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
- JUNE 30, 2002KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Three Bangladeshis were hanged at Nayif Palace after...
Three Bangladeshis were hanged at Nayif Palace after being convicted of killing a Sri Lankan woman
- JUNE 30, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Three Bangladeshis were hanged at Nayif Palace after...
Three Bangladeshis were hanged at Nayif Palace after being convicted of killing a Sri Lankan woman
- JUNE 30, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A new anti-drugs book, offers a rare glimpse of the...
A new anti-drugs book, offers a rare glimpse of the chilling end awaiting drug dealers
- JUNE 30, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Two executions were carried out in different Iranian cities
Two executions were carried out in different Iranian cities
- JUNE 29, 2002BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The High Court of Barbados granted a stay of execution...
The High Court of Barbados granted a stay of execution for four prisoners who were to have been hanged on July 2 in the Caribbean nation's first executions since 1984
- JUNE 29, 2002BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Belarus's opposition parties intends to act together...
Belarus's opposition parties intends to act together in the event the government calls a national referendum to extend Belarusian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka's presidential term
- JUNE 29, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Four people, Saeid, Siamak, Babak and an unidentified...
Four people, Saeid, Siamak, Babak and an unidentified man were sentenced to death in Tehran
- JUNE 29, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that provision...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that provision that the terrorist convicts who were sentenced to death penalty and whose punishment was commuted to life imprisonment would not benefit from conditional release could be included in a law that would b
- JUNE 28, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three men were executed for child rape in June, including...
Three men were executed for child rape in June, including a teacher convicted of raping six girls aged seven and eight
- JUNE 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Anti Terrorists Courts disposed off 78 cases during...
Anti Terrorists Courts disposed off 78 cases during the past three months
- JUNE 28, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Frank and Laurel Gilford finally put to rest the demons...
Frank and Laurel Gilford finally put to rest the demons associated with the murder of Mr Gilford's sister Yvonne in Saudi Arabia in 1996 as the new children's day surgery unit at the Women's and Children's Hospital [in Adelaide, Australia] was inaugurated
- JUNE 28, 2002CanadaDEATH PENALTY
China's alleged smuggling mastermind, Lai Changxing,...
China's alleged smuggling mastermind, Lai Changxing, will not have to stay in jail as he keeps up his fight to remain in Canada as a political refugee
- JUNE 28, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's alleged smuggling mastermind, Lai Changxing,...
China's alleged smuggling mastermind, Lai Changxing, will not have to stay in jail as he keeps up his fight to remain in Canada as a political refugee
- JUNE 28, 2002United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
An appeals court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
An appeals court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has upheld the death sentences of two nationals for raping an Egyptian woman, 28, at her home
- JUNE 28, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Additional Session Judge, Rawalpindi Pervez Ali Shah...
Additional Session Judge, Rawalpindi Pervez Ali Shah has awarded death sentence to the murderer
- JUNE 28, 2002ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italy intends to front the campaign for a global moratorium...
Italy intends to front the campaign for a global moratorium on executions through a UN resolution following the defeat of the same proposal at the UN General Assembly in 1999, the Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Baccini said at the launc
- JUNE 28, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court found Vinai Charoensrisomboon,...
The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court found Vinai Charoensrisomboon, alias To Texas, guilty of the premeditated murders of three members of the Mangkornhong family and sentenced him to death penalty
- JUNE 28, 2002MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Robert H
Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Robert H
- JUNE 28, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Three male convicts at Bang Kwang Central Prison in...
Three male convicts at Bang Kwang Central Prison in Nonthaburi were executed a prison official said
- JUNE 28, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was held a session of " roundtable", where the issues,...
It was held a session of " roundtable", where the issues, concerning justice ministry's cooperation with mass media in resolution of actual problems of legal culture forming in the society
- JUNE 28, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
A public poll carried out by Turkey Economic and Social...
A public poll carried out by Turkey Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) showed that 90 percent of the Turkish people were not satisfied with democracy in Turkey and 58 percent of the Turkish society didn't know what Copenhagen criteria were
- JUNE 28, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 28, 2002DEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN LAUNCHES THE 2002 REPORT
June 28, 2002: the 2002 Report THE DEATH PENALTY SITUATION WORLDWIDE will be presented to the media today at 10.45 am at HOC´s headquarters in Via di Torre Argentina 76, Rome
- JUNE 28, 2002DEATH PENALTY
ITALY WILL FRONT THE CAMPAIGN FOR A UN MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
June 28, 2002: the Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Baccini said the Italian government will propose once more a resolution for a global moratorium on executions at the United Nations General Assembly by 2003.
- JUNE 27, 2002DEATH PENALTY
A UK MP representing Knowsley South, Eddie O'Hara,...
A UK MP representing Knowsley South, Eddie O'Hara, urged US President George Bush to scrap the death penalty
- JUNE 27, 2002Sud CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Aiken, William "Junior" Downs admitted he raped...
In Aiken, William "Junior" Downs admitted he raped and killed a 6-year-old boy
- JUNE 27, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
A messenger who murdered his colleague, Ms Karen da...
A messenger who murdered his colleague, Ms Karen da Nobrega, in coldblood at Century Towers in Harare in 2001 to facilitate theft of over $230 000 mostly in foreign currency, was sentenced to death by the High Court
- JUNE 27, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Three Nigerians sentenced to death in Malaysia for...
Three Nigerians sentenced to death in Malaysia for dadah trafficking in 1995 are seeking to revise the decision of the Federal Court affirming their penalty
- JUNE 27, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Three Nigerians sentenced to death in Malaysia for...
Three Nigerians sentenced to death in Malaysia for dadah trafficking in 1995 are seeking to revise the decision of the Federal Court affirming their penalty
- JUNE 27, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A UK MP representing Knowsley South, Eddie O'Hara,...
A UK MP representing Knowsley South, Eddie O'Hara, urged US President George Bush to scrap the death penalty