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
- AUGUST 25, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Hafizur Rahman, a 36 year old Bangladeshi man convicted...
Hafizur Rahman, a 36 year old Bangladeshi man convicted of killing his wife and two sons, was condemned to death for the triple-murder
- AUGUST 25, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
Jamal Darwish Fatayri, an Iraqi-born Jordanian linked...
Jamal Darwish Fatayri, an Iraqi-born Jordanian linked to Palestinian militant Abu Nidal, was hanged at dawn at Swaqa prison south of Amman, Jordan
- AUGUST 24, 2003TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the...
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the opinion of 24 jurors in 2 separate trials that Ricky Thompson, convicted in the 1989 shooting death of his 21-year-old wife, Nina Vann Thompson, should die in the state's death chamber
- AUGUST 24, 2003South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The savage rape and murder of three generations of...
The savage rape and murder of three generations of a family during a carjacking in which a baby was executed in front of her mother has led to widespread calls for the return of the death penalty in South Africa, the Sunday Telegraph reported
- AUGUST 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
A man who was convicted of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter...
A man who was convicted of raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter was sentenced to death
- AUGUST 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A District and Sessions court in Bangladesh sentenced...
A District and Sessions court in Bangladesh sentenced to death Ali Hossain, 22 and his younger brother Babu, for murder
- AUGUST 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh sentenced nine people to death,...
A court in Bangladesh sentenced nine people to death, including three brothers, after convicting them of killing a 42-year-old man
- AUGUST 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged 10 drug smugglers and armed robbers in...
Iran hanged 10 drug smugglers and armed robbers in the southern province of Kerman, the conservative Jam-e Jam newspaper reported
- AUGUST 22, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
William Quentin Jones, 34, was executed today
William Quentin Jones, 34, was executed today
- AUGUST 22, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mashari bin Omair al-Shahrani, a Saudi national, was...
Mashari bin Omair al-Shahrani, a Saudi national, was beheaded for stabbing his father to death inside a mosque
- AUGUST 22, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung...
Duong Duc Son, Phung Mai Khoi, Chiem Van Beo, Le Tung Lam and Vu Thi Tien, a woman, were sentenced to death by the Ha Tinh People's Court for running a drug-trafficking network that smuggled heroin and opium into the country from Laos
- AUGUST 22, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
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- AUGUST 21, 2003MaliDEATH PENALTY
During a live radio program conducted in Rome on Radio...
During a live radio program conducted in Rome on Radio Radicale, Demba Traore, vice President of the Mali Justice Commission, gave assurances that Mali would vote in favour of a resolution for a moratorium on capital executions at the UN General Assembly
- AUGUST 21, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Thalassery Additional District and Sessions Court...
The Thalassery Additional District and Sessions Court awarded death sentences to five CPM activists for the murder of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Vice-president K T Jayakrishnan in 1999
- AUGUST 21, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the...
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously reinstated the death sentence given to Thomas Knight for fatally stabbing a guard in 1980
- AUGUST 21, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranian men were hanged in prison in Karaj, western...
Three Iranian men were hanged in prison in Karaj, western Tehran, for drug trafficking, a government-sponsored daily reported
- AUGUST 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two employees of the state-owned China Construction...
Two employees of the state-owned China Construction Bank were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court in Xi'an after being found guilty of embezzling 412 million yuan, the China Daily said
- AUGUST 20, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Two brothers, Sagar and Swapan, were sentenced to death...
Two brothers, Sagar and Swapan, were sentenced to death in Bangladesh, the latter in absentia, for shooting dead a man inside mosque
- AUGUST 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Shanghai court sentenced to death Huang Ligang, 22,...
A Shanghai court sentenced to death Huang Ligang, 22, and Cheng Liang, 19, after convicting them of stabbing to death Soong Yu, 40, a Taiwan businessman living in the city, the Shanghai Daily reported
- AUGUST 20, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Mohammad...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced Mohammad Attaullah and Mohammad Azam, two members of the banned Sunni Muslim extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), to death for the murder of six Shiites
- AUGUST 20, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Apparently alarmed at deteriorating law and order in...
Apparently alarmed at deteriorating law and order in Georgia, the country's president publicly expressed his regret at being forced into abolishing the death penalty
- AUGUST 20, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
"The argument for capital punishment against terrorists...
"The argument for capital punishment against terrorists fails on three counts," said The Australian daily newspaper
- AUGUST 20, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of...
Phan Ngoc Hanh, a 37 year old director and owner of the Dong Nai Company, a water bottling operation, was given the death penalty by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court
- AUGUST 19, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh Justice Minister Onalsyn Zhumabekov said the...
Kazakh Justice Minister Onalsyn Zhumabekov said the government planned to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment as of January 1, 2004
- AUGUST 19, 2003DEATH PENALTY
August 19, 2002, the Indiana Supreme Court vacated...
August 19, 2002, the Indiana Supreme Court vacated Amy Bostick's three sentences of life without parole
- AUGUST 19, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
A statement from the Kerman province judiciary said...
A statement from the Kerman province judiciary said that "Mohammad-Zaman-Q
- AUGUST 19, 2003MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
A Moroccan criminal court sentenced four Islamic activists...
A Moroccan criminal court sentenced four Islamic activists to death and dozens of others to heavy jail terms for suicide bomb attacks that killed 45 people in the city of Casablanca in May 2003
- AUGUST 19, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Masaka, Uganda, presided over by...
The High Court in Masaka, Uganda, presided over by Justice Elidad Mwangusya, sentenced Rogers Lutalemwa to death for killing his two-year-old son on July 27, 2003
- AUGUST 19, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian Islamic appeal court quashed the conviction...
A Nigerian Islamic appeal court quashed the conviction of Had Sarimu Mohammed, a 55-year-old peasant farmer who had been sentenced to be stoned to death for the rape of a nine-year-old girl
- AUGUST 19, 2003JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
"The last polls show about 82% in favour of the death...
"The last polls show about 82% in favour of the death penalty, even though there is no more evidence here than anywhere else that it acts as a deterrent," said Nancy Anderson, a defence attorney and activist with the Independent Jamaica Council for Human