Archive timeline
2002
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2002, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2002
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who...
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia over a fatal bombing allege their client and his co-accused were tortured and had their confessions beaten out of them
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002KenyaDEATH PENALTY
The Kenya Human Rights Commission released a report...
The Kenya Human Rights Commission released a report on the Human Rights situation in the country stating that there had been more than 1,500 cases of violence and human rights violations reported countrywide in the first three months of the year
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan's chief justice proposed that one of the...
Afghanistan's chief justice proposed that one of the country's most notorious commanders should face public execution after being convicted on dozens of counts of murder
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who...
Lawyers for Canadian businessman William Sampson, who is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia over a fatal bombing allege their client and his co-accused were tortured and had their confessions beaten out of them
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Four members of Burma's former ruling family were sentenced...
Four members of Burma's former ruling family were sentenced to death by hanging after a court found them guilty of treason
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan,...
Amnesty International's Secretary General, Irene Khan, declared in a press release in Bujumbura that the Government of Burundi must lift the blanket of impunity and take effective action to end the escalating pattern of killings of civilians by the armed
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Calvin King was executed for a robbery-slaying during...
Calvin King was executed for a robbery-slaying during a drug deal while he was on parole
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002OhioDEATH PENALTY
Robert Anthony Buell was executed by lethal injection...
Robert Anthony Buell was executed by lethal injection for the July 11, 1982 abduction and slaying of 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning...
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Nigeria drew bipartisan condemnation from female MPs in the New South Wales parliament
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam...
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam to waive the death penalty against an Australian woman convicted of drug trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning...
The plight of a mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Nigeria drew bipartisan condemnation from female MPs in the New South Wales parliament
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
93.73% of the 1,010 (as of Sept 25, 2002) death row...
93.73% of the 1,010 (as of Sept 25, 2002) death row convicts come from the marginalized sector who cannot afford to hire competent legal defense due to poverty. Of this total, 47
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam...
Australia is maintaining diplomatic pressure on Vietnam to waive the death penalty against an Australian woman convicted of drug trafficking
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International expressed its concern for the...
Amnesty International expressed its concern for the safety of 20 prisoners held by the Ugandan army in Gulu
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002HondurasDEATH PENALTY
The Security Ministry's head of internal affairs, Maria...
The Security Ministry's head of internal affairs, Maria Luisa Borjas, said that police officers had been involved in the summary execution of at least 20 suspected criminals over the last four years
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors urged an Islamic court in northwestern...
Prosecutors urged an Islamic court in northwestern Nigeria to throw out an appeal by a man sentenced to death by stoning for raping a young girl because his insanity claim was untenable
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
The anti-Saddam dossier commissioned by British Prime...
The anti-Saddam dossier commissioned by British Prime Minister Tony Blair reported that approximately 4,000 people were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in 1984, 3,000 at Mahjar prison between 1993 and 1998 and about 2,500 between 1997 and 1999 in a "prison
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman and a man were stoned to death in a west Iranian...
A woman and a man were stoned to death in a west Iranian town after 15 years of imprisonment, the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (CNRI) said
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2002United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The United States executes two thirds of all child...
The United States executes two thirds of all child offenders killed by the death penalty around the world, according to a report by Amnesty International
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
State media reported that Liu Jingsheng, 47, was executed...
State media reported that Liu Jingsheng, 47, was executed by lethal injection, hours after a court rejected his appeal against the sentence
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
A federal judge in Vermont declared the existing national...
A federal judge in Vermont declared the existing national capital punishment law unusable, a decision that could have implications for every defendant facing the federal death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002DEATH PENALTY
A federal judge in Vermont declared the existing national...
A federal judge in Vermont declared the existing national capital punishment law unusable, a decision that could have implications for every defendant facing the federal death penalty
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Rex Mays, 42, was executed today
Rex Mays, 42, was executed today
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002Côte d’IvoireDEATH PENALTY
Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara said...
Ivory Coast opposition leader Alassane Ouattara said in an interview that the security forces who executed former junta leader Robert Guei had also tried to kill him the week previously
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International published a new report "Poverty,...
Amnesty International published a new report "Poverty, isolation and ill-treatment
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Indians were sentenced to death by a Dubai court...
Three Indians were sentenced to death by a Dubai court for possessing and dealing in drugs
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union urged China to improve its human...
The European Union urged China to improve its human rights record but said it believed the situation was gradually improving
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A female Russian citizen was sentenced to death in...
A female Russian citizen was sentenced to death in China's Yongan province for drug smuggling
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yelena Timchenko, a female of Russian citizenship,...
Yelena Timchenko, a female of Russian citizenship, was sentenced to death in China's Yongan province for drug smuggling, a report from the Russian Foreign Ministry revealed
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2002United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
Three Indians were sentenced to death by a Dubai court...
Three Indians were sentenced to death by a Dubai court for possessing and dealing in drugs