Archive timeline
2001
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2001, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2001
- DECEMBER 19, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
Zacarias Moussaoui was brought to the federal court...
Zacarias Moussaoui was brought to the federal court where he will face charges of taking part in the conspiracy to attack New York City and Washington
- DECEMBER 19, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Leroy Stallworth, 26, was resentenced to life in prison...
Leroy Stallworth, 26, was resentenced to life in prison for killing on Jan
- DECEMBER 19, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Judge David N
Judge David N
- DECEMBER 19, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The House approved legislation to implement 2 international...
The House approved legislation to implement 2 international anti- terrorism treaties over the objections of some Democrats who warned that the creation of new death penalties could cause problems with American allies
- DECEMBER 19, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranians, convicted of murder, were sent to the...
Three Iranians, convicted of murder, were sent to the gallows at the Tehran Qasr Prison, while the fourth was pardoned while the noose was on his neck
- DECEMBER 19, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
An appeal court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced...
An appeal court upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced a former newspaper deliveryman to death for murdering a woman and her elderly mother in Tokyo after they refused to lend him money
- DECEMBER 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The former vice-mayor of Shenyang in China's northeastern...
The former vice-mayor of Shenyang in China's northeastern province of Liaoning and the city's former deputy finance chief were executed for corruption and embezzlement, official media reported
- DECEMBER 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A former official of a Communist Party school in Beijing...
A former official of a Communist Party school in Beijing was sentenced to death for having his nephew kill his boss, the People's Daily reported
- DECEMBER 18, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A legal practitioner and former Chairman of the Kaduna...
A legal practitioner and former Chairman of the Kaduna branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Daniel Enwelum, said that Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has no constitutional rights to stop the execution of the death sentence on Safiya Hussain,
- DECEMBER 18, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
Vice President Richard B
Vice President Richard B
- DECEMBER 18, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing...
The state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Gary Wayne Long, who was given a death sentence for killing his mother, Wilma Yates Lowder in January 1998
- DECEMBER 18, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
U.S. District Judge William Yohn overturned Pennsylvania...
U.S. District Judge William Yohn overturned Pennsylvania death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence
- DECEMBER 18, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The White House said that the U
The White House said that the U
- DECEMBER 18, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A draft amendment bill to change the method of execution...
A draft amendment bill to change the method of execution from shooting to lethal injection is ready to go before parliament for approval
- DECEMBER 18, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death for "cold-bloodedly" murdering...
A man was sentenced to death for "cold-bloodedly" murdering three people in eastern Uzbekistan, the Uzbek newspaper Inson va Qonun reported
- DECEMBER 18, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Utsunomiya District Court sentenced to death a...
The Utsunomiya District Court sentenced to death a 35-year-old man for murdering his wife and an acquaintance in the late 1980s in Tochigi Prefecture
- DECEMBER 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man who set off three bombs that killed six people...
A man who set off three bombs that killed six people and injured three others to seek revenge against three of his doctors had been sentenced to death, the Beijing Morning Post said
- DECEMBER 18, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Staff and students at a Birmingham university are to...
Staff and students at a Birmingham university are to help carry out a major study of death penalty practices across America following a cash boost from the British Government
- DECEMBER 18, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Staff and students at a Birmingham university are to...
Staff and students at a Birmingham university are to help carry out a major study of death penalty practices across America following a cash boost from the British Government
- DECEMBER 18, 2001DEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN
December 18, 2001: Hands Off Cain will host a press conference tomorrow to discuss the possible judiciary measures to be taken against Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda terrorists with ICTY and ICTR Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and photographer Oliviero To
- DECEMBER 17, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Nigerian Coalition of Women's Rights and Economic...
The Nigerian Coalition of Women's Rights and Economic Empowerment (CWREE) picked holes in the shari'ah court judgment that sentenced Safiya Hussaini, to death, saying that the death penalty runs counter to the constitution of all known international laws
- DECEMBER 17, 2001MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco's King Mohammed pardoned 1,144 people, on the...
Morocco's King Mohammed pardoned 1,144 people, on the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan
- DECEMBER 17, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A judge in Tarlac City meted out the death penalty...
A judge in Tarlac City meted out the death penalty to a man for raping his 19-year-old granddaughter in La Paz town in March
- DECEMBER 17, 2001SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain said it will take anti-terrorist cooperation...
Spain said it will take anti-terrorist cooperation with the United States and Russia "beyond words" after it assumes the rotating presidency of the European Union early in 2002, Foreign Minister Josep Pique said
- DECEMBER 17, 2001GrenadaDEATH PENALTY
A prominent church leader was sentenced to death in...
A prominent church leader was sentenced to death in the murder of a 15-year-old girl who had attended his church for years
- DECEMBER 17, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Mubende, Uganda, sentenced to death...
The High Court in Mubende, Uganda, sentenced to death two men for robbery and murder
- DECEMBER 17, 2001OhioDEATH PENALTY
Common Pleas Judge Neal Bronson threw out a jury's...
Common Pleas Judge Neal Bronson threw out a jury's recommendation of death for twice-convicted killer Timothy Hancock after he discovered that they had viewed potentially inflammatory exhibits in deciding the inmate's fate
- DECEMBER 16, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Gul Agha Shirzai, the new governor of Kandahar, according...
Gul Agha Shirzai, the new governor of Kandahar, according to multiple accounts, ordered the summary execution of foreign-born Taliban soldiers captured in the last month
- DECEMBER 16, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Rapists, especially those who raped young children,...
Rapists, especially those who raped young children, should be given the death sentence, said Sylvia Farmer, whose teenage daughter Valencia Farmer was gang-raped, stabbed numerous times and left dead in a derelict house on the Cape Flats
- DECEMBER 16, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
An Islamic court told Safiya Hussaini, who was sentenced...
An Islamic court told Safiya Hussaini, who was sentenced to die after being found guilty of adultery, that her life will be spared if she can prove her daughter Adama, who is now almost a year old, was the result of rape