Archive timeline
2002
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2002, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 535
- Countries where they were recorded
- 27
- News items in the archive
- 3,937
Latest news of 2002
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Italy's professional football association organised...
Italy's professional football association organised a protest over plans in Nigeria to stone a woman to death
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy's professional football association organised...
Italy's professional football association organised a protest over plans in Nigeria to stone a woman to death
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002IrelandDEATH PENALTY
A man who was sentenced to death in 1980 for the murder...
A man who was sentenced to death in 1980 for the murder of a garda, but whose conviction was later quashed, has brought a High Court challenge to the legality of the existence of capital punishment at the time of his conviction
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Saitama District Court sentenced a 28-year-old...
The Saitama District Court sentenced a 28-year-old Chinese man, formerly a graduate student in Japan, to death for killing his girlfriend and her husband
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Saitama District Court sentenced a 28-year-old...
The Saitama District Court sentenced a 28-year-old Chinese man, formerly a graduate student in Japan, to death for killing his girlfriend and her husband
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Illinois Supreme Court ordered new sentencing hearings...
The Illinois Supreme Court ordered new sentencing hearings for 2 death row inmates
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
The Australian lawyers representing Fijian coup leader...
The Australian lawyers representing Fijian coup leader George Speight and his band of men spent a "terrible, sleepless night" after agreeing to a plea bargain in which Speight would plead guilty to the capital offence of treason so his men would receive l
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
The Fiji government walked out of parliament following...
The Fiji government walked out of parliament following allegations made by Labour Party parliamentarian Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi that Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was also behind the May 2000 coup
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred the conviction...
The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred the conviction of Ruth Ellis to the Court of Appeal
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Highland community council applied for planning permission...
A Highland community council applied for planning permission to erect a 30ft set of gallows to mark the 250th anniversary of the wrongful hanging of James of the Glen
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A youth was sentenced to execution in Tehran
A youth was sentenced to execution in Tehran
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
In Indonesia, seven people were formally charged with...
In Indonesia, seven people were formally charged with mass killings in East Timor in the weeks following the province's independence referendum in 1999
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe...
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has just adopted a text banning the death penalty in all circumstances, including for crimes committed in times of war and imminent threat of war
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Judge Santos Gil of the Regional Trial Court Branch...
Judge Santos Gil of the Regional Trial Court Branch 6 in Tacloban City meted the death penalty on a 45-year-old man for killing a 4-year-old boy in August 1995
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering...
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering a taxi driver in Singapore has little chance of avoiding execution, a senior labour official said
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering...
A Thai man facing the death sentence for murdering a taxi driver in Singapore has little chance of avoiding execution, a senior labour official said
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Armenian National Assembly is to ratify the European...
The Armenian National Assembly is to ratify the European Convention on Human Rights and the provision of its sixth protocol to unconditionally abolish capital punishment, as the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided that all member-count
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002LatviaDEATH PENALTY
Latvia's Saeima [Unicameral Parliament] turned over...
Latvia's Saeima [Unicameral Parliament] turned over draft amendments to several laws that are to be harmonized with the international protocol aimed at the abolition of the death penalty to parliamentary commissions
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The US-based organisation Human Rights Watch said an...
The US-based organisation Human Rights Watch said an "overly broad definition" of terrorism in the Suppression of Terrorism Bill under consideration in the Ugandan parliament means there is a risk that innocent people or petty criminals could be "branded"
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Military Appeal Court, sitting at its Makindye...
The Military Appeal Court, sitting at its Makindye headquarters, Kampala, upheld a death sentence against a UPDF soldier accused of killing three of his colleagues in the barracks
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist Action...
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and Nationalist Action Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli reiterated that the death penalty dispute would not cause any problems in the coalition government
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Alexei...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Alexei Gromov told journalists that Putin's position on the abolition of capital punishment has not changed
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Assembly [parliament] Speaker Omer Izgi pointed out...
Assembly [parliament] Speaker Omer Izgi pointed out that certain EU countries, such as France and Greece, have retained the death penalty for war crimes or near war crimes
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Yukunari Kawamura, 37, and his employee, Tetsuya Nomura,...
Yukunari Kawamura, 37, and his employee, Tetsuya Nomura, 32, were sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of two women to settle a debt, judicial officials said
- FEBRUARY 21, 2002DEATH PENALTY
ITALIAN FOOTBALLERS KICK OFF SOLIDARITY FOR SAFIYA
February 21, 2002: Italian top-flight footballers, referees and linesmen will launch an unprecedented humanitarian campaign next weekend. All 25 men on the pitch will line up for league matches wearing t-shirts bearing the picture of Safiya Hussaini and t
- FEBRUARY 20, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain, the Italian Radicals and other associations...
Hands off Cain, the Italian Radicals and other associations demonstrated in protest as Syrian dictator Bashar Assad met Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni and demanded that Italian authorities make human rights in Syria the focus of bilateral talks
- FEBRUARY 20, 2002SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on his first visit...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on his first visit to the West since the September 11 attacks, pledged to support the battle against terrorism, but warned that a complete victory would be impossible
- FEBRUARY 20, 2002SyriaDEATH PENALTY
Hands off Cain, the Italian Radicals and other associations...
Hands off Cain, the Italian Radicals and other associations demonstrated in protest as Syrian dictator Bashar Assad met Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni and demanded that Italian authorities make human rights in Syria the focus of bilateral talks
- FEBRUARY 20, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
A debt collector escaped the gallows when the Court...
A debt collector escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal in Kuala Lumpur set aside the death sentence imposed on him by the High Court for heroin trafficking and amended the charge to one of possession
- FEBRUARY 20, 2002OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
A Kay County jury has sentenced to death Edward Bruce...
A Kay County jury has sentenced to death Edward Bruce Primeaux, 54, for the July 5, 2000 killing of Julia Bear, 61, and Warren Littlecook, 76,