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
- FEBRUARY 25, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Three [unidentified] Afghan bandits were hung in public...
Three [unidentified] Afghan bandits were hung in public in the Khorasan Province on the border with Afghanistan
- FEBRUARY 25, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Three unidentified Afghan bandits were publicly hanged...
Three unidentified Afghan bandits were publicly hanged in the Iranian province of Khorasan near the border with Afghanistan
- FEBRUARY 24, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Jabbar alias Zafar and Shafiq alias Pappu, have...
Abdul Jabbar alias Zafar and Shafiq alias Pappu, have appealed their sentences
- FEBRUARY 24, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The leader of the Democratici di Sinistra (Democratic...
The leader of the Democratici di Sinistra (Democratic Left, DS) parliamentary group Fabio Mussi condemned statements by far right politicians calling for the death penalty for the perpetrators of a horrific double murder in Novi Ligure
- FEBRUARY 24, 2001RwandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ruhengeri court of first instance sentenced five...
The Ruhengeri court of first instance sentenced five people to death on charges related to acts of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Gipuri and Nyamutera communes during the 1994 genocide
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The former Prime Minister of Armenia, Aram Sargsian...
The former Prime Minister of Armenia, Aram Sargsian said that the five perpetrators of the act of terrorism in the Armenian parliament, on February 27, 1999, in which his brother Vazgen Sargsian was killed, would be sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001LiberiaDEATH PENALTY
Four journalists are risking the death penalty on charges...
Four journalists are risking the death penalty on charges of espionage for 'enemies' of the state
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
The former chief of Yugoslavia's feared secret police
The former chief of Yugoslavia's feared secret police
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed seven people for their role in a multi-billion...
China executed seven people for their role in a multi-billion dollar smuggling scandal
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Assembly woman Dion Aroner introduced AB 1512 to prohibit...
Assembly woman Dion Aroner introduced AB 1512 to prohibit the death penalty for those with mental retardation
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's ultra-orthodox Taliban regime publicly...
Afghanistan's ultra-orthodox Taliban regime publicly executed two women and flogged a dozen others convicted of adultery in the southern city of Kandahar, the official Radio Shariat said Saturday
- FEBRUARY 23, 2001DEATH PENALTY
JAPAN
February 23, 2001: a Japanese death row prisoner committed suicide in the Fukuoka prison, police said. The news came just a few hours after a Council of Europe delegation denounced conditions on death row in Japanese prisons as torture at the end of its f
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001Vatican CityDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty was abolished from the constitution...
The death penalty was abolished from the constitution of the Vatican City State
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A [unidentified] Singaporean national was executed...
A [unidentified] Singaporean national was executed in China in January for drug trafficking
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001TogoDEATH PENALTY
Investigators from the United Nations and the Organisation...
Investigators from the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) said they were convinced that Togolese security forces, gendarmes and militias had murdered, tortured and raped people following the 1998 presidential elections
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Karnes City, a jury sentenced a 20-year-old man...
In Karnes City, a jury sentenced a 20-year-old man to death for helping his boyhood friend (Mr
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Sami bin Sulaiman al-Qurashi, a Saudi national was...
Sami bin Sulaiman al-Qurashi, a Saudi national was publicly beheaded after being found guilty by an Islamic shari'a court of murdering a compatriot
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Mua Wongsorn, 60, and Yai Busanaree, 48, were sentenced...
Mua Wongsorn, 60, and Yai Busanaree, 48, were sentenced to death after being convicted of trafficking in 80,000 speed pills in Chiang Rai in 1999
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A [unidentified] Singaporean national was executed...
A [unidentified] Singaporean national was executed in China in January for drug trafficking
- FEBRUARY 22, 2001DEATH PENALTY
JAPAN
February 22, 2001: a delegation from the Council of Europe is on a first ever visit to Japan on the invitation of the Japanese Parliamentary League for Abolition, despite lack of co-operation by the Japanese authorities. The delegation is evaluating the c
- FEBRUARY 21, 2001ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Women pressure groups are advocating death sentences...
Women pressure groups are advocating death sentences or castration for rapists, two punishments they feel would be proportional to the gravity of the crime and also serve as a sufficient deterrent to child sexual abuse
- FEBRUARY 21, 2001SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Tay Chin Wah, 68, an elderly taxi driver who fired...
Tay Chin Wah, 68, an elderly taxi driver who fired four shots from his revolver at two men in 1995 was sentenced to hang
- FEBRUARY 21, 2001CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
The government is reviewing a trial bill that would...
The government is reviewing a trial bill that would set up a special tribunal to bring to justice Khmer Rouge responsible for the deaths of at least 1,7 million Cambodians in the late 1970s
- FEBRUARY 21, 2001IndianaDEATH PENALTY
A House committee passed a bill intended to make sure...
A House committee passed a bill intended to make sure relatives of crime victims have the right to tell the judge how the death of a loved one affected them
- FEBRUARY 21, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted 5-0 to...
The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted 5-0 to approve SB 133, the racial evidence bill
- FEBRUARY 20, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Wyoming's Governor signed a law (SB 20) to add the...
Wyoming's Governor signed a law (SB 20) to add the sentencing option of life imprisonment without parole as an alternative penalty for those convicted of 1st-degree murder
- FEBRUARY 20, 2001AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
A group of Alabama death row inmates is pushing an...
A group of Alabama death row inmates is pushing an unusual solution to the state's school-funding crisis: abolish the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 20, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan national, Shalif Alizehi, was executed after...
An Afghan national, Shalif Alizehi, was executed after being found guilty of robbery, rape and drug trafficking
- FEBRUARY 20, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai cabinet minister sent a letter to Indonesian...
A Thai cabinet minister sent a letter to Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid asking for clemency for two compatriots, Namsong Sirlak, and Saelaw Praset
- FEBRUARY 20, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan national, Shalif Alizehi, was executed in...
An Afghan national, Shalif Alizehi, was executed in Iran after being found guilty of robbery, rape and drug-trafficking