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
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
New Zealand's Corrections Minister Matt Robson and...
New Zealand's Corrections Minister Matt Robson and Justice Minister Phil Goff raised their concerns about China's use of the death penalty, and its incarceration of political prisoners during a meeting with visiting Chinese Justice Minister Zhang Fusen
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and...
Two Chinese Haw tribesmen, Ar-hong sae Soo, 27, and Ar-sing sae Lee, 28, and a Burmese drug dealer, Ar-liang sae Chern, 28, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The murder toll continues to fall in the Philippines,...
The murder toll continues to fall in the Philippines, with an average of eight people slain every day in the first half of the year
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A top Turkish judge, Appeals Court chief judge Sami...
A top Turkish judge, Appeals Court chief judge Sami Selcuk, said the country should draw up a new constitution instead of "wasting time" amending the present charter to bring it into line with European Union standards
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001DEATH PENALTY
The constitutional amendment bill been presented to...
The constitutional amendment bill been presented to the Parliament Chairmanship proposes a number of changes in capital punishment, freedom of thought, political party closures and the authority of the President
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The former head of the Minsk detention centre, Aleh...
The former head of the Minsk detention centre, Aleh Alkayew, revealed the circumstances behind the reports linking high-ranking officials to the disappearance of prominent opposition figures
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
A lawyer from the central Serbian town of Paracin was...
A lawyer from the central Serbian town of Paracin was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a 19-year old girl in 1996
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is not a punishment and should be...
The death penalty is not a punishment and should be scrapped from Uganda laws, the director of human resources at the Bank of Uganda, Magala Nyago, said
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
State District Judge Bonnie Jackson granted Leroy V
State District Judge Bonnie Jackson granted Leroy V
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Addressing the UN World Conference Against Racism,...
Addressing the UN World Conference Against Racism, non-governmental organizations called for urgent action by member states to combat discrimination
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The Washington Post said that this year marked the...
The Washington Post said that this year marked the first time since the death penalty was restored in 1976 that executions had dropped significantly nationwide for two years in a row
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001DEATH PENALTY
US executions drop for the second straight year
September 6, 2001: executions in the United States have decreased for the second consecutive year, with sharp declines in leading death penalty states Texas and Virginia.
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular...
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association expressed their concern at the death sentence passed in Pakistan on Dr Younus Shaikh, lecturer, peace activist and founder of the progressive group Enligh
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China imposes the death penalty for hacking and other...
China imposes the death penalty for hacking and other cyber crimes
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
A senior Taleban official has warned that foreign aid...
A senior Taleban official has warned that foreign aid workers on trial in Afghanistan on charges of preaching Christianity could be executed
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three dadah traffickers facing the death sentence escaped...
Three dadah traffickers facing the death sentence escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal allowed their appeals
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting...
An Iranian, sentenced to death for the fatal shooting of a mother and her son, was hanged in public in northeastern Tehran before the eyes of hundreds of onlookers
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Three men who stabbed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, 42, to...
Three men who stabbed cabby Koh Ngiap Yong, 42, to death with a bayonet in August 2000 were sentenced to hang
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001North MacedoniaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch accused the overwhelmingly Slavic...
Human Rights Watch accused the overwhelmingly Slavic forces of Macedonia's government of summary execution of ethnic Albanian civilians, arson and torture, the New York Times said
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven...
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven years and this is indicative of a policy that is encouraging for the Bulgarian medics tried in Tripoli, National Assembly Chairman Ognyan Gerdzhikov, said in a meeting with the families of the medics
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven...
Libya hasn't executed a death penalty in the last seven years and this is indicative of a policy that is encouraging for the Bulgarian medics tried in Tripoli, National Assembly Chairman Ognyan Gerdzhikov, said in a meeting with the families of the medics
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost...
Ukraine asked the Council of Europe to do its utmost and make Thailand's authorities vacate the death sentence to Ukrainian citizen Viktoria Mamontova
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two senior executives of real estate companies were...
Two senior executives of real estate companies were each given a death sentence with a two-year reprieve and life imprisonment by the Beijing No 1 Intermediate Court
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular...
The British Humanist Association, the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association expressed their concern at the death sentence passed in Pakistan on Dr Younus Shaikh, lecturer, peace activist and founder of the progressive group Enligh
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
In Ibb province, Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah executed in...
In Ibb province, Muhammad Ahmed Abdullah executed in Ibb province for murdering Muhammad Ali Ghaleb, Hassan Masad al-Mahmudi for killing Mukhtar Ali Abdul Hamid, and Abdullah Hezaa Auqlan for murdering Hezaa Auqlan Hassan (not clear whether Auqlan and Has
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was presented with an honorary...
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Law at the University of Wolverhampton for his 20-year campaign against the death penalty in the US
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tang Minh Phung and Pham Nhat Hong were sentenced to...
Tang Minh Phung and Pham Nhat Hong were sentenced to death for appropriating VND32 billion from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of Vietnam-HCMC branch
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said...
The chief justice of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said the trial of eight foreign aid workers accused of promoting Christianity had begun
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called on...
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called on the United States to follow the example of the African National Congress in South Africa, in getting the death penalty abolished