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 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Presidential Pardons Commission, which has been...
The Presidential Pardons Commission, which has been operating for nine and a half years, may soon cease operating, rumours reported by the Nezavisimaya Gazeta said
- JUNE 4, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
General Gennady Troshev, commander of Russia's North...
General Gennady Troshev, commander of Russia's North Caucasus Military District, said life imprisonment is too mild a punishment for Chechen terrorists who have killed dozens of civilians
- JUNE 4, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian President Mohammad Khatami voiced opposition...
The Iranian President Mohammad Khatami voiced opposition to a call for executing a death decree against British author Salman Rushdie
- JUNE 4, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbian Justice Minister, Vladan Batic, said that Serbia...
Serbian Justice Minister, Vladan Batic, said that Serbia had accepted Council of Europe and EU demands to strike the death penalty from the republican penal code as a condition for membership of the institutions
- JUNE 4, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the...
The Pingdingshan City Court pronounced publicly the sentences on a 40-strong criminal syndicate
- JUNE 1, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
The Iraqi penal code sentences to the death penalty...
The Iraqi penal code sentences to the death penalty :- anyone attempting to murder the president (article 223)
- JUNE 1, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty has been in force in the Iraqi legal...
The death penalty has been in force in the Iraqi legal system since 1921, following the foundation of the Iraqi State (1920), its field of application has been extended since the taking of power by the Baath party in 1968 and since 1979, the year marking
- JUNE 1, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling condemning...
The Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling condemning Shinichi Shimoyama to death for his 1993 crime orgy in which he killed and robbed three people across Japan
- JUNE 1, 2001ChileDEATH PENALTY
The European Union welcomed the promulgation by the...
The European Union welcomed the promulgation by the President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, of a law abolishing the death penalty in time of peace
- JUNE 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death...
The regional Higher People 's Court confirmed the death sentence handed down to the former police chief of Liuzhou city in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- JUNE 1, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The Military Tribunal sentenced five members of the...
The Military Tribunal sentenced five members of the South Lebanon Army militia to death in absentia for killing resistance fighters who fought Israeli troops during the occupation of the South
- MAY 31, 2001DEATH PENALTY
The Ankara Bar Chairman Sadik Erdogan complained that...
The Ankara Bar Chairman Sadik Erdogan complained that the Interparties Concession Subcommission did not bring a change regarding the abolishment of the death penalty
- MAY 31, 2001VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Circuit Judge Dennis L
Circuit Judge Dennis L
- MAY 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaoyang (Hunan Province) Municipal Intermediate People's...
Shaoyang (Hunan Province) Municipal Intermediate People's Court sentenced six triad gangsters including Deng Fei to death
- MAY 31, 2001DelawareDEATH PENALTY
The Delaware Supreme Court has overturned the death...
The Delaware Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences given 2 men in 1997 after finding an appearance of unfairness by the judge who presided over their murder trials
- MAY 31, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Prime Ministry notes requesting the execution of...
The Prime Ministry notes requesting the execution of the death sentences given to inmates Mutlu Akyn, Mehmet Nuri Ozen, Hasan Askyn and Seyhmus Poyraz, were submitted to Parliament
- MAY 31, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death two Singaporeans...
The Thai Criminal Court sentenced to death two Singaporeans convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin out of the country and related charges
- MAY 31, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe said Russia's continued refusal...
The Council of Europe said Russia's continued refusal to abolish capital punishment could jeopardise its membership of the human rights and democracy watchdog
- MAY 31, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced to death two Singaporeans...
The Criminal Court sentenced to death two Singaporeans convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin out of the country and related charges
- MAY 31, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people convicted of abducting and selling four...
Six people convicted of abducting and selling four women and 99 children were executed in China's southwestern province of Yunnan
- MAY 31, 2001MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Parris Glendening granted a posthumous pardon...
Gov. Parris Glendening granted a posthumous pardon to a black man hanged in 1919, saying the execution "may well have been a miscarriage of justice." "While it is impossible at this late date to establish with certainty his guilt or innocence, there is su
- MAY 31, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Delays in Timothy McVeigh's execution should stop,...
Delays in Timothy McVeigh's execution should stop, a majority of Chicago area residents said in a survey taken Thursday
- MAY 31, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Commander of the North Caucasus Military District...
The Commander of the North Caucasus Military District Gennadiy Troshev spoke in favour of bringing back capital punishment in Russia
- MAY 31, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Some 300 school children participated in a children's...
Some 300 school children participated in a children's art exhibition sponsored by the Movement for People's Rights as part of its nationwide campaign against capital punishment
- MAY 30, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Jonathan Brett Horrocks, 40, who was sentenced to life...
Jonathan Brett Horrocks, 40, who was sentenced to life with a minimum of 23 years in 2000 for shooting dead his former boss at a La Trobe University bar wrote a letter to Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls asking to be executed
- MAY 30, 2001Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International accused the security forces in...
Amnesty International accused the security forces in the Ivory Coast of committing some of the worst human rights abuses seen in the West African state for three decades
- MAY 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Urumqi Intermediate People's Court held a public...
The Urumqi Intermediate People's Court held a public rally to sentence to death or life imprisonment 24 criminals convicted either of splitting the country, murder, or robbery at trial of first instance
- MAY 30, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Mount Lebanon criminal court sentenced two Indian...
A Mount Lebanon criminal court sentenced two Indian men to death for the murder of one of their compatriots
- MAY 30, 2001DEATH PENALTY
McVeigh lawyers will apply for a stay of execution
Attorneys for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh said they plan as early as Thursday to file a court motion to seek a postponement of the rescheduled June 11 execution.
- MAY 29, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Mehrdad Yusefi, an 18-year-old man, was hanged in the...
Mehrdad Yusefi, an 18-year-old man, was hanged in the western city of Ilam after the Supreme Court upheld a death sentence issued by a lower court for killing a friend two years later