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
- JULY 9, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Shawn Ryan Grell, 26, who murdered his 2-year-old daughter...
Shawn Ryan Grell, 26, who murdered his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced to death
- JULY 9, 2001VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
The judge upheld the jury's recommendation for Jeffrey...
The judge upheld the jury's recommendation for Jeffrey Allen Thomas
- JULY 9, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man and his Yemeni accomplice...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man and his Yemeni accomplice for killing a man with a meat cleaver in a row over money
- JULY 9, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya District Court sentenced one of three defendants...
The Nagoya District Court sentenced one of three defendants to death for killing four men over a period of eleven days in 1994 in the Gifu, Aichi and Osaka prefectures
- JULY 9, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Alarmed over the spate of rape and murder cases involving...
Alarmed over the spate of rape and murder cases involving girls, angry Malaysians called for severe action against the culprits - including imposing a mandatory death sentence for violent crimes against girls
- JULY 9, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin's...
Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin's administration, insisted that Russia has to uphold its moratorium on the death penalty
- JULY 9, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia is fully observing its moratorium on the death...
Russia is fully observing its moratorium on the death penalty, the head of the country's Constitutional Court said
- JULY 9, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
President Vladimir Putin, invoking the God-given right...
President Vladimir Putin, invoking the God-given right to life, said that Russia had to uphold its five-year-old moratorium on the death penalty despite widespread calls to reinstate executions to fight crime
- JULY 8, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Federal Judge Michael Ponsor wrote about his experience...
Federal Judge Michael Ponsor wrote about his experience presiding over the case of Kristen Gilbert, a former nurse accused of murdering 4 patients at a veterans' hospital
- JULY 8, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told a visiting...
Armenian President Robert Kocharyan told a visiting Council of Europe official in Yerevan that Armenia would not carry out death sentences
- JULY 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Public support of the death penalty runs high in China
Public support of the death penalty runs high in China
- JULY 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people from April to June 2001...
China executed more people from April to June 2001 than the rest of the world did in the past three years - 1,781 people put to death in a government campaign against crime, Amnesty International said
- JULY 6, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish officials unveiled a new penal code that abolishes...
Turkish officials unveiled a new penal code that abolishes the death penalty and eliminates laws under which intellectuals and politicians were jailed for expressing opinions contrary to official government policy
- JULY 6, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Khaled...
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that Khaled bin Nasser al-Khaledi was beheaded for abducting and raping a boy after getting drunk
- JULY 6, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
President Abdurrahman Wahid disclosed his plan to deport...
President Abdurrahman Wahid disclosed his plan to deport nine foreigners who had been sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia as a part of the country's international role in combating the drugs
- JULY 6, 2001DelawareDEATH PENALTY
A Superior Court judge, Fred S
A Superior Court judge, Fred S
- JULY 6, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nine northern Nigerian states have adopted the Sharia code
Nine northern Nigerian states have adopted the Sharia code
- JULY 6, 2001DEATH PENALTY
NEW TURKISH PENAL CODE ABOLISHES THE DEATH PENALTY
July 06, 2001: Turkish officials on Friday unveiled a new penal code that abolishes the death penalty and eliminates laws under which intellectuals and politicians were jailed for expressing opinions contrary to official government policy.
- JULY 5, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Adnan Maleknejad, 26, convicted of murdering a man...
Adnan Maleknejad, 26, convicted of murdering a man five years ago, was hanged at dawn in the yard of a prison in Ilam in western Iran, IRNA said
- JULY 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese official admitted that 14 Falun Gong followers...
A Chinese official admitted that 14 Falun Gong followers died in a labour camp - but the government and the spiritual movement have given sharply conflicting accounts of how they died
- JULY 5, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Eighty percent of Russians think that the death penalty...
Eighty percent of Russians think that the death penalty is permissible, the Public Opinion Foundation said based on a June 30 poll of 1,500 village and town residents nationwide
- JULY 5, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Uzbek newspaper Na Postu reported that a man named as A
The Uzbek newspaper Na Postu reported that a man named as A
- JULY 5, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamad Deraman, a 31 year old lorry driver, was sentenced...
Mohamad Deraman, a 31 year old lorry driver, was sentenced to death by the High Court for murdering businessman Ismail Sulaiman in Chini, Pekan, in 1999
- JULY 5, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
1 death row inmate, condemned for a 1980 Jacksonville...
1 death row inmate, condemned for a 1980 Jacksonville murder, won a new trial
- JULY 5, 2001BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
During the extraordinary session the European Parliament...
During the extraordinary session the European Parliament passed Resolution No
- JULY 4, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Nayereh Tohidi, a lecturer at the University of California...
Nayereh Tohidi, a lecturer at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), says stoning is a double-standard punishment: "There is a double standard here, even though the practice is applied to both men and women, because it is usually a punishment
- JULY 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xinhua news agency, the official Chinese government...
Xinhua news agency, the official Chinese government agency, denied allegations regarding organs being transplanted from executed prisoners
- JULY 4, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Pong Ketsiri, 64, was executed by a firing squad in...
Pong Ketsiri, 64, was executed by a firing squad in a Bangkok prison after being convicted of smuggling 275lb of heroin into Thailand
- JULY 4, 2001BeninDEATH PENALTY
Government officials said that they had decided to...
Government officials said that they had decided to replace the colonial criminal code with a new law, PANA news agency reported
- JULY 4, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Two Yemenis were executed separately in Lahj and Mahweet...
Two Yemenis were executed separately in Lahj and Mahweet provinces for premeditated murder, according a statement by the public prosecution