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 8, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Fajian was sentenced to death for his part in stabbing...
Li Fajian was sentenced to death for his part in stabbing a British woman
- AUGUST 7, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The following is an edited text of Australian Prime...
The following is an edited text of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's response to the guilty verdict against Bali bomber Amrozi: "Good evening
- AUGUST 7, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australia will not make any approach to Indonesia to...
Australia will not make any approach to Indonesia to overturn the decision to impose the death penalty on Bali bomber Amrozi, Prime Minister John Howard said
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of...
India's Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of Ram Pal, a man convicted of murdering 21 people including women and children, to life imprisonment as the murders he committed 17 years ago appeared to have been an act of extreme provocation
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
"Don't treat terrorists like common criminals who can...
"Don't treat terrorists like common criminals who can follow legal procedures such as appeal
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Australia will not make any approach to Indonesia to...
Australia will not make any approach to Indonesia to overturn the decision to impose the death penalty on Bali bomber Amrozi, Prime Minister John Howard said
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The following is an edited text of Australian Prime...
The following is an edited text of Australian Prime Minister John Howard's response to the guilty verdict against Bali bomber Amrozi: "Good evening
- AUGUST 7, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A court in the central Punjab city of Bahawalnagar,...
A court in the central Punjab city of Bahawalnagar, Pakistan, sentenced to death Bashir Ahmed, a man who claimed to be a Muslim prophet, after convicting him of blasphemy
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The families of British Bali bombing victims will ask...
The families of British Bali bombing victims will ask for Amrozi bin Nurhasyim's death sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment amid fears execution will turn him into a martyr
- AUGUST 7, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The families of British Bali bombing victims will ask...
The families of British Bali bombing victims will ask for Amrozi bin Nurhasyim's death sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment amid fears execution will turn him into a martyr
- AUGUST 7, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Tommy Jerry Fortenberry died in silence in the death...
Tommy Jerry Fortenberry died in silence in the death chamber at Holman prison for the murders almost 19 years ago of 4 people shot down during a robbery
- AUGUST 7, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The first Bali bombings suspect, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim,...
The first Bali bombings suspect, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, a 40-year-old mechanic who bought chemicals and a van used in the bombing, was found guilty of planning and helping to execute the bombings and was sentenced to death for his role in the attacks by a
- AUGUST 7, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
"The new execution law will be effective from October...
"The new execution law will be effective from October 19, requiring lethal injection to replace the firing squad," Thai correction Department officials told AFP
- AUGUST 7, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The desire by families of Bali victims to see convicted...
The desire by families of Bali victims to see convicted bomber Amrozi suffer a painful death was a legitimate response from those who had lost loved ones, spiritual adviser to condemned men, Sister Helen Prejean, said
- AUGUST 7, 2003KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
The HOC delegation formed by Bruno Mellano, Antonio...
The HOC delegation formed by Bruno Mellano, Antonio Stango and Rosanna Degiovanni completed its official meetings in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan
- AUGUST 6, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A sterile man who killed a family of four after learning...
A sterile man who killed a family of four after learning that the eldest son had slept with his wife, who wanted to conceive, was been sentenced to death
- AUGUST 6, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Roy Richard Elirama and Vincent Joseph Kessy, who had...
Roy Richard Elirama and Vincent Joseph Kessy, who had been sentenced to death on four counts of robbery with violence, escaped the hangman's noose after the Kenyan Appeal Court ruled that the two policemen who had prosecuted their case were unqualified
- AUGUST 6, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
As part of a Hands Off Cain delegation Marco Cappato,...
As part of a Hands Off Cain delegation Marco Cappato, Lista Bonino MEP, was in Senegal gathering consensus for a UN moratorium on capital executions
- AUGUST 6, 2003SenegalDEATH PENALTY
As part of a Hands Off Cain delegation Marco Cappato,...
As part of a Hands Off Cain delegation Marco Cappato, Lista Bonino MEP, was in Senegal gathering consensus for a UN moratorium on capital executions
- AUGUST 6, 2003South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Pieter Mulder, leader of Freedom Front (FF), a small...
Pieter Mulder, leader of Freedom Front (FF), a small South African right wing political party, said in a statement that his party would propose a motion calling for a referendum on whether the death penalty should be reinstated
- AUGUST 6, 2003MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
Moroccan Justice Minister Mohamed Bouzoubaâ declared...
Moroccan Justice Minister Mohamed Bouzoubaâ declared himself in favour of the abolition of the death penalty in the country
- AUGUST 5, 2003IllinoisDEATH PENALTY
In Toulon, Stark County judge Scott Shore sentenced...
In Toulon, Stark County judge Scott Shore sentenced Curtis Thompson, 61, to death for the March 2002 murders of Stark County deputy Adam Streicher, and James and Janet Giesenhagen
- AUGUST 5, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Former Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines...
Former Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Oscar Cruz called for the abolition of the death penalty in the country saying that only God had the right to take away one's life
- AUGUST 5, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court said...
The shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court said it had imposed the death penalty on Huang Shanbin for kidnapping a 10-year-old boy
- AUGUST 5, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Indian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence...
The Indian Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to four men convicted of killing 15 people at a wedding party in a village in Punjab's Amritsar district in 1991 to avenge their humiliation at the hands of the bridegroom's father
- AUGUST 5, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Hands Off Cain delegation completed its mission...
The Hands Off Cain delegation completed its mission to Uzbekistan, the second leg of the tour of Central Asian republics, in order to gain consensus for a UN moratorium resolution on capital executions
- AUGUST 5, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Hands Off Cain delegation completed its mission...
The Hands Off Cain delegation completed its mission to Uzbekistan, the second leg of the tour of Central Asian republics, in order to gain consensus for a UN moratorium resolution on capital executions
- AUGUST 5, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Hakimjon Otaboyev, from northern Tajikistan, was sentenced...
Hakimjon Otaboyev, from northern Tajikistan, was sentenced to death by the Soghd regional criminal court
- AUGUST 5, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
U.S. District Judge James S
U.S. District Judge James S
- AUGUST 4, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari, gave assurances that the National Assembly would support the abrogation of capital punishment from the nation's laws