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 18, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal...
An Afghan national - named Jabbar Tajik, son of Jamal - was hanged in Amol for breaking into a house and raping a woman
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Fiji coup leader George Speight escaped the death penalty...
Fiji coup leader George Speight escaped the death penalty when the South Pacific island nation's president commuted a death sentence for treason to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Don Siegelman has asked the Alabama Senate to...
Gov. Don Siegelman has asked the Alabama Senate to give priority to a bill that would change the primary form of execution in Alabama from the electric chair to lethal injection. Alabama and Nebraska are the only 2 states that still use the electric chair
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Samisoni Tikoinasau, the brother of coup leader George...
Samisoni Tikoinasau, the brother of coup leader George Speight, said his brother had been hoodwinked by the military after they promised him and his supporters immunity through the Muanikau Accord which they did not honour
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Deposed the government of Mahendra Chaudhry said he...
Deposed the government of Mahendra Chaudhry said he was surprised by Speight's guilty plea, and the speed with which his sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
New Zealand opposed a death sentence handed down to...
New Zealand opposed a death sentence handed down to Fiji coup leader George Speight, but said he should be jailed for life for overthrowing the South Pacific government in May 2000
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
The managing director of Auckland's Radio Tarana, Robert...
The managing director of Auckland's Radio Tarana, Robert Khan, said the station was flooded with calls from Fiji Indians who were happy at the death sentence but were worried that it would be commuted
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov...
Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov has spoken in favor of the soonest possible ratification of protocol No
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Analysts at the presidential state law department said...
Analysts at the presidential state law department said that The Russian president has no power to lift the moratorium from the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his stance on the use of capital punishment in Russia and noted that he favoured its abolition
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Three prisoners, Mohammad Hossein Mobaraki, Davoud...
Three prisoners, Mohammad Hossein Mobaraki, Davoud Dadashzadeh and Mohammed Asgari were hanged in the early hours in Tehran's Qasr prison
- FEBRUARY 18, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Two men who were sentenced to hang for stabbing a cabby...
Two men who were sentenced to hang for stabbing a cabby to death with a bayonet in August 2001 had their appeals dismissed by the Court of Appeal
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A Tehran court passed two death sentences on Fath Ali...
A Tehran court passed two death sentences on Fath Ali Moradi, and another death sentence on another man
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh gave the death penalty to a man...
A court in Bangladesh gave the death penalty to a man in absentia on a charge of killing his wife
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002LibyaDEATH PENALTY
A Libyan People's Court ordered a new probe in the...
A Libyan People's Court ordered a new probe in the trial of six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, a Bulgarian official said
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
A Libyan People's Court ordered a new probe in the...
A Libyan People's Court ordered a new probe in the trial of six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, a Bulgarian official said
- FEBRUARY 17, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer was publicly hanged in the northern...
A convicted murderer was publicly hanged in the northern city of Qazvin, the daily Iran reported
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002FranceDEATH PENALTY
Some six thousand Kurds from France and Germany took...
Some six thousand Kurds from France and Germany took to the streets of Strasbourg, home of the European Court of Human Rights, to demand the release of jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002FranceDEATH PENALTY
Some six thousand Kurds from France and Germany took...
Some six thousand Kurds from France and Germany took to the streets of Strasbourg, home of the European Court of Human Rights, to demand the release of jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Victoria's Chief Justice, John H
Victoria's Chief Justice, John H
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The state House approved a dozen anti-terrorism measures...
The state House approved a dozen anti-terrorism measures Saturday, including the death penalty for the worst terrorism crimes
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Thomas Miller-El, scheduled to be executed Wednesday...
Thomas Miller-El, scheduled to be executed Wednesday at the Huntsville "Walls" Unit for the November 1985 murder of Douglas Walker, 25, has gained a stay from the nation's Supreme Court as his attorneys seek to prove the racial make-up of the jury made a
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK home secretary David Blunkett stopped the extradition...
UK home secretary David Blunkett stopped the extradition of an Algerian accused of terrorism
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
UK home secretary David Blunkett stopped the extradition...
UK home secretary David Blunkett stopped the extradition of an Algerian accused of terrorism
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Russian Orthodox Church favors continued public...
The Russian Orthodox Church favors continued public discussion on the abolishment of the death penalty in Russia
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court...
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court Tamara Morshchakova described the appeal by the State Duma for [Russian] President [Vladimir Putin] to lift the moratorium on the death penalty as a populist measure
- FEBRUARY 16, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court in Kerman sentenced two men, 23 and...
An Iranian court in Kerman sentenced two men, 23 and 24-years-old, to death
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
It is necessary to keep the death penalty as the capital...
It is necessary to keep the death penalty as the capital punishment for grave crimes, the leader of People's Party of Armenia Stepan Demirchian stated in the interview with the radio station Freedom, touching upon the problem of the abolition of the capit
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002GrenadaDEATH PENALTY
A Grenadian High Court judge ordered the immediate...
A Grenadian High Court judge ordered the immediate release of three men among a group originally sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and members of his Cabinet
- FEBRUARY 15, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Russian State Duma approved an appeal to President...
The Russian State Duma approved an appeal to President Vladimir Putin by 266 votes to 85