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 24, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penalty...
The Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penalty presented its conclusive report to the Italian Senate
- JANUARY 24, 2001Sud CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The State Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for...
The State Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to death
- JANUARY 24, 2001New JerseyDEATH PENALTY
Assemblyman Alfred E
Assemblyman Alfred E
- JANUARY 24, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Chiew-ming sae Chow and Suvit Lachan, two drug dealers...
Chiew-ming sae Chow and Suvit Lachan, two drug dealers were sentenced to death for possession of 94,000 speed pills for sale
- JANUARY 24, 2001Rhode IslandDEATH PENALTY
Rep. Barr filed HB 5253 to reintroduce the death penalty.
Rep. Barr filed HB 5253 to reintroduce the death penalty.
- JANUARY 24, 2001DelawareDEATH PENALTY
(SJR 3) a Joint Resolution, sponsored by Sen
(SJR 3) a Joint Resolution, sponsored by Sen
- JANUARY 24, 2001ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
A bill that would make murder of a child 12 or younger...
A bill that would make murder of a child 12 or younger an aggravating circumstance for purposes of imposing the death penalty easily won approval in the Arkansas House of Representatives
- JANUARY 24, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Workers group Migrante International sought the intervention...
Workers group Migrante International sought the intervention of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the release and repatriation of some 1,000 overseas Filipino workers allegedly unjustly imprisoned, particularly the death row cases in Saudi Arabia and
- JANUARY 24, 2001RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Main Military Prosecutor Mikhail Kislitsyn,...
Russian Main Military Prosecutor Mikhail Kislitsyn, said it was too soon for Russia to abolish the death penalty
- JANUARY 24, 2001DEATH PENALTY
ITALIA
January 24, 2001: the Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penalty presented its conclusive report to the Italian Senate.
- JANUARY 23, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
(French actress) Catherine Deneuve handed a petition...
(French actress) Catherine Deneuve handed a petition against the death penalty signed by over half a million people to the US embassy in Paris
- JANUARY 23, 2001LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Ambassador Anne Desmorr on behalf of the European...
Swedish Ambassador Anne Desmorr on behalf of the European Community's called for Lebanon to drop the death penalty and asked Justice Minister Samir Jisr to suspend 15 planned executions for various crimes
- JANUARY 23, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The Reverend Rob Marshall criticised the disgraceful...
The Reverend Rob Marshall criticised the disgraceful actions of the Palestinian Authority and its show trials
- JANUARY 23, 2001Bosnia & HerzegovinaDEATH PENALTY
The first local trial of six Bosnian Muslims charged...
The first local trial of six Bosnian Muslims charged with war crimes committed against Bosnian Croat prisoners in the Mostar region during the conflict of 1993-94, has begun in Mostar
- JANUARY 23, 2001NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Victor Ombu, advocated...
Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Victor Ombu, advocated the death penalty on communal war mongers as a deterrent
- JANUARY 23, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Mark Andrew Fowler, 35, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p
Mark Andrew Fowler, 35, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p
- JANUARY 23, 2001SudanDEATH PENALTY
Five men who were convicted of armed robbery had their...
Five men who were convicted of armed robbery had their right hands and left feet amputated as punishment
- JANUARY 22, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EU foreign ministers criticised China for its ongoing...
EU foreign ministers criticised China for its ongoing use of the death penalty and its continued human rights violations
- JANUARY 22, 2001DEATH PENALTY
A Texas death-row inmate deserves a new trial because...
A Texas death-row inmate deserves a new trial because his lawyer slept through long stretches of the man's original trial, a defense lawyer argued today as a federal appeals court reconsidered the 17-year-old Houston-area case
- JANUARY 22, 2001DEATH PENALTY
Bill is introduced to establish death penalty
Bill is introduced to establish death penalty
- JANUARY 22, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater...
Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater Romania Party (PRM, the second-biggest party in parliament,) presented the case of Romanian patriot Ilie Ilascu, currently a PRM senator, to the president of the European Democrats' Political Group, to w
- JANUARY 22, 2001PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Sen. Helfrick introduced the following death penalty-related...
Sen. Helfrick introduced the following death penalty-related bills: SB 23 to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to prohibit the imposition of the death penalty; SB 25 to impose a temporary suspension of the death penalty; and SB 29 to prohibit prosecutor
- JANUARY 22, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Illinois Supreme Court's new rules for handling...
The Illinois Supreme Court's new rules for handling capital cases are among the most progressive in the country, death penalty experts said
- JANUARY 21, 2001Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded...
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded in the western city of Jiddah in Saudi Arabia
- JANUARY 21, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme People's Court People announced that who...
The Supreme People's Court People announced that who are engaged in spying activities, including stealing, detecting, purchasing or leaking state secrets in China will face also the death penalty
- JANUARY 21, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded...
Wazir bin Zarif Shinwari, an Afghan man, was beheaded in the western city of Jiddah in Saudi Arabia
- JANUARY 21, 2001TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The issue of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty...
The issue of a moratorium on the use of the death penalty has been under wide discussion
- JANUARY 20, 2001FranceDEATH PENALTY
In Paris police blocked demonstrators protesting against...
In Paris police blocked demonstrators protesting against the death penalty in the United States at the same time that George W
- JANUARY 20, 2001Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
An Alabama man once in line to become the first person...
An Alabama man once in line to become the first person executed by the federal government since 1963 -- and the first condemned under the drug kingpin statute -- had his death sentence set aside by President Clinton, who changed it to life in prison witho
- JANUARY 20, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A spokesman for newly-installed Philippines president...
A spokesman for newly-installed Philippines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said that Philippines leader Joseph Estrada faces the death penalty on corruption charges