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
- MAY 16, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Dimitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration,...
Dimitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration, said the administration is planning to introduce juries before the end of 2002
- MAY 15, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yiyang Municipal People's Court in Hunan Province...
The Yiyang Municipal People's Court in Hunan Province sentenced 12 alleged drug traffickers to death after the Yiyang municipal police smashed a Guangdong-Hunan drug-trafficking gang and arrested 42 suspects
- MAY 15, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Branch 1601 of the criminal court ordered the amputation...
Branch 1601 of the criminal court ordered the amputation of a young man's right hand fingers and condemned him to death, the Javan daily reported
- MAY 15, 2001VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Nguyen Dinh Loc stated that: "Each...
Justice Minister Nguyen Dinh Loc stated that: "Each year, we have around 200 death sentences, particularly sentences for drug crimes, yet the number of these crimes still increase
- MAY 15, 2001GreeceDEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis met...
The Parliamentary Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis met the head of the French delegation of the OSCE assembly, Michel Voisin, in Athens
- MAY 15, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
An AustralSCAN survey shows Australians would approve...
An AustralSCAN survey shows Australians would approve a referendum on capital punishment
- MAY 15, 2001AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Clive Stafford-Smith, a US lawyer fighting the death...
Clive Stafford-Smith, a US lawyer fighting the death penalty, arrived in Melbourne helping to launch the group Reprieve Australia, to campaign against the death penalty
- MAY 15, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The watchdog group Human Rights Watch urged the United...
The watchdog group Human Rights Watch urged the United States, European Union and United Nations to make Russia investigate a mass grave site discovered in the rebel Chechen Republic in February
- MAY 15, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
At a conference organized by the Université Saint Joseph...
At a conference organized by the Université Saint Joseph Law School to discuss the death penalty in Europe, Italian Ambassador Guiseppe Cassini cited Cesare Beccaria's essay, "On Crimes and Punishments" (1764) questioning whether the death penalty is usef
- MAY 14, 2001DEATH PENALTY
The House voted down a bill that would have allowed...
The House voted down a bill that would have allowed the sentencing option of life without parole
- MAY 14, 2001DEATH PENALTY
House passed a bill to ban the execution of juvenile...
House passed a bill to ban the execution of juvenile offenders
- MAY 14, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A judge has temporarily blocked the pending execution...
A judge has temporarily blocked the pending execution of Robert Bacon Jr
- MAY 14, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
A bill introduced by Sen
A bill introduced by Sen
- MAY 14, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
EP Glyn FORD, of the Party of European Socialists called...
EP Glyn FORD, of the Party of European Socialists called for the death sentence on Timothy McVeigh to be commuted to life imprisonment
- MAY 14, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Chechen soldiers reported that a traitor was killed...
Chechen soldiers reported that a traitor was killed in Argun because he disclosed the location of a Chechen group during a fight in the same town on May 7
- MAY 14, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council welcomed the Democratic...
The EU General Affairs Council welcomed the Democratic Republic of Congo's vote in favour of the UN Commission on Human Rights resolution on the question of the death penalty, and urged the government of the DRC to work on internal legislation in the spir
- MAY 14, 2001IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
A man who specialized in car thefts was sentenced to...
A man who specialized in car thefts was sentenced to death by Purwokerto District Court for murdering a lawyer in March
- MAY 14, 2001South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court imposed a death sentence on a 31-year-old...
The Supreme Court imposed a death sentence on a 31-year-old man convicted of murdering his lover and her husband in a plan to get insurance money
- MAY 14, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
The Arkansas House Judiciary Committee blocked Sen
The Arkansas House Judiciary Committee blocked Sen
- MAY 14, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Hussein Ahmed al-Ariqi executed by firing...
Muhammad Hussein Ahmed al-Ariqi executed by firing squad in Sana'a for the murder of Hamda Murshid Tahir al-Hamdani
- MAY 13, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The family of a man hanged 49 years ago for a murder...
The family of a man hanged 49 years ago for a murder he did not commit received £1
- MAY 13, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Jim Willett,...
In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Jim Willett, who presided over 89 executions as the warden on Texas' death row, stated: Has an innocent man ever been executed? Probably
- MAY 13, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Revolutionary Court gave heavy sentences, including...
Iran's Revolutionary Court gave heavy sentences, including the death penalty, to some 30 members of a group of Shi'ite Muslim activists charged with subversion, the Tosea daily said
- MAY 13, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdel Karim Muhammad Alwan executed for the murder...
Abdel Karim Muhammad Alwan executed for the murder of Amin Hussein Abdullah
- MAY 12, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted murderers were hanged in Fat'hol Mobin...
Two convicted murderers were hanged in Fat'hol Mobin Square in the southwestern city of Dezful
- MAY 12, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) stated...
The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) stated its intention to start collecting signatures to support the introduction of the death penalty for drug distribution
- MAY 11, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The military board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced...
The military board of the Tajik Supreme Court sentenced to death
- MAY 11, 2001EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
Girma Wakjirra, Ethiopia's chief special prosecutor...
Girma Wakjirra, Ethiopia's chief special prosecutor for the reign of terror campaign that took place in the country between 1977-78, told parliament the courts had passed verdicts on 1,181 of the 6,180 genocide cases since the trials started in 1994
- MAY 11, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four people were executed for tax fraud in Guangdong
Four people were executed for tax fraud in Guangdong
- MAY 11, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Richard Baumhammers, 35, was sentenced to death for...
Richard Baumhammers, 35, was sentenced to death for of the April 28, 2000 killing of 5 people in a racially motivated shooting spree in suburban Pittsburgh last year