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
- MARCH 8, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a statement urging President Arroyo to ask Congress to abolish the capital punishment
- MARCH 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
With cases mounting in the United States of innocent...
With cases mounting in the United States of innocent people sentenced to death, a group of U
- MARCH 7, 2001TogoDEATH PENALTY
Togo's government announced the establishment of a...
Togo's government announced the establishment of a four-man commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of extra-judicial executions during the 1998 presidential election campaign
- MARCH 7, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Dennis Dowthitt, 55, was executed for sexually abusing...
Dennis Dowthitt, 55, was executed for sexually abusing and killing a Montgomery County teen on June 13, 1990
- MARCH 7, 2001GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
William Sallie has again been sentenced to death for...
William Sallie has again been sentenced to death for the 1990 slaying of his father-in-law in south Georgia's Bacon County
- MARCH 7, 2001MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A twelve-year-old boy is risking the death penalty...
A twelve-year-old boy is risking the death penalty for the murder of a five-year-old girl
- MARCH 7, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed...
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed the execution of 11 Lebanese, who were arrested shortly after the assassination of Congolese President Laurent Kabila on January 16
- MARCH 7, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will not impose a...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will not impose a moratorium on the death penalty, and said the issue "is a matter for Congress to determine
- MARCH 7, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed...
Democratic Republic of Congo has officially confirmed the execution of 11 Lebanese, who were arrested shortly after the assassination of Congolese President Laurent Kabila on January 16
- MARCH 7, 2001DEATH PENALTY
WOMAN´S DAY
March 7, 2001: Hands off Cain appeals for solidarity with women on death row all over the world. Marietta Bosch, a South African woman condemned to death for murder, awaits the hangman in Botswana.
- MARCH 6, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A bill to permit DNA testing of old evidence in order...
A bill to permit DNA testing of old evidence in order to establish innocence was introduced (AB 2178)
- MARCH 6, 2001New YorkDEATH PENALTY
It was introduced a bill to eliminate the provisions...
It was introduced a bill to eliminate the provisions of law establishing the imposition of the death penalty for first-degree murder (AB 6215)
- MARCH 6, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Senator Ersilia Salvato, vice-president of the Senate...
Senator Ersilia Salvato, vice-president of the Senate and President of the Senate Committee against the death penalty, asked the Governor of Missouri Bob Holden to pardon Antonio Richardson, a mentally impaired convict, sentenced to death for a double mur
- MARCH 6, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 6, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the capital...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo commuted the capital sentences of two condemned Edgar Maligaya and Rodrigo Calma to life sentences on the recommendation of Justice Secretary Hernando Perez, saving them from their scheduled execution on March 7
- MARCH 6, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Representatives from the Memorial Rights Centre have...
Representatives from the Memorial Rights Centre have said that many corpses which were found near Khankala were victims of executions by Russian service men
- MARCH 6, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
During the first meeting between the new US administration...
During the first meeting between the new US administration and the representatives of the European Union, EU Council President Anna Lindh, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and External Relations Commissioner Chris P
- MARCH 6, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Rep. Glen Lewis (D-Fort Worth) proposed a bill that...
Rep. Glen Lewis (D-Fort Worth) proposed a bill that would require the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to meet as a body and be subject to state open meetings laws. Currently, the 18-member panel is not required to meet when deciding cases, and clemen
- MARCH 6, 2001MissouriDEATH PENALTY
Committee on criminal law passed 12-1 a bill (HB68)...
Committee on criminal law passed 12-1 a bill (HB68) presented by Rep
- MARCH 6, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal moved to fire...
Convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal moved to fire his longtime legal team, maintaining that one of his attorneys breached ethical guidelines by writing an "inside account" of the case that has become an international cause celebre
- MARCH 5, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Speaker of the House Luciano Violante declared:...
The Speaker of the House Luciano Violante declared: "We are working in unison with the Presidents of France and Germany towards a European bill against the death penalty"
- MARCH 5, 2001New YorkDEATH PENALTY
It was tabled, after much debate, Democratic legislator...
It was tabled, after much debate, Democratic legislator William Kinne's proposal to ask Gov
- MARCH 5, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A large group of women, members of the Phoenix community...
A large group of women, members of the Phoenix community converged on the Verulam Regional Court, north of Durban and staged a placard protest in front of the court entrance morning while three suspects appeared in connection with March 1 gang rape of a s
- MARCH 5, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
In a poll on whether former President Joseph Estrada...
In a poll on whether former President Joseph Estrada is guilty, 171 respondents of the total 300 interviewed (57%) believed him guilty while only 58 (19
- MARCH 5, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stressed a need for...
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stressed a need for the death penalty against drug producers and traffickers
- MARCH 4, 2001MalawiDEATH PENALTY
Four death row inmates escaped from the Zomba Maximum...
Four death row inmates escaped from the Zomba Maximum Security Prison
- MARCH 4, 2001United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The Rutherford Institute Urges President Bush to Declare...
The Rutherford Institute Urges President Bush to Declare a Death Penalty Moratorium In a letter to President Bush, John W
- MARCH 4, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Head of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Service...
The Head of the Palestinian Military Intelligence Service Staff Major-General Musa Arafat al-Qudwah stressed that in order to counter Israeli intelligence penetration, "it was necessary increase some of the sentences up to the death penalty to deter othe
- MARCH 4, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Moise Nyarugabo, a rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy...
Moise Nyarugabo, a rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) spokesman, said that Congolese authorities were rounding up people in Kinshasa whom they suspected of being involved in the assassination of President Laurent Kabila in January
- MARCH 3, 2001IraqDEATH PENALTY
A Kurdish source said the military authorities in Baghdad...
A Kurdish source said the military authorities in Baghdad executed an army major-general, Tariq Sa'dun, a relative of the incumbent Interior Minister Muhammad Zimam Abd-al-Razzaq