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
- APRIL 12, 2002EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian court sentenced five members of a Somali...
An Ethiopian court sentenced five members of a Somali Islamic group to be publicly hanged for killing 27 civilians in bomb attacks during the mid-1990s
- APRIL 12, 2002SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian court sentenced five members of a Somali...
An Ethiopian court sentenced five members of a Somali Islamic group to be publicly hanged for killing 27 civilians in bomb attacks during the mid-1990s
- APRIL 12, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Capital punishment in Singapore has long been shrouded...
Capital punishment in Singapore has long been shrouded in silence, with little public debate about the issue and even less information on how the process is carried out
- APRIL 12, 2002IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
With more and more people in Indonesia producing and...
With more and more people in Indonesia producing and trafficking psychotropic drugs, including ecstasy, the courts should begin handing down the death penalty to punish these crimes, police and observers said
- APRIL 12, 2002PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan condemned seven...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan condemned seven activists of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan [militant outfit of Sunni sect] to death for hurling hand-grenades at a religious gathering resulting in the death of a person
- APRIL 12, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
In a survey on enterprises done by Social Weather Stations...
In a survey on enterprises done by Social Weather Stations resulted that of the 505 companies surveyed from September to December 2001, 52 percent want imprisonment for those guilty of corruption and 20 percent said that corrupt public and private officia
- APRIL 11, 2002EgyptDEATH PENALTY
A one-armed butcher from Egypt was sentenced to death...
A one-armed butcher from Egypt was sentenced to death in the US for molesting, killing and carving up a 12-year-old boy with a meat cleaver in California
- APRIL 11, 2002BrazilDEATH PENALTY
According to research conducted on 2,048 people in...
According to research conducted on 2,048 people in 131 of the country's cities by the 'Brasmarket SBT/HOJE EM DIA' institute between the 20th and the 28th of March 2002, 50
- APRIL 11, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man for shooting dead...
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Saudi man for shooting dead a soldier outside an air base, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
- APRIL 11, 2002UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
A man was sentenced to death for murdering his aunt...
A man was sentenced to death for murdering his aunt and a cousin during a robbery in the northwest of Uzbekistan, the newspaper Na Postu reported
- APRIL 11, 2002AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
The Alabama legislature passed a bill to change the...
The Alabama legislature passed a bill to change the primary method of execution from the electric chair to lethal injection
- APRIL 11, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
William Burns, 43, who gunned down Johnny Lynn Hamlett...
William Burns, 43, who gunned down Johnny Lynn Hamlett on March 27, 1981 and robbed him of $110, was executed
- APRIL 11, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China welcomed the absence of UN criticism of its human...
China welcomed the absence of UN criticism of its human rights record at an annual rights meeting, saying the lack of a censure showed increasing international recognition of China's stand on rights
- APRIL 11, 2002DEATH PENALTY
China welcomed the absence of UN criticism of its human...
China welcomed the absence of UN criticism of its human rights record at an annual rights meeting, saying the lack of a censure showed increasing international recognition of China's stand on rights
- APRIL 11, 2002MississippiDEATH PENALTY
In Senatobia a Tate County jury, sentenced Jan Michael...
In Senatobia a Tate County jury, sentenced Jan Michael Brawner to death for the April 25, 2001 murder of 4 family members
- APRIL 10, 2002KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Fahd Abdullah Ali was hanged for murder
Fahd Abdullah Ali was hanged for murder
- APRIL 10, 2002TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
One hundred people convicted of murder have had their...
One hundred people convicted of murder have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment by Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, Home Affairs Minister Mohammed Seif Khatib said
- APRIL 10, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel...
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel of having killed some 500 Palestinians in its West Bank offensive, saying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had gone "crazy
- APRIL 10, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel...
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat accused Israel of having killed some 500 Palestinians in its West Bank offensive, saying Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had gone "crazy
- APRIL 10, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The pro-Hamas Palestinian Information Centre web site...
The pro-Hamas Palestinian Information Centre web site identified the six Palestinians condemned to death for collaboration with Israel as Muhammad Thabit Khalil al-Ra'i, 47, Sami Khadr Isma'il Hajji, 40, Mahmud Muhammad Abd-al-Salam al-Sharif, 52, and Suh
- APRIL 10, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Jose Santellan, 40, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p
Jose Santellan, 40, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p
- APRIL 10, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the...
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the world doubled in 2001, mainly because of a crackdown on crime in China, Amnesty International said
- APRIL 10, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the...
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the world doubled in 2001, mainly because of a crackdown on crime in China, Amnesty International said
- APRIL 10, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the...
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the world doubled in 2001, mainly because of a crackdown on crime in China, Amnesty International said
- APRIL 10, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the...
The number of state-sanctioned executions around the world doubled in 2001, mainly because of a crackdown on crime in China, Amnesty International said
- APRIL 10, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on the governor of Anambra...
Amnesty International called on the governor of Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria, to end human rights abuses committed by its "crime busting" unit, the so-called Bakassi Boys
- APRIL 10, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
MEPs approved a resolution supporting increased cooperation...
MEPs approved a resolution supporting increased cooperation between the EU and China
- APRIL 10, 2002IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The radical pro-Pakistan militant outfit Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen...
The radical pro-Pakistan militant outfit Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen (JuM), banned under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), threatened to kill those who contest or campaign in the next assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir
- APRIL 10, 2002LebanonDEATH PENALTY
The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group offered...
The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group offered to free a captive Israeli colonel in return for the safety of around 100 Palestinian fighters besieged in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin
- APRIL 10, 2002IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group offered...
The head of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group offered to free a captive Israeli colonel in return for the safety of around 100 Palestinian fighters besieged in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin