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 15, 2003IdahoDEATH PENALTY
George Junior Porter will be re-sentenced for 1st-degree...
George Junior Porter will be re-sentenced for 1st-degree murder in the 1988 beating death of Theresa Jones
- APRIL 15, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Kenneth Wayne Morris won a reprieve from a federal...
Kenneth Wayne Morris won a reprieve from a federal appeals court that spared him from a trip to the Texas death chamber about two hours before he could have been executed today for the fatal shooting of a Houston man
- APRIL 15, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for...
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for "acts of mass killing" and "'liquidation' or 'extrajudicial executions'" against Palestinians
- APRIL 15, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for...
The UN Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for "acts of mass killing" and "'liquidation' or 'extrajudicial executions'" against Palestinians
- APRIL 15, 2003GreeceDEATH PENALTY
Has been launched in Greece, holders of the EU Presidency,...
Has been launched in Greece, holders of the EU Presidency, the campaign "Stop the Death Penalty Through Internet"
- APRIL 15, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
Has been launched in Greece, holders of the EU Presidency,...
Has been launched in Greece, holders of the EU Presidency, the campaign "Stop the Death Penalty Through Internet"
- APRIL 14, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
In Long Beach, Superior Court jury unanimously recommended...
In Long Beach, Superior Court jury unanimously recommended the death penalty for Ramon Sandoval Jr
- APRIL 14, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Orange County Superior Court Judge John Ryan followed...
Orange County Superior Court Judge John Ryan followed a jury's recommendation last month that Dung Trinh be sentenced to death
- APRIL 14, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The People's Court in Ba Ria Vung Tau sentenced to...
The People's Court in Ba Ria Vung Tau sentenced to death Pham Van Dzung, found guilty of trading and possessing a total of 33
- APRIL 14, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union condemned the repressive crackdown...
The European Union condemned the repressive crackdown by Cuban authorities
- APRIL 14, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The European Union condemned the repressive crackdown...
The European Union condemned the repressive crackdown by Cuban authorities
- APRIL 14, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorism court convicted four members of an...
An anti-terrorism court convicted four members of an outlawed Islamic militant group of orchestrating a truck bombing outside the U
- APRIL 13, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Salem Hussein Hasan al-Salami, an Iraqi convicted of...
Salem Hussein Hasan al-Salami, an Iraqi convicted of smuggling hashish, was publicly beheaded by sword in the northern Saudi city of Arar
- APRIL 13, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Salem Hussein Hasan al-Salami, an Iraqi convicted of...
Salem Hussein Hasan al-Salami, an Iraqi convicted of smuggling hashish, was publicly beheaded by sword in the northern Saudi city of Arar
- APRIL 12, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that...
Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that the execution of three hijackers in Cuba on April 11 proves that Fidel Castro "is a tyrant" and "has been one for many years
- APRIL 12, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Wei Licheng, 39, a serial rapist convicted of attacks...
Wei Licheng, 39, a serial rapist convicted of attacks on 15 women and four children and 20 robberies was sentenced to death by a Beijing court
- APRIL 12, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Uganda Human Rights Commission said it was satisfied...
The Uganda Human Rights Commission said it was satisfied with the execution of three soldiers in Kitgum
- APRIL 11, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
A Collier County circuit court jury recommended execution...
A Collier County circuit court jury recommended execution for John Ballard, 34, convicted of capital murder in the March 1999 beating deaths of Jennifer Jones and Willie Ray "Bubba" Patin Jr
- APRIL 11, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Clinton Young, 19, was sentenced to death by a jury...
Clinton Young, 19, was sentenced to death by a jury in Midland County for the 2001 murder of Doyle Douglas, 54, and the kidnapping and murder of Samuel Petrey, 54
- APRIL 11, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In Key West, Michael Tanzi, 25, was sentenced to death...
In Key West, Michael Tanzi, 25, was sentenced to death for the April 25, 2000, kidnapping and murder of Janet Acosta, 49
- APRIL 11, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
A 3-judge panel of the 10th U
A 3-judge panel of the 10th U
- APRIL 11, 2003CzechiaDEATH PENALTY
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of...
According to a CVVM agency poll almost two-thirds of Czechs believe that the Czech Republic should reinstate the death penalty and one-third believe that all murderers should receive it
- APRIL 11, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch warned that Russian soldiers were...
Human Rights Watch warned that Russian soldiers were carrying out human rights abuses in Chechnya despite a controversial referendum in March that Moscow said would bring peace to breakaway republic
- APRIL 11, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
International human rights organisations welcomed Kazakh...
International human rights organisations welcomed Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's initiatives aimed at making criminal law more humane and introducing life imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty
- APRIL 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking...
Pham Van Dung, 42, was sentenced to death for trafficking opium and heroin under Vietnam's tough anti-drug laws
- APRIL 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed more people than any other country in...
China executed more people than any other country in 2002, two-thirds of the known world total of 1,500, and many of those cases violated international law, the human rights group Amnesty International said
- APRIL 11, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be...
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court ordered a man to be hanged to death for multiple sectarian murders, court officials said
- APRIL 11, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla...
Lorenzo Enrique Copello Castillo, Barbaro Leodan Sevilla GarcIa and Jorge Luis Martinez Isaac, three men convicted of terrorism for hijacking of a passenger ferry in Cuba were executed
- APRIL 10, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
A Lehigh County jury sentenced 21-year-old Ramon Sanchez...
A Lehigh County jury sentenced 21-year-old Ramon Sanchez to death on March 13, and Lehigh County Judge William E
- APRIL 10, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
A convicted murderer who confessed to his crimes will...
A convicted murderer who confessed to his crimes will get a new trial after the California Supreme Court decided that Omar Dent III was improperly prevented from defending himself