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
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2003Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
On September 19, the HOC delegation met the Secretary...
On September 19, the HOC delegation met the Secretary to the Justice Ministry Ms Dhara Wijayatilake, who pointed out that Sri Lanka, despite still having the death penalty on its statute books could not align itself with retentionist countries in internat
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
A Hands Off Cain delegation formed by Hon
A Hands Off Cain delegation formed by Hon
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain's mission to India came to a conclusion
Hands Off Cain's mission to India came to a conclusion
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2003FranceDEATH PENALTY
A Moroccan court on sentenced Frenchman Pierre Robert...
A Moroccan court on sentenced Frenchman Pierre Robert to life imprisonment under anti-terrorism legislation introduced following suicide bombings by Islamist extremists in Casablanca in May 2003
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2003MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
A Moroccan court on sentenced Frenchman Pierre Robert...
A Moroccan court on sentenced Frenchman Pierre Robert to life imprisonment under anti-terrorism legislation introduced following suicide bombings by Islamist extremists in Casablanca in May 2003
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Sheik Isa Waziri, renowned Islamic scholar and chairman...
Sheik Isa Waziri, renowned Islamic scholar and chairman of the Kano State Sharia Implementation Advisory Committee, said that the provision of capital punishment would reduce the tendency for committing crimes in the society
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indonesian court sentenced Bali bomber Ali Imron...
An Indonesian court sentenced Bali bomber Ali Imron to life imprisonment for helping to organise and carry out the 2002 bombings that killed 202 people
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Jun, sentenced to death for killing a neighbouring...
Li Jun, sentenced to death for killing a neighbouring businessman in the market he had worked in for several years, was allowed to meet with his wife in the meeting room of the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced four...
The People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced four drug traffickers to death as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
A jury has recommended the death penalty for a 24-year-old...
A jury has recommended the death penalty for a 24-year-old man convicted in the robbery and shooting death of another man 2 years ago
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2003VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
International laws and treaties do not prohibit Virginia...
International laws and treaties do not prohibit Virginia from executing juveniles, a judge ruled in the case against teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Teh Hock Leong, a 33 year old private transport operator,...
Teh Hock Leong, a 33 year old private transport operator, was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia after he was found guilty of trafficking in 580
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
September 15-16, 2003: an HOC delegation comprising...
September 15-16, 2003: an HOC delegation comprising Italian MP Enrico Buemi, Regional Counsellor for Lombardy (Italy) Alessandro Litta Modignani and HOC Board Member Anna Zammit, visited India to lobby for support of a worldwide moratorium on executions t
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Uzbek laws stress that death sentences are not applied...
Uzbek laws stress that death sentences are not applied to convicts who are found to have a mental disorder
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said she was still...
Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said she was still convinced that the death penalty should be retained in Japan, days after she approved the third execution of a death row inmate while she was in office
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
A 38 year old Iranian man identified as A
A 38 year old Iranian man identified as A
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
Ryan's clemencies challenged----32 cases were ineligible,...
Ryan's clemencies challenged----32 cases were ineligible, Supreme Court told Months after former Gov
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The Arizona Supreme Court has overturned Sherman Lee...
The Arizona Supreme Court has overturned Sherman Lee Rutledge's death sentence in the May 1997 murder of Ryan Harris
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
In Jackson County, Circuit Judge Charles Atwell overturned...
In Jackson County, Circuit Judge Charles Atwell overturned Lemoine Carter's death sentences to life without parole
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003BrazilDEATH PENALTY
A report entitled "Summary Executions in Brazil 1997-2003"...
A report entitled "Summary Executions in Brazil 1997-2003" compiled by the Center for Global Justice and the Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies (NEN) names Brazil as one of the world's most brutal countries with a system of "extermination and oppression" p
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Sherali Safarovich Norbekov, a former soldier, was...
Sherali Safarovich Norbekov, a former soldier, was sentenced to death by the military board of Tajikistan's Supreme Court after being convicted of several crimes including theft, robbery and the murder of five people in March 1993
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Four people were sentenced to death in Belarus in 2002,...
Four people were sentenced to death in Belarus in 2002, but no one was executed, Belarussian Deputy Interior Minister and head of the Investigation Committee Leonid Glukhovsky said at a joint seminar of the Belarus National Assembly and the Parliamentary
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
Four people were sentenced to death in Belarus in 2002,...
Four people were sentenced to death in Belarus in 2002, but no one was executed, Belarussian Deputy Interior Minister and head of the Investigation Committee Leonid Glukhovsky said at a joint seminar of the Belarus National Assembly and the Parliamentary
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court sentenced to death Zhang Liangwu for murder
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A 22-year-old Navajo man convicted of stabbing to death...
A 22-year-old Navajo man convicted of stabbing to death a woman and her granddaughter has become the only Native American in the country who's facing execution by federal authorities
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Phil Bredesen this morning granted a 4-month reprieve...
Gov. Phil Bredesen this morning granted a 4-month reprieve in the execution of Phillip Workman, citing a federal criminal investigation that might be related to the case. Although Attorney General Paul Summers said he is confident that the facts of the ca
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
An Oklahoma County jury recommended death for James...
An Oklahoma County jury recommended death for James Pavatt, 49, for the Nov
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The Arizona Supreme Court has overturned the death...
The Arizona Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Kajornsak Prasertphong saying ha must be resentenced by a jury, not a judge because of a change in Arizona law
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Dhaher bin Nahar Al-Chemmari, a Saudi national accused...
Dhaher bin Nahar Al-Chemmari, a Saudi national accused of smuggling an unknown quantity of hashish into the country, was beheaded by sword in the eastern Saudi province of Hafr Al-Baten
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2003YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Yemen court sentenced Ali al-Jarallah's, a Muslim...
A Yemen court sentenced Ali al-Jarallah's, a Muslim extremist, to death