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
- AUGUST 9, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The head of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Great Ayatollah...
The head of Iran's Assembly of Experts, Great Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, has sought the death penalty for a pro-reform journalist who allegedly insulted Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in a speech in the western city of Hamedan
- AUGUST 9, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province,...
Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, sentenced Zhou Hang, director of the Provincial Pharmaceutical Supervision Administration, to death with a two year reprieve
- AUGUST 9, 2002KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
Kyrgyzstan rebutted a report by Amnesty International...
Kyrgyzstan rebutted a report by Amnesty International that it applied the death penalty to mentally retarded people published the international NGO on June 20, 2002
- AUGUST 9, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's Supreme Court modified the death sentence imposed...
India's Supreme Court modified the death sentence imposed on two accused in a multiple murder case into life imprisonment on the ground that death sentence could be awarded only to those who could not be reformed or rehabilitated and if they constituted a
- AUGUST 9, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's Supreme Court modified the death sentence imposed...
India's Supreme Court modified the death sentence imposed on two accused in a multiple murder case into life imprisonment on the ground that death sentence could be awarded only to those who could not be reformed or rehabilitated and if they constituted a
- AUGUST 8, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Mijya Stoyanov and two other unnamed men convicted...
Mijya Stoyanov and two other unnamed men convicted for murder were executed by shooting
- AUGUST 8, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Amarillo, Christopher Chad Britton, a Canadian man,...
In Amarillo, Christopher Chad Britton, a Canadian man, was sentenced to death after being convicted to killing a sheriff's deputy
- AUGUST 8, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (ECPPC)...
The Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (ECPPC) of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) implored President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's administration to opt for justice that heals and not justice that kills
- AUGUST 8, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
T.J. Jones was executed today in the death chamber...
T.J. Jones was executed today in the death chamber of the Huntsville "Walls" Unit
- AUGUST 8, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Chief Beirut Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi requested...
Chief Beirut Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi requested the death penalty for the deputy leader of Esbat al-Ansar and six other members of the Islamic fundamentalist group, for their role in the 1996 murder of a Sidon man
- AUGUST 8, 2002SloveniaDEATH PENALTY
Slovenia supports the EU's efforts for the abolition...
Slovenia supports the EU's efforts for the abolition of death penalty and a global moratorium on death penalty, and has therefore urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to prevent the execution of Mexican national Javier Suarez Medina, who is to be killed by let
- AUGUST 8, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian police are hunting the sons of a woman who burnt...
Indian police are hunting the sons of a woman who burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
- AUGUST 8, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A mail bomb designer in east China was sentenced to...
A mail bomb designer in east China was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a local court
- AUGUST 8, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Singapore has promised Australia it will not hang a...
Singapore has promised Australia it will not hang a British businessman if he is extradited to the city state and convicted of a grisly double murder
- AUGUST 8, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Three persons wiped out an entire family in cold blood...
Three persons wiped out an entire family in cold blood due to sibling rivalry and were sentenced to death
- AUGUST 8, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore has promised Australia it will not hang a...
Singapore has promised Australia it will not hang a British businessman if he is extradited to the city state and convicted of a grisly double murder
- AUGUST 8, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Deaf mute Darryl Beamish, who was on death row in Australia...
Deaf mute Darryl Beamish, who was on death row in Australia 41 years ago for the murder of a wealthy Melbourne heiress, began a new legal fight
- AUGUST 8, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
An average of six overseas Filipino workers arrive...
An average of six overseas Filipino workers arrive in coffins while others are awaiting beheading in the Middle East
- AUGUST 8, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer formally ratified...
Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer formally ratified a package of human rights reforms aimed at preparing the country for European Union membership, his official Web site said
- AUGUST 8, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
The man charged with murdering eight students and injuring...
The man charged with murdering eight students and injuring 15 others at Ikeda Primary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, in 2001, said he would not appeal the decision of the Osaka District Court
- AUGUST 7, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A press briefing was held jointly by the human rights...
A press briefing was held jointly by the human rights and revision of laws committees and the Free Legal Assistance Group to react to Col
- AUGUST 7, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Richard William Kutzner, 59, was executed Wednesday...
Richard William Kutzner, 59, was executed Wednesday evening for killing a suburban Houston woman
- AUGUST 7, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Olivier Dupuis, MEP (Lista Bonino) asked the European...
Olivier Dupuis, MEP (Lista Bonino) asked the European Commission on if it had been informed of the "serious risks" of Mori Katsuhisa being executed in the very near future
- AUGUST 7, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Olivier Dupuis, MEP (Lista Bonino) asked the European...
Olivier Dupuis, MEP (Lista Bonino) asked the European Commission on if it had been informed of the "serious risks" of Mori Katsuhisa being executed in the very near future
- AUGUST 7, 2002EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Egypt sentenced three men to death for murdering a...
Egypt sentenced three men to death for murdering a man whose fiancee one of the killers wanted to marry, a court source said
- AUGUST 7, 2002LesothoDEATH PENALTY
Draft legislation before the Lesotho parliament providing...
Draft legislation before the Lesotho parliament providing stringent penalties for sexual offenders and child abusers proposes the death penalty for people who commit sexual offences knowing they are HIV-positive
- AUGUST 7, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In Ramallah, the Palestinian city just north of Jerusalem,...
In Ramallah, the Palestinian city just north of Jerusalem, a firing squad executed a convicted killer and rapist in the courtyard of Yasser Arafat's compound
- AUGUST 7, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
A British businessman and his Singaporean assistant...
A British businessman and his Singaporean assistant wanted in Singapore in connection with a grisly double murder intend to fight extradition from Australia
- AUGUST 7, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A British businessman and his Singaporean assistant...
A British businessman and his Singaporean assistant wanted in Singapore in connection with a grisly double murder intend to fight extradition from Australia
- AUGUST 7, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Shaoyang Intermediate People's Court, in Hunan Province,...
Shaoyang Intermediate People's Court, in Hunan Province, sentenced Yang Fengjie, Zhou Xiaoqiao, Xie Xiheng and Liu Huaying to death