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
- DECEMBER 4, 2002Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control revealed...
The Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control revealed that since 1988 it had solved 66,000 drug-related cases, sentencing 42 people to death and giving life imprisonment to 48
- DECEMBER 4, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Member of Parliament Augusto Syjuco stated that the...
Member of Parliament Augusto Syjuco stated that the sale, manufacture and distribution of counterfeit medicines should be classified as a crime punishable by death through lethal injection
- DECEMBER 4, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister P
Prime Minister P
- DECEMBER 4, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
The Republican-controlled Illinois Senate approved...
The Republican-controlled Illinois Senate approved a watered-down version of Gov
- DECEMBER 4, 2002JordanDEATH PENALTY
Yasir Abu-Shinnar, who was convicted of the 1994 killing...
Yasir Abu-Shinnar, who was convicted of the 1994 killing of a Jordanian diplomat in Beirut by the State Security Court, was executed at Swaqa prison at dawn, official sources said
- DECEMBER 4, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi King Fahd commuted the death sentences of 17...
Saudi King Fahd commuted the death sentences of 17 Saudis convicted of rioting, ordering them to instead serve 10 years in jail, the Interior Ministry said
- DECEMBER 4, 2002PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
In Lancaster, Landon D
In Lancaster, Landon D
- DECEMBER 4, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
In an open letter to the press, Iranian dissident academic...
In an open letter to the press, Iranian dissident academic Hashim Aghajari took on his conservative opponents, mocking his death sentence for blasphemy as a political verdict
- DECEMBER 4, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, Leonard Rojas, 52, who confessed to...
In Huntsville, Leonard Rojas, 52, who confessed to killing his common-law wife and brother, whom he suspected of having an affair, was executed
- DECEMBER 4, 2002DEATH PENALTY
SAUDI MONARCH COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST 17 MEN
December 4, 2002: Saudi King Fahd has commuted the death sentences of 17 Saudis convicted of rioting, ordering them to instead serve 10 years in jail, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
- DECEMBER 3, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Times Of India published an interview with lawyer...
The Times Of India published an interview with lawyer and activist, Subrata Mukherjee, regarding the proposed implementation of the death penalty for convicted rapists
- DECEMBER 3, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary...
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary question on religious persecution in China in the European Parliament
- DECEMBER 3, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary...
Lista Bonino MEP Olivier Dupuis tabled a parliamentary question on religious persecution in China in the European Parliament
- DECEMBER 2, 2002JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Jamaica plans to bring back hanging to try to stem...
Jamaica plans to bring back hanging to try to stem a rise in violent crime, the Caribbean nation's No
- DECEMBER 2, 2002CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba's top prosecutor defended the island's continued...
Cuba's top prosecutor defended the island's continued use of the death penalty as a deterrent to atrocious common crimes, but noted that the measure is used selectively
- DECEMBER 2, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human...
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human rights dossier on Iraq and Saddam Hussein entitled "the barbarity of his regime"
- DECEMBER 2, 2002JapanDEATH PENALTY
Kyodo News published an interview with Masaharu Harada,...
Kyodo News published an interview with Masaharu Harada, the brother of a murder victim, whose killer Toshihiko Hasegawa had been sentenced to death and executed on December 27, 2001
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human...
The British Foreign Office unveiled a 23-page human rights dossier on Iraq and Saddam Hussein entitled "the barbarity of his regime"
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
An alleged ringleader of the October 12 Bali bombings...
An alleged ringleader of the October 12 Bali bombings would welcome capital punishment for the crime because he considers it a martyr's death, one his lawyers said
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A lawyer for an Iranian professor sentenced to death...
A lawyer for an Iranian professor sentenced to death for insulting Islam appealed the verdict, saying he was acting against his client's wishes a day before the verdict was to become final
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
A group of retired state and federal judges is urging Gov
A group of retired state and federal judges is urging Gov
- DECEMBER 2, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A witch doctor found guilty of sacrificing a nine-year-old...
A witch doctor found guilty of sacrificing a nine-year-old boy six years ago was sentenced to death by a Jharkhand court
- DECEMBER 2, 2002DEATH PENALTY
JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES TO RESUME HANGING
December 2, 2002: Jamaica plans to bring back hanging to try to stem a rise in violent crime, the Caribbean nation´s No. 1 problem, its leader says.
- DECEMBER 1, 2002MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
In an editorial in the News Sunday Times Tan Siok Choo...
In an editorial in the News Sunday Times Tan Siok Choo argued against the proposed implementation of the death penalty for child rapists: "I strongly oppose the proposed death penalty for all rapists - regardless of whether the victim is a child or an adu
- DECEMBER 1, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
In an editorial in the Hindustan Times Vir Sanghvi...
In an editorial in the Hindustan Times Vir Sanghvi argued against the debated implementation of the death penalty to convicted rapists: "I have two problems with the death-penalty-for-rape approach
- NOVEMBER 30, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Gennady Raikov, the leader of the new People's Party,...
Gennady Raikov, the leader of the new People's Party, stated that the party would consistently campaign for Russia to bring back the death penalty and outlaw homosexuality, explaining that the country had too high a crime rate to dispose of capital punish
- NOVEMBER 30, 2002BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man whose name was reported as Mukul was condemned...
A man whose name was reported as Mukul was condemned to death for killing a policeman
- NOVEMBER 30, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Gang rape victim Anjana Mishra stated in the Hindustan...
Gang rape victim Anjana Mishra stated in the Hindustan Times that rapists should not be sentenced to death
- NOVEMBER 30, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India Defence Minister George Fernandes joined a rising...
India Defence Minister George Fernandes joined a rising call to apply the death penalty to rapists, saying Chinese-style execution would be suitable in India where a woman is molested every hour
- NOVEMBER 30, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani's suggestion that...
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani's suggestion that rapists should be hanged does not seem to be favoured by legal experts, social activists and police personnel in the city