Archive timeline
2003
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2003, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2003
- OCTOBER 23, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian court sentenced Ian Millar, a 54 year old...
A Nigerian court sentenced Ian Millar, a 54 year old British businessman, to death by hanging for murdering his 43-year-old partner Anne Marie Gale, on April 12, 2002, in their home in Lagos
- OCTOBER 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Speedy Trial Tribunal of Chittagong, Bangladesh,...
The Speedy Trial Tribunal of Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Mohammed Akram Hossain, alias Ripon, and Jamal Hossain on charges of killing a teenage girl after raping her
- OCTOBER 23, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
"The Hidden Gulag - Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps",...
"The Hidden Gulag - Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps", a report by the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said that close to 200,000 political prisoners worked in conditions of slave labour and near-starvation in dozens of secret prison camp
- OCTOBER 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Women and Children Repression Control Tribunal in...
A Women and Children Repression Control Tribunal in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced Mohammed Sekender to death for killing his wife for dowry in 1997
- OCTOBER 23, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
According to Jordan Times, two brothers, convicted...
According to Jordan Times, two brothers, convicted of the premeditated murder of a Jerash man in October 2001, were executed at Swaqa prison
- OCTOBER 23, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
An Ohio prisoner convicted of strangling his cellmate...
An Ohio prisoner convicted of strangling his cellmate has been sentenced to execution
- OCTOBER 23, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts...
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts to press for a common EU position on the presentation by the EU of a resolution for a UN moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
After the European Parliament approved a resolution...
After the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN, Marco Pannella, MEP and Hands Off Cain President, declared: "It's time that President Frattini affirms convic
- OCTOBER 23, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts...
Italian Minister Frattini intervened with his EU counterparts to press for a common EU position on the presentation by the EU of a resolution for a UN moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament unanimously approved a second...
The European Parliament unanimously approved a second resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN
- OCTOBER 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain welcomed the European Parliament's unanimous...
Hands Off Cain welcomed the European Parliament's unanimous approval of a resolution calling for the presentation of the moratorium resolution at the ongoing UN General Assembly currently in session in New York without delay
- OCTOBER 23, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain welcomed the European Parliament's unanimous...
Hands Off Cain welcomed the European Parliament's unanimous approval of a resolution calling for the presentation of the moratorium resolution at the ongoing UN General Assembly currently in session in New York without delay
- OCTOBER 23, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
After the European Parliament approved a resolution...
After the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN, Marco Pannella, MEP and Hands Off Cain President, declared: "It's time that President Frattini affirms convic
- OCTOBER 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
EP APPROVES SECOND RESOLUTION FOR UN MORATORIUM
October 23, 2003: the European Parliament unanimously approved Thursday a second resolution calling for an initiative in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty at the UN.”
- OCTOBER 22, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament opened the debate on a new...
The European Parliament opened the debate on a new motion calling on the Italian presidency to present at the ongoing UN General Assembly in New York a resolution for a worldwide moratorium on executions
- OCTOBER 22, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian Sharg newspaper reported that two men found...
The Iranian Sharg newspaper reported that two men found guilty of murder were hanged in Tehran's Evin prison
- OCTOBER 22, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah,...
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah, two Pakistani nationals sentenced to death for heroin smuggling, were beheaded by sword in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- OCTOBER 22, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah,...
Mohammad Ramadan Sardar and Dhaher Shah bin Faqir Shah, two Pakistani nationals sentenced to death for heroin smuggling, were beheaded by sword in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- OCTOBER 22, 2003AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that a new law in Afghanistan proposed...
It was reported that a new law in Afghanistan proposed the death penalty for those who cultivate and traffic in narcotics
- OCTOBER 22, 2003NebraskaDEATH PENALTY
In Omaha, a man who killed 2 children should be sentenced...
In Omaha, a man who killed 2 children should be sentenced to death, a jury found
- OCTOBER 22, 2003South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Beaufort, a jury sentenced Abdiyyah ben Alkebulanyahh...
In Beaufort, a jury sentenced Abdiyyah ben Alkebulanyahh to death
- OCTOBER 22, 2003DEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEBATES NEW MOTION FOR UN MORATORIUM
October 22, 2003: the European Parliament opened the debate on a new motion calling on the Italian presidency to present at the ongoing UN General Assembly in New York a resolution for a worldwide moratorium on executions.
- OCTOBER 21, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
In the Italian Chamber Alleanza Nazionale MP Andrea...
In the Italian Chamber Alleanza Nazionale MP Andrea Ronchi tabled a motion calling on the government to "continue its diplomatic and political action to take definitive steps towards the presentation and adoption by the ongoing General Assembly of a resol
- OCTOBER 21, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Danny Montano's conviction of slaying another inmate...
Danny Montano's conviction of slaying another inmate at Tucson's Cimarron unit is upheld
- OCTOBER 21, 2003DEATH PENALTY
An insurance salesman convicted of murdering his lover's...
An insurance salesman convicted of murdering his lover's estranged husband in a plot to collect on an $800,000 insurance policy was sentenced to death
- OCTOBER 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Five men convicted of drug smuggling and murder were...
Five men convicted of drug smuggling and murder were publicly hanged in the southern Iranian city of Bam, the Jomhuri Eslami newspaper reported
- OCTOBER 20, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Hundreds of convicts on death row or serving life imprisonment...
Hundreds of convicts on death row or serving life imprisonment have demanded the quashing of their sentences and automatic compensation by the Kenyan Government
- OCTOBER 19, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Bodruzzaman...
A court in Sylhet, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Bodruzzaman Bodor, 22, and gave life imprisonment to five others, after convicting them of murder
- OCTOBER 19, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's judiciary moved to dispel speculation that jailed...
Iran's judiciary moved to dispel speculation that jailed dissident Hashem Aghajari had once again been sentenced to death, press reports said
- OCTOBER 19, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
After 68 years and 319 lives taken by the firing squad,...
After 68 years and 319 lives taken by the firing squad, a ceremony was held to mark the end of this execution style and the beginning of death row convicts getting lethal injections