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
- AUGUST 31, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Ronald Wayne Frye (see 8/22/01) was put to death by...
Ronald Wayne Frye (see 8/22/01) was put to death by injection at the Central Prison after the governor denied his request for clemency
- AUGUST 31, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
In the preceding 18 months , the Tangerang District...
In the preceding 18 months , the Tangerang District Court handed down death sentences to 13 defendants for drug offences
- AUGUST 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed...
An Iranian sentenced to death for murder was executed in Tehran's Qasr Prison at dawn
- AUGUST 30, 2001Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Judah Akesim, MP for Ambunti-Drekikir, wants police...
Judah Akesim, MP for Ambunti-Drekikir, wants police to give licences to all Papua New Guineans so that everyone should have a gun in his possession
- AUGUST 30, 2001GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International (AI) sent an open letter to the...
Amnesty International (AI) sent an open letter to the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, about the mid-August shooting to death of a father and his son and his nephew
- AUGUST 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Changsha City's Intermediate People's Court carried...
Changsha City's Intermediate People's Court carried out the first trial in a major bombing case, which resulted in five dead and four injured, that occurred in Liuyang City's Dayao Township
- AUGUST 30, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A few years ago, Max Soffar made a fuss when Texas...
A few years ago, Max Soffar made a fuss when Texas prison officials told him that he could not have a rabbi attend him before his execution
- AUGUST 29, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at a parliamentary session Uzbek President...
Speaking at a parliamentary session Uzbek President Islam Karimov put forward some proposals on the ongoing reform of the country's judicial system
- AUGUST 29, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Bakhtar Information Agency reported that a man known...
Bakhtar Information Agency reported that a man known as Adamshah, convicted of murder, was executed
- AUGUST 29, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase presented in Snagov a...
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase presented in Snagov a series of measures for the redress of the economic and social life in Romania including plans to reintroduce the death penalty for drug dealers
- AUGUST 29, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
George Rivas, 31, has been sentenced to die by lethal...
George Rivas, 31, has been sentenced to die by lethal injection for the killing of police Officer Aubrey Hawkins by a Dallas County jury
- AUGUST 29, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
A young Iranian bandit, convicted of having stabbed...
A young Iranian bandit, convicted of having stabbed to death his foreman, ended up hanging on the gallows
- AUGUST 28, 2001EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Demonstrators in the capital city Addis Ababa requested...
Demonstrators in the capital city Addis Ababa requested the government to impose capital punishment against crimes involving rape, assault and sexual harassment
- AUGUST 28, 2001WashingtonDEATH PENALTY
James Homer Elledge, 58, was pronounced dead at 12:52...
James Homer Elledge, 58, was pronounced dead at 12:52 in the Walla Walla Washington State Penitentiary
- AUGUST 28, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Jack Dale Walker, 35, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p
Jack Dale Walker, 35, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p
- AUGUST 28, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
European Member of Parliament Marco Pannella (Italian...
European Member of Parliament Marco Pannella (Italian Radical Party) filed a parliamentary question addressed to the European Commission regarding Mohammad Younus Shaik's case
- AUGUST 28, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Wali Ali Saleh executed in Sana'a for murder...
Abdul Wali Ali Saleh executed in Sana'a for murder of Nasser Ahmed al-Shagdari
- AUGUST 27, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Emmett M. O'Brien sentenced...
St. Louis County Circuit Judge Emmett M. O'Brien sentenced Marcellus Williams to death for the fatal stabbing of former Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle on Aug
- AUGUST 27, 2001UkraineDEATH PENALTY
The mother of a Ukrainian woman named Viktoriya Mamontova...
The mother of a Ukrainian woman named Viktoriya Mamontova appealed to the Council of Europe in trying to get her death sentence revoked
- AUGUST 27, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
A Lehigh County judge has granted a new trial and set...
A Lehigh County judge has granted a new trial and set aside a death sentence for a man who was convicted of setting a 1988 fire that killed his 3 children
- AUGUST 27, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Social Development Minister Datuk S
Social Development Minister Datuk S
- AUGUST 27, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abeed Muhammad Abeed executed in southern Yemen for...
Abeed Muhammad Abeed executed in southern Yemen for murder of Muhammad Ali Muhammad
- AUGUST 26, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Local media reported that four members of a gang in...
Local media reported that four members of a gang in southern China that kidnapped children, mostly babies, and sold them to rural families were executed
- AUGUST 26, 2001BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abdus Sattar was sentenced to death and six others...
Abdus Sattar was sentenced to death and six others to life imprisonment for murdering Masud Ahmed, son of former MP Samsuddin Ahmed Eshaq
- AUGUST 26, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdu Ali Muhammad executed in Ibb province for murder...
Abdu Ali Muhammad executed in Ibb province for murder of Muhammad Mohsen Hassan
- AUGUST 25, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Delhi court sentenced to death Devender Pal Singh,...
A Delhi court sentenced to death Devender Pal Singh, a Sikh militant, for exploding a car bomb near the Indian Youth Congress office in 1993, killing nine persons and injuring 29, including the then president of the organisation, Mr
- AUGUST 25, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Bexar County Judge, Juanita A
A Bexar County Judge, Juanita A
- AUGUST 24, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
White Clifton Allen was pronounced dead at 2:23 a
White Clifton Allen was pronounced dead at 2:23 a
- AUGUST 24, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Ampai Saiphoo, 26, was executed by a pistol shot
Ampai Saiphoo, 26, was executed by a pistol shot
- AUGUST 24, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Sayed...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Sayed bin Mahboub Sayed Amir, an Indian man, was executed for smuggling heroin into the country