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 5, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial...
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial of a Scottish man awaiting execution in America
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers of a Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders...
Lawyers of a Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders of a village council filed appeals against the acquittal of eight of the men who served on the traditional jury
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial...
Hollywood star Susan Sarandon called for the retrial of a Scottish man awaiting execution in America
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Dong Wei, 26, who escaped execution by four minutes...
Dong Wei, 26, who escaped execution by four minutes on April 28 after an appeal judge managed to reach the executioner by mobile phone four minutes prior to his execution, was finally executed
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Ministry of Public Security newspaper reported that...
A Ministry of Public Security newspaper reported that the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, sentenced Ren Yueming, manager of Yinxian County Sanyou Materials Trading Company, to death with two years reprieve and confiscation of all
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Roberto Gungon, one of the two abductors of former...
Roberto Gungon, one of the two abductors of former De La Salle University student Agnes Guirindola was sentenced to death by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court after he was found guilty of kidnapping with serious illegal detention and frustrated murder
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
The Romanian Government approved a bill ratifying Protocol...
The Romanian Government approved a bill ratifying Protocol No
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A sharia appeals court in Nigeria ordered a man sentenced...
A sharia appeals court in Nigeria ordered a man sentenced to death by stoning for raping a nine-year-old girl to appear at a hearing later in September, defence lawyers said
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The second suspect in the kidnapping and frustrated...
The second suspect in the kidnapping and frustrated murder of De La Salle student Agnes Guirindola was ordered to die by lethal injection -seven and a half years after the first suspect was sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit...
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit to Brussels as part of the action plan to explain Turkey's efforts to fulfil Copenhagen Criteria, asked Belgian Minister for European Affairs Annemie Neyts to extradite Fehriye Erdal, suspected of Ozdem
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit...
Turkey Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel, on a visit to Brussels as part of the action plan to explain Turkey's efforts to fulfil Copenhagen Criteria, asked Belgian Minister for European Affairs Annemie Neyts to extradite Fehriye Erdal, suspected of Ozdem
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues...
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) sent a delegation to evaluate the application of Islamic Sharia law and its human rights implications in northern Nigeria, sources close to the Federation said in Paris
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
Barbados passed a pro-hanging constitutional amendment...
Barbados passed a pro-hanging constitutional amendment and Belize expects to do so by December
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Somkliang Soyplai, 44, was executed by shooting
Somkliang Soyplai, 44, was executed by shooting
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Courts: 10 panellists favor life in prison for the...
Courts: 10 panellists favor life in prison for the man who gunned down 3 Anaheim hospital workers
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed by hanging in a Khartoum jail...
Three men were executed by hanging in a Khartoum jail after they were found guilty of killing a woman in the northern part of Sudan in 2001
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A House resolution supported by 131 congressmen was...
A House resolution supported by 131 congressmen was filed urging the President to declare a moratorium on executions pending deliberations on a bill that would repeal Republic Act 7659 or the Death Penalty Law
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Legal Daily reported that the Zhengzhou Intermediate...
The Legal Daily reported that the Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Henan Province, sentenced Chen Bingkun to death for financial fraud
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The head of the parliamentary Unity faction, Galust...
The head of the parliamentary Unity faction, Galust Saakyan, said that the Council of Europe should take a respectful view of the opinion of the Armenian public, who favour the death penalty for the perpetrators of the act of terrorism in the Armenian par
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The head of the parliamentary Unity faction, Galust...
The head of the parliamentary Unity faction, Galust Saakyan, said that the Council of Europe should take a respectful view of the opinion of the Armenian public, who favour the death penalty for the perpetrators of the act of terrorism in the Armenian par
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Tanzania Gender Net-working Programme (TGNP) and...
The Tanzania Gender Net-working Programme (TGNP) and Feminist Activism Coalition (FemAct) urged Tanzania to boycott the forthcoming Miss World beauty pageant to be held in Nigeria in protest of against country's death penalty by stoning for women convicte
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Spaniard Julio Mora walked off death row on Tuesday,...
Spaniard Julio Mora walked off death row on Tuesday, when his sentence was reduced to life in prison during a court hearing in Ft
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Hasan bin Jaber Hroubi was publicly beheaded for murder
Hasan bin Jaber Hroubi was publicly beheaded for murder
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three young men, all convicted of killing girlfriends,...
Three young men, all convicted of killing girlfriends, were executed in Beijing
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
Germany refused to pass on evidence to the US that...
Germany refused to pass on evidence to the US that could lead to the death penalty being invoked against the so-called 20th hijacker
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister John Howard described the death sentence...
Prime Minister John Howard described the death sentence by stoning given to Amina Lawal in Nigeria for having a child out of wedlock, as sickening and said he would relay his feelings to the country's president
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002LithuaniaDEATH PENALTY
President Valdas Adamkus approved the abolition of...
President Valdas Adamkus approved the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister John Howard described the death sentence...
Prime Minister John Howard described the death sentence by stoning given to Amina Lawal in Nigeria for having a child out of wedlock, as sickening and said he would relay his feelings to the country's president
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given...
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given to 88 people in Nyala in the Darfour region of Sudan
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given...
The EU expressed concern over death sentences given to 88 people in Nyala in the Darfour region of Sudan