced the United States' use of capital punishment
- JUNE 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Tianjin Municipal Number Two Intermediate People's...
Tianjin Municipal Number Two Intermediate People's Court sentenced to death Deng Chenhui for illegally obtaining insurance funds
- JUNE 21, 2001AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
The execution of triple-murderer Glenn William Holladay...
The execution of triple-murderer Glenn William Holladay was blocked by the U
- JUNE 21, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Sakae Menda, 76, a former Japanese death row inmate...
Sakae Menda, 76, a former Japanese death row inmate who had spent 32 years on death row for a crime he did not commit, appealed to do away with capital punishment worldwide at the opening of the first world congress against the death penalty in Strasbourg
- JUNE 21, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
After beeing approved by Senate it was referred to...
After beeing approved by Senate it was referred to Judiciary Committee at the House the bill (SB 589) to allow inmates to petition the courts to have DNA tests done on available evidence
- JUNE 21, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer...
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer asked Turkey and Russia to sign European Convention of Human Rights protocol no
- JUNE 21, 2001DEATH PENALTY
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It was sent to Governor a bill introduced by Rep
- JUNE 21, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer...
Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Scwimmer asked Turkey and Russia to sign European Convention of Human Rights protocol no
- JUNE 21, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Oleg Mironov, Russian human rights ombudsman, called...
Oleg Mironov, Russian human rights ombudsman, called on politicians to give up "populist slogans" calling for the death penalty to be restored
- JUNE 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The judicial and public security departments of Jieyang...
The judicial and public security departments of Jieyang city and Jiexi county jointly held a public rally to announce the verdicts for several alleged criminals
- JUNE 20, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that the Uganda Prisons Service recruited...
It was revealed that the Uganda Prisons Service recruited six hangmen to undergo specialised training in carrying out executions
- JUNE 20, 2001EgyptDEATH PENALTY
A Giza criminal court sentenced to death four men who...
A Giza criminal court sentenced to death four men who had raped a woman in front of her husband
- JUNE 20, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Police condemned to death nine drug dealers caught...
Police condemned to death nine drug dealers caught with as little as two ounces of heroin in front of 10,000 spectators at a sports stadium in south China's Nanning City
- JUNE 20, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Seven convicted Iranian murderers were to be hanged...
Seven convicted Iranian murderers were to be hanged simultaneously in Tehran's eastern Qasr prison, but three managed to escape death just minutes ahead of the execution
- JUNE 20, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Sudanese morgue worker who was convicted of kidnapping,...
A Sudanese morgue worker who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering two female students at Sanaa University was executed
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- JUNE 20, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Miyazaki District Court sentenced a 44-year-old...
The Miyazaki District Court sentenced a 44-year-old woman to death for murdering and robbing two women in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1996 and 1997 and abandoning their bodies
- JUNE 20, 2001KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
The Kyrgyz military court sentenced Russian citizen...
The Kyrgyz military court sentenced Russian citizen Ruslan Abdulin and Tajik citizen Ravshan Sharipov to death
- JUNE 20, 2001EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's criminal court sentenced two Egyptian nationals...
Jordan's criminal court sentenced two Egyptian nationals to death, including one tried in absentia, after convicting them of robbing and murdering a compatriot in Amman in December 1998
- JUNE 20, 2001JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jordan's criminal court sentenced two Egyptian nationals...
Jordan's criminal court sentenced two Egyptian nationals to death, including one tried in absentia, after convicting them of robbing and murdering a compatriot in Amman in December 1998
- JUNE 19, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
Juan Raul Garza was executed by lethal injection at...
Juan Raul Garza was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, eight days after the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
- JUNE 19, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Egyptian farm worker who was...
Saudi Arabia executed an Egyptian farm worker who was convicted of beating to death a Pakistani colleague and then setting the corpse on fire, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- JUNE 19, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Hassab Abbas Hosseinzadeh, convicted of murder and...
Hassab Abbas Hosseinzadeh, convicted of murder and drug trafficking, was hanged in public in the western province of Lorestan
- JUNE 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Anti-drug authorities in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous...
Anti-drug authorities in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region held a grand gathering in front of an audience of 10,000 who witnessed the burning of 31 kg of drugs of various kinds
- JUNE 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Hubei Daily reported that twenty convicts, including...
The Hubei Daily reported that twenty convicts, including murderers, were executed in Wuhan after a public sentencing rally attended by thousands of spectators
- JUNE 19, 2001OhioDEATH PENALTY
Conservative Republicans have been speaking out against...
Conservative Republicans have been speaking out against the state's use of capital punishment
- JUNE 19, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance...
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said the number of executions officially announced by the mullah's regime since the beginning of 2001 is 134
- JUNE 19, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Juan Garza second federal victim in 8 days
June 19th: Juan Raul Garza was executed by Federal authorities in Terre Haute, Indiana on Tuesday morning
- JUNE 18, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Qasem was publicly executed in the Shindand...
Mohammad Qasem was publicly executed in the Shindand district
- JUNE 18, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of raping...
Saudi Arabia executed an Indian man convicted of raping and strangling to death a four-year-old girl, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- JUNE 18, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan sentenced for armed robbery, multiple rape...
An Afghan sentenced for armed robbery, multiple rape and kidnappings and terrorist activities was beheaded in public
- JUNE 18, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Sverdlovsk region governor Eduard Rossel proposed to...
Sverdlovsk region governor Eduard Rossel proposed to introduce the death penalty for drug trafficking on the entire territory of the Urals Federal District for five to six years
- JUNE 18, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain launched its 2001 Reporton the death penalty
Hands Off Cain launched its 2001 Reporton the death penalty
- JUNE 18, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Thabet Abdo Saleh executed by firing squad in al-Dali...
Thabet Abdo Saleh executed by firing squad in al-Dali for killing three people
- JUNE 18, 2001DEATH PENALTY
The death penalty’s dark side revealed
June 18, 2001: the current impasse within the United Nations regarding a resolution on the death penalty must be overcome, declared the Italian Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Margherita Boniver at the launch of the 2001 Report
- JUNE 17, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A bill to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded...
A bill to prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded in Texas was vetoed by Governor Rick Perry
- JUNE 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A drug trafficker was hanged for killing a member of...
A drug trafficker was hanged for killing a member of the Islamic Basij militia forces in the northeastern border province of Khorassan, the afternoon Kayhan paper reported
- JUNE 17, 2001KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait hanged 24 year old Qadeer Kaleeja, an Indian...
Kuwait hanged 24 year old Qadeer Kaleeja, an Indian maid, for strangling her elderly employer and stealing her jewelry
- JUNE 16, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdol Momen was publicly executed for murder in Baghis...
Abdol Momen was publicly executed for murder in Baghis province
- JUNE 16, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Vasco Rossi, an Italian rock star dedicated its summer...
Vasco Rossi, an Italian rock star dedicated its summer tour to Hands off Cain
- JUNE 16, 2001AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
William Bowen Jr
William Bowen Jr
- JUNE 16, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwanda's justice minister said that a Rwandan court...
Rwanda's justice minister said that a Rwandan court sentenced nine ethnic Hutus to death at a mass trial for more than 100 suspects accused of involvement in the country's 1994 genocide
- JUNE 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
State television reported that twelve drug traffickers...
State television reported that twelve drug traffickers were sentenced to death
- JUNE 16, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain presents the 2001 Report on the death penalty
June 16, 2001: the most shocking facts on capital executions, the fight for abolition, the UN debate on a resolution for a global moratorium: the 2001 Report gives a comprehensive overview on the practice of the death penalty all over the world.
- JUNE 15, 2001KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Senior Resident Magistrate Kiare Waweru sentenced Evans...
Senior Resident Magistrate Kiare Waweru sentenced Evans Mochache for robbing a child of over 6,000 shillings with the use of a knife
- JUNE 15, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded on four men who were among seven...
Saudi Arabia beheaded on four men who were among seven Saudis convicted of drug trading and killing a policeman, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
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- JUNE 15, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The All-Party Parliamentary Accord Commission had reached...
The All-Party Parliamentary Accord Commission had reached a consensus on 37 of 51 proposed constitutional amendments
- JUNE 15, 2001KenyaDEATH PENALTY
According to a report released by the standing committee...
According to a report released by the standing committee on human rights the six inmates found dead at Kig'ong'o Prison in September 2000 were murdered by prison guards
- JUNE 15, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi man was beheaded for shooting dead his father,...
A Saudi man was beheaded for shooting dead his father, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- JUNE 14, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Intermediate People's Courts of Sichuan's Meishan...
The Intermediate People's Courts of Sichuan's Meishan and Nanchong cities, sentenced to death Fang Ji and Lo Xiaolin, the ringleaders of two criminal organizations headed by which operated like criminal syndicates
- JUNE 14, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Jay D
Jay D
- JUNE 14, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Governor Rick Perry signed the Texas Fair Defense Act...
Governor Rick Perry signed the Texas Fair Defense Act approved by the House on May 16 and by Senate in April
- JUNE 14, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported a Saudi man...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported a Saudi man was beheaded for stabbing dead a compatriot during a fight after the two left school
- JUNE 14, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The European Union commissioner for external affairs...
The European Union commissioner for external affairs Chris Patten called on the Palestinian Authority to stop using fast-track security courts to impose death sentences
- JUNE 14, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya High Court sentenced two men to death for...
The Nagoya High Court sentenced two men to death for double murder and robbery in 1994 and 1995
- JUNE 14, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug...
Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug charges
- JUNE 14, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia executed eight...
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia executed eight men on the Afghan-Tajik border in full view of Russian border guards, a Russian military source in the Tajik capital Dushanbe said
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A delegation of the European Parliament PES Group visited...
A delegation of the European Parliament PES Group visited China at the end of May, on the invitation of the Communist Party and the Chinese Government
- JUNE 13, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
John Wheat was executed by lethal injection
John Wheat was executed by lethal injection
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The leader of a grave-robbing gang that blasted its...
The leader of a grave-robbing gang that blasted its way into a 2,000-year-old tomb was sentenced to death by a Henan court
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight members of the largest-ever organised crime ring...
Eight members of the largest-ever organised crime ring in Gansu province were put to death
- JUNE 13, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court maintained the...
Gansu Provincial Higher People's Court maintained the original jurisdiction and ordered the execution of "principal gangsters", Li Jie, Li Hui and six other gangsters including Cui Zhibiao and Ding Li
- JUNE 13, 2001BurundiDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that criminal courts across Burundi,...
It was reported that criminal courts across Burundi, notably in the towns of Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi sentenced a total of 20 people to death in the month of May alone, for manslaughter
- JUNE 13, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister John Howard said that Australia was...
Prime Minister John Howard said that Australia was unlikely ever to reintroduce the death penalty
- JUNE 12, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
MP Bernard Birsinger presented a bill for the institution...
MP Bernard Birsinger presented a bill for the institution of the international day against the death penalty
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death...
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death by an appellate court in Seoul for two counts of murder and eight counts of robbery
- JUNE 12, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death...
A Chinese industrial trainee was sentenced to death by an appellate court in Seoul for two counts of murder and eight counts of robbery
- JUNE 12, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Jeb Bush approved a law that bans executions of...
Gov. Jeb Bush approved a law that bans executions of mentally retarded prisoners. On May 4, the House passed the bill 110-1
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Fuzhou (Fujian Province) Municipal Intermediate People's...
Fuzhou (Fujian Province) Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zheng Ping, the female director of the Fuqing Customs Office, to death for accepting bribes of 898,000 yuan, 4,000 Hong Kong dollars and 89,000 yuan worth of valuables
- JUNE 12, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China, which executes more people each year than any...
China, which executes more people each year than any another country, was restrained in its reaction to America's execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11
- JUNE 12, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Jeremy Sheets, has been released from Nebraska's death row
Jeremy Sheets, has been released from Nebraska's death row
- JUNE 11, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death...
Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was put to death by lethal injection at the Terre Haute federal penitentiary in Indiana at 7a
- JUNE 11, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch demonstrated...
The Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch demonstrated in protest of the execution of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh
- JUNE 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have...
China's highest court and prosecutor's office have issued a legal interpretation permitting use of the death penalty and harsh anti-subversion laws to punish followers of the banned Falun Gong, in a decision that may signal a new round of trials of group
- JUNE 11, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain militants protested against McVeigh's...
Hands Off Cain militants protested against McVeigh's and Garza's execution in front of the American embassy in Rome
- JUNE 11, 2001DEATH PENALTY
President Bush said: "the death penalty should never...
President Bush said: "the death penalty should never be applied to any individual who is metally retarded"
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- JUNE 11, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Timothy McVeigh pronounced dead at 14:14 CET
June 11, 2001: Hands Off Cain protested at the American embassy in Rome against the first federal execution in the United States in 38 years.
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies...
In a nationwide order to local law-enforcement agencies the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate broadly reinterpret murder and subversion statutes for use in prosecution of Falun Gong adherents
- JUNE 10, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to...
The Foshan Intermediate People's Court, sentenced to death five out of the 15 members of a gang convicted of running drug laboratories and selling more than 100,000 tablets of Ecstasy in Guangdong
- JUNE 8, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council...
The Swedish Presidency of the EU, represented by Council President Anna Lindh, outlined, during the meeting with the head of Chinese diplomacy Tang Jiaxuan in Beijing , the Union's grievances - torture, death penalty, police brutality, barriers to freedom
- JUNE 8, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
A 37-year-old man stabbed eight children to death with...
A 37-year-old man stabbed eight children to death with a kitchen knife and injured 15 other people, including two teachers, at an elementary school in Ikeda in the Osaka Prefecture
- JUNE 8, 2001SpainDEATH PENALTY
A Spaniard who had been on Florida's death row since...
A Spaniard who had been on Florida's death row since 1997 after being convicted of a double murder was been acquitted in a new trial
- JUNE 8, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The Saudi Interior Ministry said that the Islamic Shari'ah...
The Saudi Interior Ministry said that the Islamic Shari'ah Court had found Salim Bin-Da'san al-Utawi, a Saudi national, guilty of murdering his compatriot Ahmad Bin-Mansur Bin-Dagriri and sentenced him to death
- JUNE 8, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Gaya court convicted nine of the 13 accused in the...
A Gaya court convicted nine of the 13 accused in the Bara massacre case giving the death sentence to four, life imprisonment to as many and 10-year's rigorous imprisonment to one
- JUNE 8, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain to demonstrate against McVeigh execution
Hands off Cain will protest Timothy McVeigh’s execution on Monday, June 11 in front of the American Embassy in Rome. McVeigh’s will be the first US federal execution since 1963.
- JUNE 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
The Justice Department has released a study five days...
The Justice Department has released a study five days before the first federal execution in 37 years claiming that there is no racial bias in federal capital prosecutions
- JUNE 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province,...
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province, as part of the Strike Hard campaign, which has seen more than 1,000 executed in two months
- JUNE 7, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
"Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation" host...
"Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation" host its first national gathering June 7-10 at Boston College
- JUNE 7, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed...
Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed at the Taipei Prison, five years after he was arrested and escorted back to Taiwan from Thailand
- JUNE 7, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The overwhelming majority of the Iranian people will...
The overwhelming majority of the Iranian people will boycott the mullahs' election farce, Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in a statement
- JUNE 7, 2001IrelandDEATH PENALTY
June 7; 2001: the proposal to remove the death penalty...
June 7; 2001: the proposal to remove the death penalty from the Constitution obtained only 62
- JUNE 7, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A group of religious leaders met with the leaders of...
A group of religious leaders met with the leaders of political parties to seek their support for a campaign to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 7, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Talal Ali al-Asem executed in Sana'a for the murder...
Talal Ali al-Asem executed in Sana'a for the murder of Nasser Ahmed Hussein
- JUNE 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
McVeigh refused stay of execution
June 7, 2001: Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will be executed on June 11, unless the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch’s decision
- JUNE 6, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei...
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei Province, sentenced to death Hu Shan, director of the post office customs unit, and sentenced to death with a reprieve Xu Guoyan , chief of the financial section of Wuhan customs
- JUNE 6, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Iran's revolution court sentenced...
It was reported that Iran's revolution court sentenced to death Gholam Reza Ameli, the gang leader of an ultra-orthodox group engaged in a spate of terrorist attacks
- JUNE 6, 2001ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
Governor John Rowland signed a bill to prohibit the...
Governor John Rowland signed a bill to prohibit the execution of those with mental retardation
- JUNE 6, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in...
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in the case of Bongani Mkhwanazi, a South African sentenced to death for murder
- JUNE 6, 2001EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in...
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in the case of Bongani Mkhwanazi, a South African sentenced to death for murder
- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a...
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a public rally to sentence to death the three "triad" leaders Ding Xu, Lu Zhongling and Huang Jie
- JUNE 6, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Joaquin Martinez, a Spanish citizen, and former death...
Joaquin Martinez, a Spanish citizen, and former death row inmate was acquitted of all charges at his retrial for a 1995 murder in Florida
- JUNE 5, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced...
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced to death for drug trafficking after ruling there were "too many contradictions and inconsistencies" in his case
- JUNE 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single...
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single day in the in the central Chinese city of Chongqing
- JUNE 5, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Five people were given the death sentence by the first...
Five people were given the death sentence by the first additional judge for killing five members of a family in Madhepura district in 1997
- JUNE 5, 2001IrelandDEATH PENALTY
An American murderer on death row called on the Irish...
An American murderer on death row called on the Irish people to abolish the death penalty in the June 7 referendum
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- JUNE 5, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced...
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced to death for drug trafficking after ruling there were "too many contradictions and inconsistencies" in his case
- JUNE 5, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The public execution of rebels, proposed by North Caucasian...
The public execution of rebels, proposed by North Caucasian military district commander General Gennady Troshev, would be akin to the Sharia courts that have repeatedly executed women and children in public, the Ataman of the Terek Cossack Troop Vasily Bo
- JUNE 5, 2001DEATH PENALTY
US Supreme Court overturns retarded man’s death sentence
June 4, 2001: jurors were not given a chance to consider Texas inmate Johnny Paul Penry’s mental retardation as a mitigating factor, the Court ruled.
- JUNE 4, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Six Diet members from various political parties opposing...
Six Diet members from various political parties opposing capital punishment met with Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama to request that she make efforts to have the death penalty abolished and allow them to tour execution sites, Justice Ministry officials s
- JUNE 4, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The mother of a boy who was found murdered in a cane...
The mother of a boy who was found murdered in a cane paddock near Innisfail in 1993 has said she does not support the reintroduction of capital punishment
- JUNE 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechen Duma deputy Aslanbek Aslakhanov said he is...
Chechen Duma deputy Aslanbek Aslakhanov said he is ready to resign if the situation in his home republic does not change for the better
- JUNE 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Presidential Pardons Commission, which has been...
The Presidential Pardons Commission, which has been operating for nine and a half years, may soon cease operating, rumours reported by the Nezavisimaya Gazeta said
- JUNE 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
General Gennady Troshev, commander of Russia's North...
General Gennady Troshev, commander of Russia's North Caucasus Military District, said life imprisonment is too mild a punishment for Chechen terrorists who have killed dozens of civilians
- JUNE 4, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian President Mohammad Khatami voiced opposition...
The Iranian President Mohammad Khatami voiced opposition to a call for executing a death decree against British author Salman Rushdie
- JUNE 4, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbian Justice Minister, Vladan Batic, said that Serbia...
Serbian Justice Minister, Vladan Batic, said that Serbia had accepted Council of Europe and EU demands to strike the death penalty from the republican penal code as a condition for membership of the institutions
- JUNE 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the...
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the sentences on a 40-strong criminal syndicate
- JUNE 1, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
The Iraqi penal code sentences to the death penalty...
The Iraqi penal code sentences to the death penalty :- anyone attempting to murder the president (article 223)
- JUNE 1, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty has been in force in the Iraqi legal...
The death penalty has been in force in the Iraqi legal system since 1921, following the foundation of the Iraqi State (1920), its field of application has been extended since the taking of power by the Baath party in 1968 and since 1979, the year marking
- JUNE 1, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling condemning...
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling condemning Shinichi Shimoyama to death for his 1993 crime orgy in which he killed and robbed three people across Japan
- JUNE 1, 2001ChileDEATH PENALTY
The European Union welcomed the promulgation by the...
The European Union welcomed the promulgation by the President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, of a law abolishing the death penalty in time of peace
- JUNE 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death...
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death sentence handed down to the former police chief of Liuzhou city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- JUNE 1, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Military Tribunal sentenced five members of the...
The Military Tribunal sentenced five members of the South Lebanon Army militia to death in absentia for killing resistance fighters who fought Israeli troops during the occupation of the South