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
- MAY 16, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Minh Cong, 31, convicted of trafficking 1
Tran Minh Cong, 31, convicted of trafficking 1
- MAY 16, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Chu Van Hoc, 33, was executed by firing squad in Hanoi
Chu Van Hoc, 33, was executed by firing squad in Hanoi
- MAY 16, 2003GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
The Economist reported that according to an American...
The Economist reported that according to an American report of January 2003, Guatemalan police "stole twice the quantity of drugs that they officially seized and
- MAY 16, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Sheldon Ward, 23, was sentenced to death for the kidnap-rape-slaying...
Sheldon Ward, 23, was sentenced to death for the kidnap-rape-slaying of Nyanuer "Mary" Pal on Valentine's Day 2002
- MAY 16, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Newton Carlton Slawson, convicted of killing 4 members...
Newton Carlton Slawson, convicted of killing 4 members of a family and a fetus, was executed by injection after a 13-hour delay while his mental competency was questioned
- MAY 16, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Two men on death row in Vietnam had their sentences...
Two men on death row in Vietnam had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment by Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong
- MAY 15, 2003EgyptDEATH PENALTY
Six men from the same family were sentenced to hang...
Six men from the same family were sentenced to hang for staging a vendetta ambush in 2002 that killed 22 people from another clan in southern Egypt
- MAY 15, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
An independent expert body that monitors how countries...
An independent expert body that monitors how countries implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights found violations in five countries
- MAY 15, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
An independent expert body that monitors how countries...
An independent expert body that monitors how countries implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights found violations in five countries
- MAY 15, 2003DEATH PENALTY
An independent expert body that monitors how countries...
An independent expert body that monitors how countries implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights found violations in five countries
- MAY 15, 2003NevadaDEATH PENALTY
In Carson City, a bill that would have abolished capital...
In Carson City, a bill that would have abolished capital punishment for killers under age 18 died in a Senate committee
- MAY 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
The Senate approved legislation that would reduce the...
The Senate approved legislation that would reduce the size of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles and require the panel to meet when considering death-penalty cases
- MAY 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Bruce Charles Jacobs was executed tonight
Bruce Charles Jacobs was executed tonight
- MAY 15, 2003DEATH PENALTY
HOC SAYS CHINA IS PLYING DEATH ON DEATH IN SARS EPIDEMIC
May 15, 2003: Hands Off Cain lambasted the decision by the Chinese authorities to apply the death penalty to anyone breaking quarantine rules and intentionally spreading the SARS virus.
- MAY 14, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A special court in Bangladesh sentenced to death 16...
A special court in Bangladesh sentenced to death 16 people for a grisly double murder in 2000 in which the victims' bodies were hacked to pieces
- MAY 14, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zu Feng, Sun Liang and Sun Liansheng were sentenced...
Zu Feng, Sun Liang and Sun Liansheng were sentenced to death by the first Intermediate People's Court of Beijing for cheating 160 million yuan
- MAY 14, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Yusuf Ali, 40, was sentenced to death in absentia by...
Yusuf Ali, 40, was sentenced to death in absentia by the Additional District and Sessions Court for his involvement in the murder of former MP Rabiul Awal Khan Kiron on April 28, 1986
- MAY 14, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China said it would execute or award a sentence of...
China said it would execute or award a sentence of up to life imprisonment for anyone violating quarantine and intentionally spreading SARS
- MAY 14, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Shah Ali Kazol and Morshed Rashidul Hasan Titu were...
Shah Ali Kazol and Morshed Rashidul Hasan Titu were sentenced to death after being convicted of killing a college student
- MAY 14, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Iraqi villagers discovered a mass...
It was reported that Iraqi villagers discovered a mass grave containing the remains of several thousand people apparently put to death by Saddam Hussein's regime
- MAY 14, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In Fort Pierce, jurors recommended the death sentence...
In Fort Pierce, jurors recommended the death sentence for Daniel Perez, 25, convicted last week of killing Susan Martin, 52, on August 28, 2001 during a robbery attempt
- MAY 14, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
The minimum age at which committing murder could be...
The minimum age at which committing murder could be punished by death would rise to 17 from the current 16, under a change in state law endorsed by the Missouri Senate
- MAY 14, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
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- MAY 14, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Derrick Dewayne Charles, 20, who confessed to strangling...
Derrick Dewayne Charles, 20, who confessed to strangling his teenage girlfriend, raping and strangling her mother and beating her grandfather to death was sentenced to death
- MAY 13, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van Toai, a 64-year-old Vietnamese man from...
Nguyen Van Toai, a 64-year-old Vietnamese man from Nghe An province near the Lao border was sentenced to death by firing squad after being convicted of opium trafficking
- MAY 13, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man named as Farizulla was sentenced to death by...
A man named as Farizulla was sentenced to death by District and Sessions Court for killing his wife in 1998
- MAY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Hussein Turkzadeh, alias Hossein Balouch, was executed...
Hussein Turkzadeh, alias Hossein Balouch, was executed in Kerman for murdering nine people, including his 16-year-old wife, and drug trafficking, a few years after escaping while serving a 25-year jail sentence for drug offences
- MAY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Eight people were hanged in the northwest city of Mashhad...
Eight people were hanged in the northwest city of Mashhad for offences ranging from rape and murder to kidnapping women and homosexuality
- MAY 13, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two fellow Iranians...
An Iranian man convicted of murdering two fellow Iranians with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as well as three counts of rape, was beheaded with a sword in the south-eastern province of Sistan Baluchestan bordering Pakistan
- MAY 13, 2003DEATH PENALTY
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