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
- DECEMBER 26, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
(continued from above) In 1988, the Supreme Court prohibited...
(continued from above) In 1988, the Supreme Court prohibited the execution of defendants who were younger than 16 at the time of their crimes
- DECEMBER 26, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences...
The Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences passed on three defendants in a murder case
- DECEMBER 26, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The decision by a Virginia jury to spare Lee Boyd Malvo's...
The decision by a Virginia jury to spare Lee Boyd Malvo's life after finding him guilty in the 2003 Washington-area sniper rampage may hasten a movement to abolish the death penalty for juvenile killers, legal experts say
- DECEMBER 26, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The nation's overall human rights record improved in...
The nation's overall human rights record improved in 2003, while there is still room for improvement in various areas, according to the government's annual human rights report
- DECEMBER 26, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Chief Mike Ozekhome, a lawyer and human rights activist...
Chief Mike Ozekhome, a lawyer and human rights activist prominent in the pro-democracy struggle until the military left the political centre stage in 1999, joined the national debate on the retention of the death penalty in Nigeria
- DECEMBER 26, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Nanning Intermediate People's Court in China's...
The Nanning Intermediate People's Court in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region sentenced Ma Hanhua and Weng Rujin to death for drug trafficking
- DECEMBER 25, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Thu, a 28 year old unemployed man, was sentenced...
Nguyen Van Thu, a 28 year old unemployed man, was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a motorbike taxi driver in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Tay
- DECEMBER 25, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Most Iraqis consider former President Saddam Hussein...
Most Iraqis consider former President Saddam Hussein a criminal, yet they still believe he deserves a fair trial before Iraqi judges, according to poll results released in Baghdad
- DECEMBER 25, 2003MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Baltimore County prosecutors have dropped their efforts...
Baltimore County prosecutors have dropped their efforts to send convicted killer Courtney Bryant to death row for the murder of a Hunt Valley Burger King worker, agreeing instead to have the 21-year-old serve a sentence of life in prison without the possi
- DECEMBER 25, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Yinchuan, Ningxia Autonomous Region, sentenced...
A court in Yinchuan, Ningxia Autonomous Region, sentenced Sun Denglin, Zhu Weilin, Xu Penghui and Zhou Shulin to death for issuing false specialised value-added tax invoices, the Ningxia Ribao newspaper reported
- DECEMBER 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Speedy Trial Court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced...
A Speedy Trial Court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sentenced five people to death and two others to life imprisonment for killing two brothers, Mizanur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman, in the city's Mirpur Shewrapara district on November 1, 2001
- DECEMBER 23, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A Maricopa County jury handed down the sentence in...
A Maricopa County jury handed down the sentence in the delayed penalty phase in the trial of Ruben Myran Johnson, 24, convicted Nov
- DECEMBER 23, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
Jasper McMurtrey left the Pima County Courthouse 22...
Jasper McMurtrey left the Pima County Courthouse 22 years after being sentenced to death for a double murder at a notorious biker bar
- DECEMBER 23, 2003MozambiqueDEATH PENALTY
The Mozambican Human Rights League (LDH) accused the...
The Mozambican Human Rights League (LDH) accused the police of carrying out summary executions of detainees in the country
- DECEMBER 23, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International wrote to Ugandan President Museveni...
Amnesty International wrote to Ugandan President Museveni urging him to abolish the death penalty
- DECEMBER 23, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
The German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was categorical:...
The German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was categorical: "I am against the death penalty, in all cases
- DECEMBER 23, 2003MassachusettsDEATH PENALTY
Gary Sampson, 44, who confessed to carjacking and killing...
Gary Sampson, 44, who confessed to carjacking and killing 2 men during a weeklong crime spree was sentenced to death by a federal jury
- DECEMBER 23, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
A jury in Chesapeake, Va
A jury in Chesapeake, Va
- DECEMBER 22, 2003NebraskaDEATH PENALTY
A jury in Madison has decided Jorge Galindo deserves...
A jury in Madison has decided Jorge Galindo deserves the death penalty for the 2002 murders of 5 people at the US Bank in Norfolk
- DECEMBER 22, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Mafia kingpin Liu Yong was sentenced to death and executed...
Mafia kingpin Liu Yong was sentenced to death and executed despite doubts over his confession, in a ruling that marked the first time the Supreme Court has circumvented China's two-trial criminal law system
- DECEMBER 22, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
"I am personally against the death penalty, but it...
"I am personally against the death penalty, but it would be incorrenct to impose conditions on the Iraqi people before the trial has even to commence", said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini when questioned by journalists on the possibility of putt
- DECEMBER 22, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
"If things are to be done coherently, Iraqi law should...
"If things are to be done coherently, Iraqi law should make way for international law, for the crimes committed by Saddam were crimes against humanity", declared instead Hands Off Cain Secretary Sergio D'Elia, highlighting what has happened in the past wi
- DECEMBER 22, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
"I am personally against the death penalty, but it...
"I am personally against the death penalty, but it would be incorrenct to impose conditions on the Iraqi people before the trial has even to commence", said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini when questioned by journalists on the possibility of putt
- DECEMBER 22, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
According to the President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski,...
According to the President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, visiting Polish troops near Baghdad, Saddam should be tried by a court in his own country with the presence of international observers
- DECEMBER 22, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
"If things are to be done coherently, Iraqi law should...
"If things are to be done coherently, Iraqi law should make way for international law, for the crimes committed by Saddam were crimes against humanity", declared instead Hands Off Cain Secretary Sergio D'Elia, highlighting what has happened in the past wi
- DECEMBER 22, 2003PolandDEATH PENALTY
According to the President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski,...
According to the President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, visiting Polish troops near Baghdad, Saddam should be tried by a court in his own country with the presence of international observers
- DECEMBER 22, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation...
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran, in which the Assembly expressed its serious concern at the continuing violations of human rights in Iran, the continued deterioration of the situation with regard to freed
- DECEMBER 22, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation...
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran, in which the Assembly expressed its serious concern at the continuing violations of human rights in Iran, the continued deterioration of the situation with regard to freed
- DECEMBER 22, 2003CanadaDEATH PENALTY
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation...
The General Assembly adopted a resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran, in which the Assembly expressed its serious concern at the continuing violations of human rights in Iran, the continued deterioration of the situation with regard to freed
- DECEMBER 22, 2003New YorkDEATH PENALTY
A Brooklyn deadlocked jury spared the life of Emile...
A Brooklyn deadlocked jury spared the life of Emile Dixon, foiling Attorney General John Ashcroft's bid for the death penalty