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 2, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The South African Foreign Ministry declared that it...
The South African Foreign Ministry declared that it was informed of Marietta Bosch's execution only two days after the event
- APRIL 2, 2001St. LuciaDEATH PENALTY
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean...
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal sitting in St Vincent ruled that the mandatory nature of the death penalty is a constitutional violation and the death sentence should be quashed in the seven territories served by the
- APRIL 2, 2001DominicaDEATH PENALTY
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean...
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal sitting in St Vincent ruled that the mandatory nature of the death penalty is a constitutional violation and the death sentence should be quashed in the seven territories served by the
- APRIL 2, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean...
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal sitting in St Vincent ruled that the mandatory nature of the death penalty is a constitutional violation and the death sentence should be quashed in the seven territories served by the
- APRIL 2, 2001St. LuciaDEATH PENALTY
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean...
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal sitting in St Vincent ruled that the mandatory nature of the death penalty is a constitutional violation and the death sentence should be quashed in the seven territories served by the
- APRIL 2, 2001GrenadaDEATH PENALTY
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean...
A majority decision delivered by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal sitting in St Vincent ruled that the mandatory nature of the death penalty is a constitutional violation and the death sentence should be quashed in the seven territories served by the
- APRIL 2, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for South African Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch,...
Lawyers for South African Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch, 50, said the execution was carried out with indecent haste and with callous disregard for Bosch's life and her constitutional rights
- APRIL 2, 2001DEATH PENALTY
BOTSWANA EXECUTES MARIETTA BOSCH
April 2, 2001: South African Marietta Bosch was hanged for murder on Saturday March 31, Botswana authorities confirmed today.
- APRIL 1, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
In April 2001, President Jiang Zemin launched a "strike...
In April 2001, President Jiang Zemin launched a "strike hard" campaign targeting gang-related crime and other violent offences in April
- APRIL 1, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Salih Izzet Erdis, the head of illegal Islamic Great...
Salih Izzet Erdis, the head of illegal Islamic Great Eastern Raiders Front organization, was sentenced to capital punishment by the Istanbul State Security Court no: 6
- APRIL 1, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Three Nigerian police officers were sentenced to death...
Three Nigerian police officers were sentenced to death for burning five people alive after robbing them at gunpoint
- APRIL 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Three convicted drug traffickers and producers, two...
Three convicted drug traffickers and producers, two Chinese and one Thai, will be executed before the Songkran [New Year] festival begins, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said
- MARCH 31, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
Rodman Mohammed Saad executed by firing squad in Sana'a...
Rodman Mohammed Saad executed by firing squad in Sana'a Central Prison
- MARCH 31, 2001BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
"Marietta Bosch was hanged" said Herman Kau, Botswana's...
"Marietta Bosch was hanged" said Herman Kau, Botswana's commissioner for prisons
- MARCH 31, 2001CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
About 75 members of the far-right Republican Youth,...
About 75 members of the far-right Republican Youth, National Front and the National United Bloc took part in a demonstration against drugs
- MARCH 31, 2001UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Presidium of the Supreme Court commuted two death...
The Presidium of the Supreme Court commuted two death sentences, passed in November 1999 on Arsen Arutyunyan and Danis Sirazhev, to 15 years imprisonment
- MARCH 31, 2001DEATH PENALTY
It was re-reffered to rules committee the bill introduced...
It was re-reffered to rules committee the bill introduced in the Senate (SB 1311) to provide for the death penalty for a person who commits first degree murder using a firearm in or within 500 feet of a church, synagogue, or other place of religious worsh
- MARCH 30, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A killer was beheaded in Saudi Arabia
A killer was beheaded in Saudi Arabia
- MARCH 30, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A jury sentenced to death Daniel Acker, 29, after finding...
A jury sentenced to death Daniel Acker, 29, after finding him guilty of capital murder in the strangulation death of his girlfriend, 32-year-old Marquetta George, last March
- MARCH 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Jian, former general manager of the Baihua Industrial...
Li Jian, former general manager of the Baihua Industrial Company, was sentenced to death for a financial fraud involving 336
- MARCH 30, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
French President Jacques Chirac speaking to the UN...
French President Jacques Chirac speaking to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, called for the universal abolition of the death penalty and a general moratorium on executions
- MARCH 30, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
James Kopp, wanted in the United States for the murder...
James Kopp, wanted in the United States for the murder of an abortion doctor, will not be extradited by France if U
- MARCH 30, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
A federal appeals court threw out the death sentence...
A federal appeals court threw out the death sentence of an Oklahoma man convicted of killing his 7-year-old former stepdaughter in 1984
- MARCH 30, 2001AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
A state appeals court overturned the death sentence...
A state appeals court overturned the death sentence of William A
- MARCH 30, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Corey James Jennings, 25, convicted of gunning down...
Corey James Jennings, 25, convicted of gunning down Quy Quang Lam, 21, a neighborhood store clerk was sentenced to death by lethal injection
- MARCH 30, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die...
23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a stay of execution, sending his case back to a Memphis court for a hearing on "newly discovered evidence
- MARCH 30, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Kabila, addressing the annual session...
President Joseph Kabila, addressing the annual session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, said that pending the completion of the judicial reform and, especially, that of military justice, the military tribunal had been instructed to handle excl
- MARCH 30, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A man who has spent 20 years on death row for killing...
A man who has spent 20 years on death row for killing a 12-year-old girl had his conviction and death sentence overturned for a 2nd time
- MARCH 29, 2001BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The issue of Fatwa is the cause of major turmoil in...
The issue of Fatwa is the cause of major turmoil in Bangladesh after two High Court judges, on January 1, declared it illegal
- MARCH 29, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Feelings ran high in the North West town of Marikana...
Feelings ran high in the North West town of Marikana where the community met Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete and Agri SA president Japie Grobler after two farm murders in the area on March 27