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 5, 2003IsraelDEATH PENALTY
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh blasted the Israeli...
Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh blasted the Israeli army's "extrajudiciary executions" of Palestinians, saying Israel's method of fighting terrorism was "entirely reprehensible"
- MARCH 5, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court upheld on appeal a seven-year sentence...
An Iranian court upheld on appeal a seven-year sentence against a reformist cleric, initially sentenced to death for saying women should be free to decide whether to wear a veil, judicial sources said
- MARCH 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
A State of the Region survey conducted by the Journal...
A State of the Region survey conducted by the Journal showed that 65 per cent of people in the North-East believed that the only way of claiming justice for murdered children was by implementing the death penalty
- MARCH 5, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Newcastle Law School lecturer James Sweeney argued...
Newcastle Law School lecturer James Sweeney argued that capital punishment doesn't act as a deterrent in preventing crimes
- MARCH 4, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The state Senate and its new Democratic majority will...
The state Senate and its new Democratic majority will get the chance to vote on legislation that would make broad changes to the state's death penalty laws to guard against executing an innocent person
- MARCH 4, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Bexar County jurors take just one hour to sentence...
Bexar County jurors take just one hour to sentence Santos Minjarez, 31, to death row for the rape and brutal murder of a woman, Rosa Maria Rosado, 37, in April 2001
- MARCH 4, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The state Senate killed a bill that would have prohibited...
The state Senate killed a bill that would have prohibited a judge from issuing a death sentence if the jury deadlocked during the sentencing phase of the trial
- MARCH 4, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
District Judge Virgil Black followed the February 7...
District Judge Virgil Black followed the February 7 jury's recommendation, and sentenced James Lawrence Mitchell III, 28, to death for beating to death a 3-year-old girl
- MARCH 4, 2003PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Panel Urges Halt to Executions in Pa
Panel Urges Halt to Executions in Pa
- MARCH 4, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The German Ambassador Klaus Holderbaum called for the...
The German Ambassador Klaus Holderbaum called for the abolition of the death penalty in Uganda
- MARCH 4, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that if Portugal extradited...
Amnesty International said that if Portugal extradited Indian gangster Abu Salem, who is accused of masterminding bombings in Bombay that killed nearly 300 people, it would violate the Portuguese constitution
- MARCH 4, 2003PortugalDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International said that if Portugal extradited...
Amnesty International said that if Portugal extradited Indian gangster Abu Salem, who is accused of masterminding bombings in Bombay that killed nearly 300 people, it would violate the Portuguese constitution
- MARCH 4, 2003European UnionDEATH PENALTY
MEP, Nelly Maes announced in a press statement that...
MEP, Nelly Maes announced in a press statement that she would not take part in a meeting on 5 March at the European Parliament on the theme of "Dialogue between Civilisations, Women's empowerment" because President Khatami's advisor, Kahra Shojaii, who ad
- MARCH 3, 2003VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
A judge denied a defence motion to declare Virginia...
A judge denied a defence motion to declare Virginia state's death penalty unconstitutional in the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who could face capital punishment if convicted of killing an FBI employee during a string of sniper killings in the Washington metro
- MARCH 3, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The trial of twenty five defendants in the largest...
The trial of twenty five defendants in the largest drug trafficking ring to be detected in Vietnam's northern mountainous Lai Chau province began
- MARCH 3, 2003Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Three soldiers and several former militia fighters...
Three soldiers and several former militia fighters were among 15 people charged with treason for allegedly trying to overthrow the government of this newly peaceful West African nation
- MARCH 3, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Three Uganda People's Defence Forces [UPDF] soldiers...
Three Uganda People's Defence Forces [UPDF] soldiers were executed by firing squad in Kitgum, northern Uganda, for murder
- MARCH 3, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A man named as Sumon was sentenced to death in absentia...
A man named as Sumon was sentenced to death in absentia and eight others to life term imprisonment in a double murder case
- MARCH 3, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Adnan Buyung Nasution, noted Indonesian lawyer and...
Adnan Buyung Nasution, noted Indonesian lawyer and human rights campaigner, said the death penalty for drug smugglers was acceptable on account of the bad impact their acts had on people of all ages
- MARCH 3, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Bangkok-based diplomats asked Thailand to verify the...
Bangkok-based diplomats asked Thailand to verify the number of deaths caused by the government's crackdown on narcotics, since they found the over 1,000 killings in one month alarming
- MARCH 2, 2003BurundiDEATH PENALTY
Four civilians were killed by Burundi government soldiers...
Four civilians were killed by Burundi government soldiers just outside the capital, Bujumbura, witnesses said
- MARCH 2, 2003Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga will oppose...
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga will oppose moves by the government to re-implement the death penalty in the island, The Sunday Times reported
- MARCH 2, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Golabi, a member of the Iranian Kurdish group...
Mohammad Golabi, a member of the Iranian Kurdish group Komala and of the Iranian Communist Party, was executed in the central prison of Iran's western City of Saghez
- MARCH 1, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe urges nations across the globe...
The Council of Europe urges nations across the globe to abolish the death penalty as the organization celebrates Death Penalty Abolition Day
- MARCH 1, 2003DEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe urges nations across the globe...
The Council of Europe urges nations across the globe to abolish the death penalty as the organization celebrates Death Penalty Abolition Day
- MARCH 1, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong granted amnesty...
Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong granted amnesty to five people on death row, state media said
- MARCH 1, 2003CanadaDEATH PENALTY
James Sampson, father of William Sampson, a Canadian...
James Sampson, father of William Sampson, a Canadian facing a death sentence in Saudi Arabia arrived in the kingdom to meet his son
- MARCH 1, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
James Sampson, father of William Sampson, a Canadian...
James Sampson, father of William Sampson, a Canadian facing a death sentence in Saudi Arabia arrived in the kingdom to meet his son
- MARCH 1, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Two high-ranking officials from central China's Hunan...
Two high-ranking officials from central China's Hunan Province were sentenced to death with a two-year suspension after being convicted of corruption and bribery
- MARCH 1, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yunnan Provincial Higher People's Court announced...
The Yunnan Provincial Higher People's Court announced that lethal injection would be used in carrying out the death penalty throughout the province