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 8, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The Saudi Interior Ministry said that the Islamic Shari'ah...
The Saudi Interior Ministry said that the Islamic Shari'ah Court had found Salim Bin-Da'san al-Utawi, a Saudi national, guilty of murdering his compatriot Ahmad Bin-Mansur Bin-Dagriri and sentenced him to death
- JUNE 8, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Gaya court convicted nine of the 13 accused in the...
A Gaya court convicted nine of the 13 accused in the Bara massacre case giving the death sentence to four, life imprisonment to as many and 10-year's rigorous imprisonment to one
- JUNE 8, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain to demonstrate against McVeigh execution
Hands off Cain will protest Timothy McVeigh’s execution on Monday, June 11 in front of the American Embassy in Rome. McVeigh’s will be the first US federal execution since 1963.
- JUNE 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
The Justice Department has released a study five days...
The Justice Department has released a study five days before the first federal execution in 37 years claiming that there is no racial bias in federal capital prosecutions
- JUNE 7, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province,...
Twenty criminals were shot in Xian, Shaanxi province, as part of the Strike Hard campaign, which has seen more than 1,000 executed in two months
- JUNE 7, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
"Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation" host...
"Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation" host its first national gathering June 7-10 at Boston College
- JUNE 7, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed...
Lee Yihsiung a Taiwan drug trafficker was executed at the Taipei Prison, five years after he was arrested and escorted back to Taiwan from Thailand
- JUNE 7, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The overwhelming majority of the Iranian people will...
The overwhelming majority of the Iranian people will boycott the mullahs' election farce, Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in a statement
- JUNE 7, 2001IrelandDEATH PENALTY
June 7; 2001: the proposal to remove the death penalty...
June 7; 2001: the proposal to remove the death penalty from the Constitution obtained only 62
- JUNE 7, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A group of religious leaders met with the leaders of...
A group of religious leaders met with the leaders of political parties to seek their support for a campaign to abolish the death penalty
- JUNE 7, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Talal Ali al-Asem executed in Sana'a for the murder...
Talal Ali al-Asem executed in Sana'a for the murder of Nasser Ahmed Hussein
- JUNE 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
McVeigh refused stay of execution
June 7, 2001: Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh will be executed on June 11, unless the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch’s decision
- JUNE 6, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei...
Wuhan Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Hubei Province, sentenced to death Hu Shan, director of the post office customs unit, and sentenced to death with a reprieve Xu Guoyan , chief of the financial section of Wuhan customs
- JUNE 6, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Iran's revolution court sentenced...
It was reported that Iran's revolution court sentenced to death Gholam Reza Ameli, the gang leader of an ultra-orthodox group engaged in a spate of terrorist attacks
- JUNE 6, 2001ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
Governor John Rowland signed a bill to prohibit the...
Governor John Rowland signed a bill to prohibit the execution of those with mental retardation
- JUNE 6, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in...
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in the case of Bongani Mkhwanazi, a South African sentenced to death for murder
- JUNE 6, 2001EswatiniDEATH PENALTY
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in...
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in the case of Bongani Mkhwanazi, a South African sentenced to death for murder
- JUNE 6, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a...
Bose Prefectural Intermediate People's Court held a public rally to sentence to death the three "triad" leaders Ding Xu, Lu Zhongling and Huang Jie
- JUNE 6, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Joaquin Martinez, a Spanish citizen, and former death...
Joaquin Martinez, a Spanish citizen, and former death row inmate was acquitted of all charges at his retrial for a 1995 murder in Florida
- JUNE 5, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced...
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced to death for drug trafficking after ruling there were "too many contradictions and inconsistencies" in his case
- JUNE 5, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single...
Twenty-one convicted criminals were executed in a single day in the in the central Chinese city of Chongqing
- JUNE 5, 2001IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Five people were given the death sentence by the first...
Five people were given the death sentence by the first additional judge for killing five members of a family in Madhepura district in 1997
- JUNE 5, 2001IrelandDEATH PENALTY
An American murderer on death row called on the Irish...
An American murderer on death row called on the Irish people to abolish the death penalty in the June 7 referendum
- JUNE 5, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced...
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has freed a Briton sentenced to death for drug trafficking after ruling there were "too many contradictions and inconsistencies" in his case
- JUNE 5, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The public execution of rebels, proposed by North Caucasian...
The public execution of rebels, proposed by North Caucasian military district commander General Gennady Troshev, would be akin to the Sharia courts that have repeatedly executed women and children in public, the Ataman of the Terek Cossack Troop Vasily Bo
- JUNE 5, 2001DEATH PENALTY
US Supreme Court overturns retarded man’s death sentence
June 4, 2001: jurors were not given a chance to consider Texas inmate Johnny Paul Penry’s mental retardation as a mitigating factor, the Court ruled.
- JUNE 4, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Six Diet members from various political parties opposing...
Six Diet members from various political parties opposing capital punishment met with Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama to request that she make efforts to have the death penalty abolished and allow them to tour execution sites, Justice Ministry officials s
- JUNE 4, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The mother of a boy who was found murdered in a cane...
The mother of a boy who was found murdered in a cane paddock near Innisfail in 1993 has said she does not support the reintroduction of capital punishment
- JUNE 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechen Duma deputy Aslanbek Aslakhanov said he is...
Chechen Duma deputy Aslanbek Aslakhanov said he is ready to resign if the situation in his home republic does not change for the better