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
- APRIL 24, 2003SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution...
Sweden was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 24, 2003FranceDEATH PENALTY
France was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution...
France was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 24, 2003RomaniaDEATH PENALTY
Romania was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Romania was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 24, 2003SloveniaDEATH PENALTY
Slovenia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death...
Slovenia was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva
- APRIL 24, 2003DEATH PENALTY
THE UN COMMISSION SAYS YES TO THE MORATORIUM AND TO THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
24 April 2003: a resolution for a moratorium on capital executions and the abolition of the death penalty has been approved, for the seventh consecutive year, at the UN Commission on Human Rights with 24 votes in favour, 10 abstentions and 18 votes again
- APRIL 23, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
In Santa Ana, jurors recommended the death penalty...
In Santa Ana, jurors recommended the death penalty for Victor Miranda-Guerrero, convicted of raping and murdering 29-year-old Bridgette Ballas, who was attacked Nov
- APRIL 23, 2003YemenDEATH PENALTY
A Yemeni court set the date of the verdict on Hammoud...
A Yemeni court set the date of the verdict on Hammoud Murshid Hassan Ahmad's appeal against a death sentence for murder for May 26 after a short court session on April 19
- APRIL 23, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court upheld the death sentence for...
The Tokyo High Court upheld the death sentence for Kazuo Shinozawa, a man convicted of burning six women to death during the robbery of a jewellery store in Utsunomiya in June 2000
- APRIL 23, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
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- APRIL 23, 2003YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdullah al-Nashri, a Yemeni man who killed three nuns...
Abdullah al-Nashri, a Yemeni man who killed three nuns from Mother Theresa's order, was executed by firing squad
- APRIL 22, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court announced...
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court announced its verdict in an ivory smuggling case, imposing the death penalty on Li Wenjian, with a two-year probation, and sentencing Liang Zhiqiang to life imprisonment
- APRIL 22, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, declared:...
Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, declared: "Obasanjo's re-election is today the best guarantee in Nigeria for the life of Amina Lawal and others who risk being sentenced to death by the political use of Sharia law as applied by the twelve north
- APRIL 22, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Outgoing President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has...
Outgoing President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has been re-elected in the first round of the presidential elections
- APRIL 22, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, declared:...
Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, declared: "Obasanjo's re-election is today the best guarantee in Nigeria for the life of Amina Lawal and others who risk being sentenced to death by the political use of Sharia law as applied by the twelve north
- APRIL 22, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Outgoing President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has...
Outgoing President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has been re-elected in the first round of the presidential elections
- APRIL 22, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Juan Rodriguez Chavez was executed inside the Huntsville...
Juan Rodriguez Chavez was executed inside the Huntsville "Walls" Unit
- APRIL 22, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The Senate rejected a bill that would have allowed...
The Senate rejected a bill that would have allowed juries to sentence a convicted murderer to life without the possibility of parole
- APRIL 22, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously overturned the...
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously overturned the death sentence of Ernest Lee Johnson, 42, convicted of killing 3 people in 1994, because his attorney did not present adequate evidence that he might be mentally retarded
- APRIL 22, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe welcomed a vote by the Armenian...
The Council of Europe welcomed a vote by the Armenian parliament to lift the death penalty for most crimes as a step in the right direction towards Armenian membership of the council
- APRIL 22, 2003Council of EuropeDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe welcomed a vote by the Armenian...
The Council of Europe welcomed a vote by the Armenian parliament to lift the death penalty for most crimes as a step in the right direction towards Armenian membership of the council
- APRIL 22, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO REELECTED
April 22, 2003: Outgoing President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo has been re-elected in the first round of the presidential elections. The fact is confirmed by the election results published by the national independent electoral commission of Abuja.
- APRIL 21, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Three men named as Sohel Dewan, Billal and Manik were...
Three men named as Sohel Dewan, Billal and Manik were sentenced to death for murdering Badsha Mia, a businessman, on 8 August 2002
- APRIL 21, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
After 6 years on death row, Wesley Quick has been acquitted...
After 6 years on death row, Wesley Quick has been acquitted of killing 2 men in his 3rd trial for the 1995 shooting deaths
- APRIL 21, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In Wagoner, District Judge Bruce Sewell accepted a...
In Wagoner, District Judge Bruce Sewell accepted a sentencing deal that will spare the life of Billy Ray Battenfield, 51, who twice was sentenced to death in the April 22, 1984, killing of Donald Cantrell
- APRIL 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for...
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug trafficking, was publicly executed in a square in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, declared the Saudi Interior Ministry
- APRIL 21, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for...
Myan Gul Jan Khan, a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug trafficking, was publicly executed in a square in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, declared the Saudi Interior Ministry
- APRIL 20, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Death row inmates in Idaho will no longer automatically...
Death row inmates in Idaho will no longer automatically face solitary confinement
- APRIL 20, 2003OregonDEATH PENALTY
In the guilt phase of the murder trial of Gregory Bowen,...
In the guilt phase of the murder trial of Gregory Bowen, the jury took 3 hours to find the defendant guilty on April 2
- APRIL 19, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug...
An unnamed 46-year-old man convicted of illegal drug production was sentenced to death in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City
- APRIL 19, 2003Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by...
The London-based Privy Council upheld an appeal by Bimal Roy Paria, a 29-year-old man in Trinidad and Tobago, who had been sentenced to death for killing his common law wife, her mother and sister on 24 July 1998