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
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia is trying seven foreigners accused of...
Saudi Arabia is trying seven foreigners accused of bomb attacks that raised fears of anti-western terror in the kingdom, the interior minister said
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
An Iraqi opposition group reported that two employees...
An Iraqi opposition group reported that two employees of the Basra-based Al-Shuaiba oil institution were executed at the beginning of February
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia is trying seven foreigners accused of...
Saudi Arabia is trying seven foreigners accused of bomb attacks that raised fears of anti-western terror in the kingdom, the interior minister said
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
Members of the disbanded Counter Revolutionary Warfare...
Members of the disbanded Counter Revolutionary Warfare [CRW] unit charged with mutiny and appearing before a military court martial will face the death penalty if found guilty, the Fiji Military Forces legal counsel Lt-Col Mohammed Aziz confirmed
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Senator Gregorio Honasan said he will propose the death...
Senator Gregorio Honasan said he will propose the death penalty against law enforcers and government officials who are found to be selling firearms to criminal syndicates
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian convicted of triple murder as he robbed...
An Iranian convicted of triple murder as he robbed a family home was hanged in the northwestern province of Khorasan, an Iranian newspaper reported
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002FranceDEATH PENALTY
Pierre Brana, the member of French Parliament and EU...
Pierre Brana, the member of French Parliament and EU Commission, who leaded the French delegation during a visit in Turkey said that lifting of capital punishment was a "sine qua non" condition for Turkey's EU membership
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Pierre Brana, the member of French Parliament and EU...
Pierre Brana, the member of French Parliament and EU Commission, who leaded the French delegation during a visit in Turkey said that lifting of capital punishment was a "sine qua non" condition for Turkey's EU membership
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two men were sentenced to death by Shanghai No 1 Intermediate...
Two men were sentenced to death by Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court for murdering a police officer on February 8 in the city's Pudong New Area
- FEBRUARY 27, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A remand prisoner held his cellmate in an arm lock...
A remand prisoner held his cellmate in an arm lock and then smothered him because the youth had messed up their cell and refused to clean it up
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
612 military men were convicted in Armenia in 2001,...
612 military men were convicted in Armenia in 2001, of whom 20% were officers
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002European UnionDEATH PENALTY
A survey of a representative sample of 10,000 young...
A survey of a representative sample of 10,000 young people aged 15-24 published by the European Union's Eurobarometer shows that 27 per cent of European youngsters favour the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Two more leading figures in Zimbabwe's opposition party...
Two more leading figures in Zimbabwe's opposition party were charged with treason as President Mugabe stepped up his drive to secure victory in March's election
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation...
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) received information from the Sudanese Victims of Torture Group (SVTG), a member of the OMCT network, that on 24 January 2002, a sentence of amputation of the right hand was ex
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Officials in [the US state of ] Georgia are preparing...
Officials in [the US state of ] Georgia are preparing to take the final steps towards executing Briton Tracy Housel
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Officials in [the US state of ] Georgia are preparing...
Officials in [the US state of ] Georgia are preparing to take the final steps towards executing Briton Tracy Housel
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
A Perth man wrongly convicted over the hit-and-run...
A Perth man wrongly convicted over the hit-and-run manslaughter of his girlfriend almost 40 years ago won the battle to clear his name in one of Western Australia's most controversial justice cases
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Serbis's parliament abolished the death penalty as...
Serbis's parliament abolished the death penalty as part of a wider criminal law reform
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
To show the government's resolve in stamping out the...
To show the government's resolve in stamping out the drug menace, the Senate passed a bill that seeks to punish with a lethal injection anyone caught with at least 99 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, popularly known as shabu
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
"The campaign of the Zimbabwe Association of Crime...
"The campaign of the Zimbabwe Association of Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation (Zacro) for the abolition of the death penalty (it started in 1993 ndr) is continuing and slowly, people are beginning to respond
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002MissouriDEATH PENALTY
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Carman Deck's...
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that Carman Deck's convictions for the murders of James and Zelma Long in 1996 will stand but overturned two death sentences because of ineffective assistance from his attorney
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED,...
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED, P) on the Commission's paper on an EU strategy towards China was adopted by the Foreign Affairs Committee with one vote against and two abstentions
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED,...
A non-legislative report by Vasco Graga Moura (EPP-ED, P) on the Commission's paper on an EU strategy towards China was adopted by the Foreign Affairs Committee with one vote against and two abstentions
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Sharia court in Dutse, Yobe State sentenced Bello...
A Sharia court in Dutse, Yobe State sentenced Bello Abdulkadir to 80 strokes of the cane for drunkenness
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan might have Sharia but a woman judge says that...
Sudan might have Sharia but a woman judge says that her society is changing
- FEBRUARY 26, 2002CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
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- FEBRUARY 26, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
State Minister Mustafa Yilmaz said: "as you know, death...
State Minister Mustafa Yilmaz said: "as you know, death sentence was lifted in all member countries to the European Union (EU)
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe has sent a clear political message...
The Council of Europe has sent a clear political message that the death penalty is completely unacceptable, Amnesty International said, welcoming the adoption of Protocol No
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation...
The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) called for public intervention in the trial of five Bulgarian nurses and one doctor, one Palestinian and 9 Libyans, in Libya
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a British...
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a British newspaper he would agree to allow five British prisoners alleged to have been Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters, to be tried in British courts