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
- MARCH 20, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The EU External Relations Council expressed serious...
The EU External Relations Council expressed serious concern over China's lack of respect for human rights, particularly the death penalty and torture, arbitrary detention, repression of all kinds (freedom of expression, religion and association) and actio
- MARCH 20, 2003DEATH PENALTY
At the UN Commission on Human Rights convening in Geneva...
At the UN Commission on Human Rights convening in Geneva Bulgaria expressed its firm conviction that the abolition of the death penalty represented a milestone in the progressive evolution of universal human rights standards
- MARCH 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The EU External Relations Council expresses serious...
The EU External Relations Council expresses serious worries at Iran's violations of human rights, particularly the lack of respect for freedom of expression, attacks against the Press, the imprisonment of journalists, intellectuals and students, applicati
- MARCH 20, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The EU External Relations Council expresses serious...
The EU External Relations Council expresses serious worries at Iran's violations of human rights, particularly the lack of respect for freedom of expression, attacks against the Press, the imprisonment of journalists, intellectuals and students, applicati
- MARCH 19, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China executed three men for killing taxi drivers in...
China executed three men for killing taxi drivers in and around the nation's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported
- MARCH 19, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Two convicted armed robbers were publicly hanged in...
Two convicted armed robbers were publicly hanged in the western city of Khorramabad, the Persian daily Kayhan reported
- MARCH 19, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Five people were sentenced to death in two separate...
Five people were sentenced to death in two separate murder cases by fast-track tribunals in Dhaka under the Woman and Child Repression Prevention Act
- MARCH 19, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
A pregnant woman found guilty of murder was saved from...
A pregnant woman found guilty of murder was saved from the hangman's noose by her unborn baby
- MARCH 19, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
A York jury sentenced Noel Montalvo, 36, to death for...
A York jury sentenced Noel Montalvo, 36, to death for the April 19, 1998 killings of Miriam Asencio, 44, and Manuel Ramirez Santana , 37
- MARCH 19, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Cibinong District Court sentenced two men to death...
The Cibinong District Court sentenced two men to death for murdering a man and then mutilating his body to conceal their crime on 20 June 2002
- MARCH 18, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Houston, a jury in state District Judge Jeannine...
In Houston, a jury in state District Judge Jeannine Barr's court, handed down a death sentence to Timothy Adams, , 34, who admittedly killed his 19-month-old son, Timothy Jr
- MARCH 18, 2003Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 18, 2003MarylandDEATH PENALTY
The Maryland Senate rejected by a single vote, 24-23,...
The Maryland Senate rejected by a single vote, 24-23, a bill that would have reinstated a two-year moratorium on the death penalty
- MARCH 18, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In Tampa, Hillsborough County Circuit Judge J
In Tampa, Hillsborough County Circuit Judge J
- MARCH 18, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 18, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Walanzo Deon Robinson was executed
Walanzo Deon Robinson was executed
- MARCH 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union said it would raise its concerns...
The European Union said it would raise its concerns over China's human rights record, including its frequent use of the death penalty, at this month's annual gathering of the UN Human Rights Commission
- MARCH 18, 2003DEATH PENALTY
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- MARCH 18, 2003Governo Federale degli Stati UnitiDEATH PENALTY
A decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure...
A decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas caused him to rape and kill a female soldier was executed by injection at a federal prison
- MARCH 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union said it would raise its concerns...
The European Union said it would raise its concerns over China's human rights record, including its frequent use of the death penalty, at this month's annual gathering of the UN Human Rights Commission
- MARCH 18, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
That a Vietnamese man who raped and murdered a 48-year-old...
That a Vietnamese man who raped and murdered a 48-year-old woman was sentenced to death, Agence France-Presse reported
- MARCH 18, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Ten thousand Muslim fundamentalists marched in protest...
Ten thousand Muslim fundamentalists marched in protest through the northern Nigerian city of Kano to urge authorities to apply strict Islamic law, including stonings and other punishments
- MARCH 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An anti-terrorist court sentenced to death three child...
An anti-terrorist court sentenced to death three child kidnappers
- MARCH 18, 2003QatarDEATH PENALTY
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar...
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar pardoned a Jordanian journalist who had been convicted of spying and sentenced to death, according to the official Qatari official news agency
- MARCH 18, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar...
Marking a visit from Jordan's king, the leader of Qatar pardoned a Jordanian journalist who had been convicted of spying and sentenced to death, according to the official Qatari official news agency
- MARCH 18, 2003DEATH PENALTY
US EXECUTES GULF WAR VETERAN IN THIRD FEDERAL EXECUTION
March 18, 2003: a decorated Gulf War veteran who claimed his exposure to Iraqi nerve gas caused him to rape and kill a female soldier was executed by injection Tuesday at a federal prison. Louis Jones Jr., 53, died by injection at the US Penitentiary nea
- MARCH 17, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Thai Senate voted to introduce fatal injections...
The Thai Senate voted to introduce fatal injections for executions and to abolish the death penalty and life sentences for 14 to 18-year-olds
- MARCH 17, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors demanded a court in the East Java capital...
Prosecutors demanded a court in the East Java capital of Surabaya to dismiss a second appeal by two convicts who were sentenced to death for the murder of a military officer
- MARCH 17, 2003YemenDEATH PENALTY
According to "Yemen Times", a number of human rights...
According to "Yemen Times", a number of human rights organisations and international anti-violence organizations expressed their resentment over the case of Laila Aesha, a Yemeni woman who was sentenced to death stoning in public after being found guilty
- MARCH 15, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Dissident Iranian professor Hashem Aghajari, under...
Dissident Iranian professor Hashem Aghajari, under sentence of death for blasphemy, rejected a court order for his mental health to be examined by doctors, his wife said