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
- JANUARY 31, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A gang member convicted of killing 2 teenagers (Mike...
A gang member convicted of killing 2 teenagers (Mike Murillo and Bryan Molina) in Whittier was sentenced to death
- JANUARY 31, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A man whose November 1999 crime spree resulted in the...
A man whose November 1999 crime spree resulted in the deaths of 2 people was sentenced to die
- JANUARY 31, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Galveston man convicted and sentenced to death in...
A Galveston man convicted and sentenced to death in the murder of his toddler stepdaughter had an ineffective lawyer and should be given a new trial, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Wednesday
- JANUARY 31, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani national, Murad Bkhit was executed in Oman...
A Pakistani national, Murad Bkhit was executed in Oman for drug trafficking
- JANUARY 31, 2001OregonDEATH PENALTY
Senator Mark Hatfield, Norma Paulus and Dr
Senator Mark Hatfield, Norma Paulus and Dr
- JANUARY 31, 2001ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano's death penalty...
Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano's death penalty commission, which was appointed in 2000 to study how capital punishment is administered and to recommend improvements, has agreed to expand a legislative proposal (SB 1486) to help Arizona's rural
- JANUARY 31, 2001DEATH PENALTY
OMAN
January 31, 2001: First execution for drug trafficking in Oman.
- JANUARY 30, 2001United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Lodhi, 43, a businessman Pakistani national,...
Mohammed Lodhi, 43, a businessman Pakistani national, is fighting extradition to the United Arab Emirates where he faces a death sentence, possibly by crucifixion, if extradited
- JANUARY 30, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
The Yemeni national who hijacked a plane on an internal...
The Yemeni national who hijacked a plane on an internal flight from Sanaa to Taaz last week may face the death penalty if proven guilty by the court judges
- JANUARY 30, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Presiding Judge Toshifumi Motohara of the Supreme Court...
Presiding Judge Toshifumi Motohara of the Supreme Court rejected Kozo Segawa's appeal against lower court capital sentence
- JANUARY 30, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in DRC, Roberto...
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in DRC, Roberto Garreton, condemned the January 19 clashes between the Hema and Lendu in Bunia and said that Lendu and Ngiti militiamen attacked Ugandan military positions near Bunia airport
- JANUARY 30, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A bill to exclude the death penalty for juvenile offenders...
A bill to exclude the death penalty for juvenile offenders (SB 236) was introduced by Sen
- JANUARY 30, 2001TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkey's justice minister Hikmet Sami Turk said might...
Turkey's justice minister Hikmet Sami Turk said might have to review a stay of execution for Abdullah Ocalan if he continued making "provocative" public statements
- JANUARY 30, 2001YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni man with a history of crime had his right...
A Yemeni man with a history of crime had his right hand chopped off and will go before a firing squad for murder in 10 days
- JANUARY 30, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed in Mecca three [unidentified]...
Saudi Arabia executed in Mecca three [unidentified] nationals for stabbing and raping a Saudi woman before robbing her
- JANUARY 30, 2001SyriaDEATH PENALTY
A Syrian national, Ibrahim Issa , was sentenced to...
A Syrian national, Ibrahim Issa , was sentenced to death in absentia in Lebanon after he was found guilty of murdering a woman, Salwat Asafiri, at her home in Beirut in 1998
- JANUARY 30, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Zhiqing, 37, an accountant at the People's Bank...
Chen Zhiqing, 37, an accountant at the People's Bank of China branch in Xining, Qinghai province, was sentenced to death by Xining Intermediate People's Court, for looting 15
- JANUARY 30, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Lodhi, 43, a businessman Pakistani national,...
Mohammed Lodhi, 43, a businessman Pakistani national, is fighting in United Kingdom extradition to the United Arab Emirates where he faces a death sentence, possibly by crucifixion, if extradited
- JANUARY 30, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
A Syrian national, Ibrahim Issa , was sentenced to...
A Syrian national, Ibrahim Issa , was sentenced to death in absentia after he was found guilty of murdering a woman, Salwat Asafiri, at her home in Beirut in 1998
- JANUARY 30, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
A 35-year-old man, Loyd Lafevers, was executed by injection...
A 35-year-old man, Loyd Lafevers, was executed by injection in the night for killing an 84-year-old woman by beating her and setting her on fire
- JANUARY 30, 2001JapanDEATH PENALTY
Members of the government's panel on judicial reform...
Members of the government's panel on judicial reform agreed that a joint judge-jury system should be introduced in criminal trials
- JANUARY 30, 2001MichiganDEATH PENALTY
SJR 2 was introduced to reinstate the death penalty...
SJR 2 was introduced to reinstate the death penalty in Michigan, by allowing for the death penalty for those convicted for first degree murder
- JANUARY 30, 2001OhioDEATH PENALTY
SB 25, was filed by Sen
SB 25, was filed by Sen
- JANUARY 30, 2001MississippiDEATH PENALTY
Mississippi representatives Erik Felming and John Mayo...
Mississippi representatives Erik Felming and John Mayo have each proposed legislation to abolish the death penalty in Mississippi
- JANUARY 30, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet endorsed a government-sponsored...
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet endorsed a government-sponsored bill to change the country's method of capital punishment, replacing the traditional gunning-down of convicts on death row with more humane lethal injections
- JANUARY 30, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists...
Naser Zarafshan, lawyer for the families of the nationalists Dariush and Parvaneh Foruhar and spokesman for the writer Mohammad Puyandeh, stated that "The relatives oppose the death sentence because they do not seek revenge
- JANUARY 30, 2001Sud CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Sen. Land presented a bill (SB 236) to abolish death...
Sen. Land presented a bill (SB 236) to abolish death penalty on juveniles.
- JANUARY 30, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy...
Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy after Pakistan's military regime closed down an English-language newspaper for publishing a `highly sacrilegious' reader's letter
- JANUARY 30, 2001DjiboutiDEATH PENALTY
The Yemeni national who hijacked a plane on an internal...
The Yemeni national who hijacked a plane on an internal flight from Sanaa to Taaz last week may face the death penalty if proven guilty by the court judges
- JANUARY 29, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A judge on the central island of Bohol sentenced 12...
A judge on the central island of Bohol sentenced 12 [unidentified] members of a kidnapping gang to death by lethal injection, after finding the 12 guilty of kidnapping a Chinese-Filipino businessman for ransom in 1998