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 19, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa appointed a commission...
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa appointed a commission to review the constitution and advise on whether to abolish the death penalty
- APRIL 19, 2003United KingdomDEATH 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
- APRIL 19, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations...
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations envoy to look into accusations of human rights abuses on the island following the most severe crackdown in decades on opponents of President Fidel Castro
- APRIL 19, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations...
Cuba said it would not allow a visit by a United Nations envoy to look into accusations of human rights abuses on the island following the most severe crackdown in decades on opponents of President Fidel Castro
- APRIL 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the...
A division bench of Lahore High Court accepted the appeals of two convicts Omar Hayat and Muhammad Iqbal and turned their death sentences into life term imprisonment
- APRIL 17, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
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- APRIL 17, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the local court in the Mekong...
It was reported that the local court in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang had sentenced to death Phan Thanh Hung, 24, for raping and killing a woman and stealing her jewellery
- APRIL 17, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment...
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment criticizing a dissident crackdown by Cuba, but instead approved a milder resolution calling for a UN rights monitor to visit the island
- APRIL 17, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Armenian parliament passed the third reading of...
The Armenian parliament passed the third reading of the new criminal code, which abolishes capital punishment and replaces it with life imprisonment
- APRIL 17, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution...
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution condemning Belarus for subjecting opposition members to arbitrary detention, disappearances and executions
- APRIL 17, 2003BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution...
The UN Human Rights Commission adopted a resolution condemning Belarus for subjecting opposition members to arbitrary detention, disappearances and executions
- APRIL 17, 2003SamoaDEATH PENALTY
Ieu Pasi Leleimalefaga, 19, was sentenced to death...
Ieu Pasi Leleimalefaga, 19, was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of Toesulu Solomona, a five-year-old girl
- APRIL 17, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment...
The UN Human Rights commission rejected an amendment criticizing a dissident crackdown by Cuba, but instead approved a milder resolution calling for a UN rights monitor to visit the island
- APRIL 17, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
- APRIL 17, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row,...
Leroy Orange, exonerated from Illinois' death row, intervened at the UN Commission on Human Rights on behalf of the Transational Radical Party
- APRIL 17, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The website of the Iranian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami...
The website of the Iranian daily Jomhuri-ye Eslami reported that verdicts issued against five persons condemned to death for rape and murder had been implemented at Tehran's Qasr Prison
- APRIL 17, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Melanie Sammons Anderson, 39, who was sentenced to...
Melanie Sammons Anderson, 39, who was sentenced to death in 1996 now has a life sentence after a judge ruled that she was mentally retarded
- APRIL 17, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
The state of Oklahoma executed Larry Kenneth Jackson, 40
- APRIL 17, 2003DEATH PENALTY
LEROY ORANGE SPEAKS AT THE UN AND CALLS FOR A GLOBAL MORATORIUM
April 17th 2003: Leroy Orange is a former death row inmate from Illinois who was exonerated last January by Governor George Ryan. Now Leroy Orange is now a testimonial of Hands Off Cain the international campaign for a UN moratorium on executions.
- APRIL 16, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court of Appeal in Bujumbura, Burundi,...
The Criminal Court of Appeal in Bujumbura, Burundi, condemned to death the assassin of the former Burundi chief of general staff under the First Republic, Maj-Gen Thomas Ndabemeye
- APRIL 16, 2003OregonDEATH PENALTY
Christian Longo has been sentenced to death for the...
Christian Longo has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, MaryJane, and 3 young children
- APRIL 16, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its first ever condemnation of North Korea, expressing "deep concern" at "systematic" rights abuses in the reclusive Communist state
- APRIL 16, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were...
Three people in northeast China 's Jilin Province were given their final ruling on their death sentences and were executed on the same day
- APRIL 16, 2003North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission issued its first ever condemnation of North Korea, expressing "deep concern" at "systematic" rights abuses in the reclusive Communist state
- APRIL 16, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammed Nawaz, a former employee of Pakistan's Interior...
Mohammed Nawaz, a former employee of Pakistan's Interior Ministry, was sentenced to death for killing seven members of his family because he was angered by his daughter's decision to marry a Christian
- APRIL 16, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
A briefing organised by Hands Off Cain for a moratorium...
A briefing organised by Hands Off Cain for a moratorium on capital executions took place at the UN buildings in Geneva
- APRIL 16, 2003DEATH PENALTY
A briefing organised by Hands Off Cain for a moratorium...
A briefing organised by Hands Off Cain for a moratorium on capital executions took place at the UN buildings in Geneva
- APRIL 16, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
In Hayward, a prosecutor spared the life of Ruben Eliceo...
In Hayward, a prosecutor spared the life of Ruben Eliceo Vasquez, 27, saying he will not retry him for the 1998 shooting of Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy John Paul Monego
- APRIL 16, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Gansu Province,...
The Lanzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Gansu Province, China, sentenced to death Li Yuanjie, 21, Peng Gang, 22, Yao Wenkun, 23, Wu Guohua, 21, and sentenced Wang Ming, 20, to death with a reprieve
- APRIL 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Willie Mack Moddon, who has lived on death row for...
Willie Mack Moddon, who has lived on death row for nearly 2 decades and narrowly escaped his death date last June, pleaded guilty to 5 additional crimes