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
- JULY 9, 2003ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
A man who killed 3 children in the mistaken belief...
A man who killed 3 children in the mistaken belief that their sister set up his brother for a gang hit was executed
- JULY 9, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Robinson Githae, Assistant Minister for Justice and...
Robinson Githae, Assistant Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya, in a meeting with Hands Off Cain officials in Rome, ensured his country's commitment to the abolition of the death penalty and Kenya's support for a moratorium resolution
- JULY 9, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Robinson Githae, Assistant Minister for Justice and...
Robinson Githae, Assistant Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya, in a meeting with Hands Off Cain officials in Rome, ensured his country's commitment to the abolition of the death penalty and Kenya's support for a moratorium resolution
- JULY 9, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government was pressing Washington behind the scenes to ensure the planned trials of terrorism suspects jailed at Guantanamo Bay would not violate international law
- JULY 9, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government was pressing Washington behind the scenes to ensure the planned trials of terrorism suspects jailed at Guantanamo Bay would not violate international law
- JULY 9, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah Othman Ashur al-Tareqi, a Mali national convicted...
Abdullah Othman Ashur al-Tareqi, a Mali national convicted of murdering a compatriot in Saudi Arabia, was beheaded by sword in the capital Riyadh
- JULY 9, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
"The Bali bombers who murdered my son last October...
"The Bali bombers who murdered my son last October are evil extremists, but they don't deserve the death penalty," Brian Deegan, the Adelaide magistrate farther of one of the victims of the Bali bombing, wrote in The Australian
- JULY 9, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four people on death-row in Vietnam, including Le My...
Four people on death-row in Vietnam, including Le My Linh, an Australian citizen of Vietnamese origin, had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment
- JULY 9, 2003DEATH PENALTY
KENYA VICE JUSTICE MINISTER ENSURES SUPPORT FOR MORATORIUM CAMPAIGN
July 9, 2003: Robinson Githae, Assistant Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya, in a meeting with Hands Off Cain officials in Rome, ensured his country’s commitment to the abolition of the death penalty and Kenya’s support for a morator
- JULY 8, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Speedy Tribunal judge Sheikh Jahangir Hossain sentenced...
Speedy Tribunal judge Sheikh Jahangir Hossain sentenced Kamruzzaman Faruk to death for stabbing to death his wife Kamrun Nahar Laila in a Dhaka suburb in 2002, private Channel-I TV network reported
- JULY 8, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Robert Don Duckett, 39, received a heart-stopping...
In McAlester, Robert Don Duckett, 39, received a heart-stopping injection and was pronounced dead at 6:16 p
- JULY 8, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal...
Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced to death five men and also sentenced a man accused of abetting the murder to life in prison
- JULY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Asia Plus news agency reported that the Tajik Supreme...
Asia Plus news agency reported that the Tajik Supreme Court's Military Collegium sentenced a former presidential guard to death
- JULY 8, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's dissident daughter,...
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's dissident daughter, accompanied by Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of HOC, met with vice-premier Gianfranco Fini
- JULY 8, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's dissident daughter,...
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's dissident daughter, accompanied by Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of HOC, met with vice-premier Gianfranco Fini
- JULY 8, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Sergio D'Elia, General Secretary of Hands Off Cain,...
Sergio D'Elia, General Secretary of Hands Off Cain, countered the statement by Amnesty International Italy's President Marco Bertotto, affirming that there is not yet a large enough number of favourable UN member states to ensure the approval of a morator
- JULY 8, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International "is not opposed" to the hypothesis...
Amnesty International "is not opposed" to the hypothesis of a resolution for a death penalty moratorium at the UN General Assembly
- JULY 8, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The head of the 55-nation Organisation for Security...
The head of the 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on called on Uzbekistan to refrain from further use of the death penalty following warnings that the ex-Soviet republic has secretly executed prisoners awaiting appeal he
- JULY 8, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand...
Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan urged Uzbekistan not to execute prisoners who had appealed their convictions to a UN committee after reports of at least one such execution in the past month
- JULY 8, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The head of the 55-nation Organisation for Security...
The head of the 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on called on Uzbekistan to refrain from further use of the death penalty following warnings that the ex-Soviet republic has secretly executed prisoners awaiting appeal he
- JULY 8, 2003UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand...
Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan urged Uzbekistan not to execute prisoners who had appealed their convictions to a UN committee after reports of at least one such execution in the past month
- JULY 8, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya High Court upheld a lower court ruling sentencing...
The Nagoya High Court upheld a lower court ruling sentencing three men to death, two of whom for murdering three people to get insurance payments or money between 1994 and 1996 and the remaining one for involvement in two of the murders
- JULY 8, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three drug traffickers were sentenced to death by the...
Three drug traffickers were sentenced to death by the People's Court in Vietnam's northern province of Ha Tay as part of the government's long-running campaign to wipe out the narcotics trade, court officials said
- JULY 7, 2003Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that a growing number of Papua New...
It was reported that a growing number of Papua New Guinea officials called for the implementation of the death penalty following a wave of violence in the capital
- JULY 7, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Italian version of Hands Off Cain's 2003 Report...
The Italian version of Hands Off Cain's 2003 Report on the death penalty worldwide has presented in Rome
- JULY 7, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
"The prison department in Jharkhand has a strange problem:...
"The prison department in Jharkhand has a strange problem: The state's jail has 12 men who have been sentenced to death, but no hangman to execute these sentences," the Hindustan Times reported
- JULY 7, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Alina Fernandez Revuelta, the estranged daughter of...
Alina Fernandez Revuelta, the estranged daughter of Fidel Castro, called for stronger international condemnation of the Cuban communist regime
- JULY 7, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Justice and human rights committee chairman Senator...
Justice and human rights committee chairman Senator Francis N
- JULY 7, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A year after upholding a man's murder conviction, the...
A year after upholding a man's murder conviction, the Arizona Supreme Court has overturned his death sentence and ordered a new sentencing, this time by a jury
- JULY 7, 2003DEATH PENALTY
HANDS OFF CAIN PRESENTS THE 2003 REPORT ON THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE
July 7, 2003: Monday saw the presentation in Rome of Hands Off Cain’s 2003 Report on the death penalty worldwide. “We are a step away from the universal moratorium on the death penalty,” said Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of the anti-death penalty NGO.