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 25, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw led condemnation of...
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw led condemnation of Robert Mugabe after the Zimbabwean president's main rival in the forthcoming election was charged with high treason
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader who...
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader who is standing against President Robert Mugabe in the election on March 9 and 10, was charged with high treason
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw led condemnation of...
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw led condemnation of Robert Mugabe after the Zimbabwean president's main rival in the forthcoming election was charged with high treason
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A Singapore court sentenced two Thai men to hang for...
A Singapore court sentenced two Thai men to hang for a gangland-style killing of a countryman who ran a vice den, court documents showed
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A Singapore court sentenced two Thai men to hang for...
A Singapore court sentenced two Thai men to hang for a gangland-style killing of a countryman who ran a vice den, court documents showed
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Board of Pardons and Paroles spared the life of...
The Board of Pardons and Paroles spared the life of Alexander Williams (see Feb
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
David Hicks, the Australian prisoner in Cuba, was given...
David Hicks, the Australian prisoner in Cuba, was given a new ray of hope of being tried in Australia when the US said it would agree to repatriate British prisoners from Guantanamo Bay
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002LibyaDEATH 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, 2002IraqDEATH PENALTY
The Iraqi regime perpetrated a new massacre in Abu...
The Iraqi regime perpetrated a new massacre in Abu Gharib Prison on [the] outskirts of Baghdad early in February, an Iraqi opposition group said
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002FijiDEATH PENALTY
The Fiji House of Representatives passed an amendment...
The Fiji House of Representatives passed an amendment removing the death penalty from the Penal Code
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Angry laid-off workers and their relatives killed three...
Angry laid-off workers and their relatives killed three managers at financially struggling, state-owned enterprises in central China in 2001, state media and local officials said
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Lamar Brooks , 29, stood without emotion as a judge...
Lamar Brooks , 29, stood without emotion as a judge again gave him 2 death sentences for murdering of Rachel Carlson, 23, and her 3-month-old daughter, Alexis Stuart
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The United States faces possible exclusion from the...
The United States faces possible exclusion from the Council of Europe, where it enjoys observer status, over its continued use of the death penalty, Henriette Girard, a council spokeswoman, said
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A Briton on death row will learn today if the US Supreme...
A Briton on death row will learn today if the US Supreme Court will give him a final appeal
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002United StatesDEATH PENALTY
David Hicks, the Australian prisoner in Cuba, was given...
David Hicks, the Australian prisoner in Cuba, was given a new ray of hope of being tried in Australia when the US said it would agree to repatriate British prisoners from Guantanamo Bay
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002DEATH PENALTY
The United States faces possible exclusion from the...
The United States faces possible exclusion from the Council of Europe, where it enjoys observer status, over its continued use of the death penalty, Henriette Girard, a council spokeswoman, said
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
The Philippines Congress is well on the way to replacing...
The Philippines Congress is well on the way to replacing the 30-year-old Dangerous Drugs Act with a far more stringent measure that includes the death penalty for possession of a mere five grams of marijuana resin and other illegal drugs
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
The Kayhan daily reported that a 28-year-old man by...
The Kayhan daily reported that a 28-year-old man by the name of Nabi was executed in Shiraz
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
A Briton on death row will learn today if the US Supreme...
A Briton on death row will learn today if the US Supreme Court will give him a final appeal
- FEBRUARY 25, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Georgia: death sentence commuted for mentally ill man
February 25, 2002: the Board of Pardons and Paroles of Georgia spared the life of Alexander Williams (see Feb. 19).
- FEBRUARY 24, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Religious tolerance in China is unlikely to follow...
Religious tolerance in China is unlikely to follow in the wake of economic liberalism
- FEBRUARY 24, 2002PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Human rights advocates accused the military for allegedly...
Human rights advocates accused the military for allegedly violating the rights of five New People's Army rebels who were killed in an encounter in Quirino
- FEBRUARY 23, 2002NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The Dutch government denied asylum to Nuriye Kespir,...
The Dutch government denied asylum to Nuriye Kespir, a leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party who is wanted in Turkey to answer terrorism accusations
- FEBRUARY 23, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Dutch government denied asylum to Nuriye Kespir,...
The Dutch government denied asylum to Nuriye Kespir, a leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party who is wanted in Turkey to answer terrorism accusations
- FEBRUARY 23, 2002South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
In a move that is expected to provide a momentum for...
In a move that is expected to provide a momentum for the anti-capital punishment movement, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court's death sentence for a convicted murderer
- FEBRUARY 23, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Richards has written The Hanged Man: The Life and Death...
Richards has written The Hanged Man: The Life and Death of Ronald Ryan and it is a sad, powerful and important document, a new study of one of the darkest episodes in Australian history mounts a powerful argument against capital punishment
- FEBRUARY 23, 2002United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The execution of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged...
The execution of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, remains the single most glaring miscarriage of British justice in modern times
- FEBRUARY 23, 2002DEATH PENALTY
On Capitol Hill legislation is pending in both chambers...
On Capitol Hill legislation is pending in both chambers that would reduce the risk of executing innocent people
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
West Australians demonstrated in front of the Supreme...
West Australians demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court, holding placards advocating the death sentence for paedophiles
- FEBRUARY 22, 2002MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Morocco's King Mohammed pardoned 854 prisoners on the...
Morocco's King Mohammed pardoned 854 prisoners on the eve of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, the official MAP news agency said