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
- APRIL 19, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded in Khamis Mushayt, Abd-al-Aziz...
Saudi Arabia beheaded in Khamis Mushayt, Abd-al-Aziz Bin-Shai Bin-Ali al-Shahrani a Saudi man, for stabbing to death a compatriot during a fight
- APRIL 19, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Judge John Tinder of U
Judge John Tinder of U
- APRIL 19, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said the Chinese...
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded that the United States repatriate Zhang Honggbao the leader of Zhong Gong a spiritual sect that has been banned in China, where he is accused of violent crimes and could f
- APRIL 19, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved...
The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved two measures that could halt executions for 2 years in the nation's most active death penalty state
- APRIL 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A record tally of 206 executions were carried out in...
A record tally of 206 executions were carried out in China on one day, surpassing the previous record of 89 executions on April 11
- APRIL 19, 2001FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Circuit Judge Daniel Perry put a hold on Wayne Tompkins'...
Circuit Judge Daniel Perry put a hold on Wayne Tompkins' scheduled death by lethal injection May 1 and ordered a new sentencing hearing
- APRIL 19, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence of Charles Eddie Hartman, convicted...
The death sentence of Charles Eddie Hartman, convicted in 1983 of kidnapping and murdering a 16-year-old girl, Kathy Nishiyama on Nov
- APRIL 19, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Gaston County Superior Court Judge Timothy Patti temporarily...
Gaston County Superior Court Judge Timothy Patti temporarily halted the execution of Ernest McCarver after defence lawyers argued the defendant is mentally retarded
- APRIL 19, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the death...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the death sentences of 16 convicts to life imprisonment based on the recommendation of the Department of Justice (DOJ)
- APRIL 19, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Bangkok Post reader, Chris Mann, said that far from...
A Bangkok Post reader, Chris Mann, said that far from abolishing the death penalty to follow UN guidelines, the government should consider extending it to cover rapists as well
- APRIL 18, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Masaharu Harada, 53, of Aichi Prefecture, the brother...
Masaharu Harada, 53, of Aichi Prefecture, the brother of a victim of convicted killer Toshihiko Hasegawa, 50, met with Justice Minister Masahiko Komura and asked that Hasegawa be taken off death row
- APRIL 18, 2001TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The Thai government executed Chu Chin-kuay, 33, a Taiwanese...
The Thai government executed Chu Chin-kuay, 33, a Taiwanese for drug trafficking
- APRIL 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily [Fazhi Ribao] said nine people were...
The Legal Daily [Fazhi Ribao] said nine people were executed in Lanzhou [Gansu Province] while five others died in Yinchuan [Ningxia Province]
- APRIL 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court sentenced to death Jin Ruchao for bombings in Hebei province that killed 108 people in March
- APRIL 18, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge late rejected an Internet company's...
A federal judge late rejected an Internet company's request to broadcast over the Web the execution of convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh
- APRIL 18, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Bangkok Senator Chirmsak Pinthong said that capital...
Bangkok Senator Chirmsak Pinthong said that capital punishment should be abolished, as it was not a practical solution to deter drug trafficking
- APRIL 18, 2001Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lee Yuan-kuang, 47, a Hong Kong Chinese was executed...
Lee Yuan-kuang, 47, a Hong Kong Chinese was executed in Thailand for drug
- APRIL 18, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The government executed five condemned prisoners, four...
The government executed five condemned prisoners, four of them major drug dealers, at the Bang Kwang maximum security prison and for the first time, televised their final hours up to the point the blindfolds were put on
- APRIL 18, 2001DEATH PENALTY
THE DEATH PENALTY: HANDS OFF CAIN AT THE UNITED NATIONS WITH OLIVIERO TOSCANI
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- APRIL 17, 2001San MarinoDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, Federica Bigi said her country supported any initiatives which aimed at abolishing the death penalty or the application of a moratorium on capital puni
- APRIL 17, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, Masaru Watanabe said since the European Union was going to submit a draft resolution on the question of the death penalty, Japan wanted to state its po
- APRIL 17, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item...
Speaking at the UN Commission on Human Rights on item 17, the promotion and protection of human rights, See Chak Mun said that since 1997 similar draft resolutions on the question of the death penalty had been submitted to the Commission calling for a mor
- APRIL 17, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Five Yemenis executed for murder, Saba news agency reported
Five Yemenis executed for murder, Saba news agency reported
- APRIL 17, 2001DEATH PENALTY
CHINA CLAMPS DOWN ON CRIME WITH A WEEK OF ARRESTS AND EXECUTIONS
The Supreme People’s court issued a circular over Easter Weekend requiring that law courts sentence to death serious criminal offenders as they deserve.
- APRIL 16, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
The Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Galati...
The Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Galati sentenced to death by lethal injection Sherman Lee Rutledge, 29, for the May 1997 murder of Ryan Harris, 21
- APRIL 16, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Study Finds Evidence of Racial Bias in North Carolina...
Study Finds Evidence of Racial Bias in North Carolina Death Penalty the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the death penalty in North Carolina was released on April 16 by researchers from the University of North Carolina
- APRIL 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Five drug-traffickers, sentenced to death by a revolution...
Five drug-traffickers, sentenced to death by a revolution court were hanged in public in the northeastern city of Birjand
- APRIL 15, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shandong authorities executed 12 people for murder,...
Shandong authorities executed 12 people for murder, armed robbery, fraud and other crimes
- APRIL 13, 2001AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Fouad Boulémia, convicted of murdering Abdelkader Hachani,...
Fouad Boulémia, convicted of murdering Abdelkader Hachani, a high ranking member of the Islamic Salvation Front, was sentenced to death by a court in Algiers
- APRIL 13, 2001MarylandDEATH PENALTY
The Maryland Court of Appeals, in denying a request...
The Maryland Court of Appeals, in denying a request to expedite death row inmate Steven Oken's appeals, has effectively placed at least a temporary moratorium on executions