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 20, 2001DEATH PENALTY
PHILIPPINES
January 20, 2001: former President Joseph Estrada risks the death penalty for corruption.
- JANUARY 19, 2001AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Taleban...
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Taleban had executed at least 100 civilians after recapturing an area of central Afghanistan early in January, 2001
- JANUARY 19, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liao Buhuang and Wu Tongzhu, two men who abducted 154...
Liao Buhuang and Wu Tongzhu, two men who abducted 154 women and two children and made 840,000 yuan from selling them to people in the richer eastern provinces were also executed
- JANUARY 19, 2001TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Condemned murderer Erskine Leroy Johnson might not...
Condemned murderer Erskine Leroy Johnson might not have to stay on death row much longer because the Tennessee Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for him
- JANUARY 19, 2001IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
In an opinion, the Illinois Supreme court ordered a...
In an opinion, the Illinois Supreme court ordered a new hearing for a DuPage County man sentenced to death in the 1986 murder of an Aurora woman
- JANUARY 19, 2001CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A judge sent Robert Bloom Jr
A judge sent Robert Bloom Jr
- JANUARY 19, 2001Sud DakotaDEATH PENALTY
A judge sentenced an Alaska man to death by lethal...
A judge sentenced an Alaska man to death by lethal injection for last year's brutal slaying of 19-year-old Chester A
- JANUARY 19, 2001DelawareDEATH PENALTY
A federal appeals court judge criticised 2 colleagues...
A federal appeals court judge criticised 2 colleagues for denying a death-row inmate's appeal
- JANUARY 19, 2001DEATH PENALTY
CHINA
January 19, 2001: other four men executed for abducting and selling women and children. Two more sentenced to death for murder and poisoning.
- JANUARY 18, 2001ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zheng Mingyue, Zheng Mingliang, Liu Jiuwei and Han...
Zheng Mingyue, Zheng Mingliang, Liu Jiuwei and Han Chenggui, all male farmers from Siyang County of Jiangsu Province, were executed in Suqian City of east China's Jiangsu Province for organizing an underground gang who abducted, raped and sold women in Yu
- JANUARY 18, 2001OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Dion Athanasius Smallwood, 31, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p
Dion Athanasius Smallwood, 31, was pronounced dead at 9:09 p
- JANUARY 18, 2001TexasDEATH PENALTY
Alvin Urial Goodwin, 37 was pronounced dead at 6:22 p
Alvin Urial Goodwin, 37 was pronounced dead at 6:22 p
- JANUARY 18, 2001DEATH PENALTY
An old saying bandied about in courthouses holds that...
An old saying bandied about in courthouses holds that a defendant who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client, but Akeem Muhammad's foolishness won him a chance to escape the death penalty for his conviction in a 1995 Broward County murder
- JANUARY 18, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
[photographer] Oliviero Toscani commenting on the postponement...
[photographer] Oliviero Toscani commenting on the postponement of the execution of North Carolina death row inmate Bobby Lee Harris, said "I hope he gets a commutation of his sentence, or even a pardon
- JANUARY 18, 2001DEATH PENALTY
CHINA
January 18, 2001: four men were executed in Suqian City.
- JANUARY 17, 2001Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein, on criticism...
PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein, on criticism of the Palestinian judiciary by Western and domestic legal parties on the executions policy, the justice minister said: "Our people are in a state of war, which has been launched against them, and we are
- JANUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in...
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed, state radio reported
- JANUARY 17, 2001PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved...
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved from execution in a decision issued by the Ras Al Khaima court
- JANUARY 17, 2001RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored...
Romanian Senate passed the extradition bill sponsored by Government
- JANUARY 17, 2001Nord CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A condemned inmate whose picture, taken by Oliviero...
A condemned inmate whose picture, taken by Oliviero Toscani, was part of a Benetton campaign against capital punishment received a stay of execution
- JANUARY 17, 2001IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Meretz leader Yossi Sarid condemned the executions:...
Meretz leader Yossi Sarid condemned the executions: "As a person who opposes assassinations of Palestinians by Israel, I believe I have the full moral authority to call on the PA to stop the executions," he said
- JANUARY 17, 2001ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain organised a demonstration in front of...
Hands off Cain organised a demonstration in front of the Palestinian delegation premises in Rome
- JANUARY 17, 2001IndianaDEATH PENALTY
A bill to abolish the death penalty in the state and...
A bill to abolish the death penalty in the state and commute the sentences of those on death row to life in prison without parole (HB 1598) was introduced by Rep
- JANUARY 17, 2001United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved...
Mary Jane Ramos, a Filipino domestic helper, was saved from execution for murder in a decision issued by the Ras Al Khaima court, after President Estrada told Philippine embassy officials in Dubai to exhaust whatever funds to make sure the defense lawyers
- JANUARY 17, 2001IndianaDEATH PENALTY
HB 1679 sponsored by Rep
HB 1679 sponsored by Rep
- JANUARY 17, 2001OmanDEATH PENALTY
Salah bin Ahmad bib Darwish was executed by firing...
Salah bin Ahmad bib Darwish was executed by firing squad for murder in Oman
- JANUARY 17, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN
Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed, state radio reported.
- JANUARY 16, 2001IranDEATH PENALTY
Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public...
Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public stoning for a woman convicted of murdering her husband with the help of her lover
- JANUARY 16, 2001PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The government has promulgated the Juvenile Justice...
The government has promulgated the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2000, which prohibits death penalty for a child under 18 years of age
- JANUARY 16, 2001ColombiaDEATH PENALTY
Twenty gunmen suspected rightist paramilitary members...
Twenty gunmen suspected rightist paramilitary members stopped a bus in western Colombia and executed 10 passengers