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
- DECEMBER 11, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
William Irvan, 37, was sentenced to death for raping...
William Irvan, 37, was sentenced to death for raping and killing Michele Shadbolt, a 23-year-old mother, in her home Feb
- DECEMBER 11, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Four people were given death sentences, suspended for...
Four people were given death sentences, suspended for two years, and 30 others were jailed for up to life in a case involving a huge amount of illegal caffeine, state media reported
- DECEMBER 11, 2003CambodiaDEATH PENALTY
Tran The Trung, 49, a Cambodian citizen of Vietnamese...
Tran The Trung, 49, a Cambodian citizen of Vietnamese origin, was executed by firing squad at dawn at the Thu Duc execution ground in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for drug trafficking
- DECEMBER 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran The Trung, 49, a Cambodian citizen of Vietnamese...
Tran The Trung, 49, a Cambodian citizen of Vietnamese origin, and Quach Kim Thuan, 41, were executed by firing squad at dawn at the Thu Duc execution ground in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for drug trafficking
- DECEMBER 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Pham Van Khoe, 54, and Nguyen Thanh Quy, 22, were executed...
Pham Van Khoe, 54, and Nguyen Thanh Quy, 22, were executed by firing squad at dawn at the Thu Duc execution ground in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City for murder
- DECEMBER 11, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vu Quang Hiep, 28, was sentenced to death by a court...
Vu Quang Hiep, 28, was sentenced to death by a court in Hanoi for shooting dead a rival gangster on behalf of a friend trying to reclaim a debt
- DECEMBER 11, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Low Soo Song, a 51 year old unemployed man, was sentenced...
Low Soo Song, a 51 year old unemployed man, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for discharging a shot from a firearm while committing robbery
- DECEMBER 11, 2003DEATH PENALTY
3 prisoners were to have been executed this week in Texas
3 prisoners were to have been executed this week in Texas
- DECEMBER 10, 2003DominicaDEATH PENALTY
So far this year, nearly 200 people had died at the...
So far this year, nearly 200 people had died at the hands of the Dominican police in extra-judicial executions, the National Human Rights Commission said
- DECEMBER 10, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saddam Hussein will be tried in absentia by the Iraqi...
Saddam Hussein will be tried in absentia by the Iraqi war crimes tribunal formally established in Baghdad, and could face the death penalty if found guilty of crimes against humanity, the Iraqi Governing Council said
- DECEMBER 10, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man in southern China's Guangxi province was sentenced...
A man in southern China's Guangxi province was sentenced to death for killing two people and injuring 10 others in a spate of rat-poisoning incidents
- DECEMBER 10, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
A Philippine court sentenced six men to death for kidnapping...
A Philippine court sentenced six men to death for kidnapping two ethnic Chinese sisters and their driver, just five days after President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ended a moratorium on capital punishment
- DECEMBER 10, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranian prisoners convicted of murder were hanged...
Three Iranian prisoners convicted of murder were hanged in a jail in Tehran, one of whom killed and dissected his brother and niece, the Entekhab daily reported
- DECEMBER 10, 2003LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the...
Lebanon's pardoning commission refused to commute the death penalty for 31 convicts, who risk being hanged if President Emile Lahoud does not excuse them
- DECEMBER 10, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ignoring appeals from human rights groups, Vietnam...
Ignoring appeals from human rights groups, Vietnam sentenced at least 100 people to death up to December 8 and the country's get-tough-on-crime policy showed no signs of letting up
- DECEMBER 10, 2003TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
Local human rights advocates in Taiwan called on the...
Local human rights advocates in Taiwan called on the government to abolish capital punishment as the world marked Human Rights Day
- DECEMBER 9, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
In a press statement, Davao Archbishop and President...
In a press statement, Davao Archbishop and President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines President Fernando R
- DECEMBER 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Speedy Trial Court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced...
The Speedy Trial Court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced five people to death, including four Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, and nine others to life imprisonment for the abduction and murder Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Nurul Islam
- DECEMBER 9, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Today in Delaware County when the District Attorney's...
Today in Delaware County when the District Attorney's office announced that it is dropping charges against Yarris for the 1981 rape and murder of Linda Mae Craig
- DECEMBER 9, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ngo Minh, 33, and Cao Ton, 45, were sentenced to death...
Ngo Minh, 33, and Cao Ton, 45, were sentenced to death in Vietnam after being found guilty by a court in the central province of Khanh Hoa of trafficking more than 32
- DECEMBER 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Li Daxiao, former director of the Civil Affairs Bureau...
Li Daxiao, former director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xiajin County, in east China's Shandong Province, was sentenced to death with a reprieve for murder
- DECEMBER 9, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
A Bangladeshi gay couple seeking to stay in Australia...
A Bangladeshi gay couple seeking to stay in Australia because they fear death at home won a landmark appeal in the High Court and a refugee tribunal was told to re-evalutate their claim
- DECEMBER 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Bangladeshi gay couple seeking to stay in Australia...
A Bangladeshi gay couple seeking to stay in Australia because they fear death at home won a landmark appeal in the High Court and a refugee tribunal was told to re-evalutate their claim
- DECEMBER 9, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A man in central China was found guilty of murdering...
A man in central China was found guilty of murdering 17 boys and sentenced to death
- DECEMBER 9, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court overturned the death sentence...
The Tokyo High Court overturned the death sentence against Kenji Chiba, a 56-year-old man, and sentenced him to life imprisonment
- DECEMBER 9, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The District Additional Sessions Court in Kozhikode,...
The District Additional Sessions Court in Kozhikode, India, sentenced to death Balan Nair, a 53-year-old man, after finding him guilty of murdering three of his neighbours at Moorad in January 2001
- DECEMBER 9, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Saddam Hussein's government may have executed 61,000...
Saddam Hussein's government may have executed 61,000 Baghdad residents, a number significantly higher than previously believed, according to a survey obtained by Associated Press
- DECEMBER 9, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld the verdict...
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld the verdict of the High Court of January 28, confirming the death sentence passed on Ershad Sikder for the murder of student leader Khaled on May 16, 1999
- DECEMBER 9, 2003DEATH PENALTY
112TH US DEATH ROW INMATE FOUND INNOCENT
December 9, 2003: Nicholas Yarris became the 112th US death row inmate Tuesday to be found innocent of the crime he was condemned to death for over 20 years ago. He is also the tenth person to be released from death row nationwide this year.
- DECEMBER 8, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Britain's Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of...
Britain's Court of Appeal upheld the conviction of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain when she was sent to the gallows in 1955 for murdering her estranged lover