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
- 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)
- 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