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
- FEBRUARY 20, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
``We have two executioners in the prison and when the...
``We have two executioners in the prison and when the new law is in place they will stop shooting guns and will train to help doctors with injections,'' said Pittaya Sangkhanakin, chief of the Bang Kwang maximum security prison, in regards to the lower ho
- FEBRUARY 20, 2003SloveniaDEATH PENALTY
The Slovenian association for supporting Tibet staged...
The Slovenian association for supporting Tibet staged a peaceful rally in front of the Chinese embassy in Ljubljana over the recent execution of Tibetan Lobsang Dhondup
- FEBRUARY 20, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Three Hong Kong men were sentenced to death by a mainland...
Three Hong Kong men were sentenced to death by a mainland court for trafficking and selling more than 126kg of Ice
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003UtahDEATH PENALTY
The Utah Legislature has unanimously approved a bill...
The Utah Legislature has unanimously approved a bill that would bring Utah's death penalty law in line with a recent U
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Women confront death with "nerves of steel" while men...
Women confront death with "nerves of steel" while men often collapse with fear, Saudi Arabia's most senior executioner was reported as saying
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
A division bench of Sindh High Court converted the...
A division bench of Sindh High Court converted the death sentence awarded to a man know as Azam to life imprisonment
- FEBRUARY 19, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The lower house voted 288-60 to change Thailand's long-standing...
The lower house voted 288-60 to change Thailand's long-standing execution method to lethal injections, arguing they are less painful and cruel than shooting prisoners with a machine gun
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The American Bar Association proposed new standards...
The American Bar Association proposed new standards for defence lawyers in death penalty cases, after criticism by Supreme Court justices and legal scholars about the poor representation afforded many accused of being killers
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A state commission recommended nearly two dozen changes...
A state commission recommended nearly two dozen changes in Arizona's death penalty system, including banning the execution of convicted killers under age 18
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Close to 100 convicted killers cannot now be executed...
Close to 100 convicted killers cannot now be executed in Trinidad and Tobago, because they either have petitions pending before international human rights organizations or the five-year limit set by the London-based Privy Council for them to be kept on de
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003DEATH PENALTY
People who purposely murder a child 11 or younger would...
People who purposely murder a child 11 or younger would face the death penalty under 2 bills that a Senate panel overwhelmingly recommended
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
In Columbia, the House Judiciary Committee approved...
In Columbia, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill banning executions of the mentally retarded
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The state Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing...
The state Supreme Court has ordered a new sentencing hearing for Jeffery Haselden, who was sentenced to die for killing his 2-year-old son, Joshua
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International commended Kenya's new government...
Amnesty International commended Kenya's new government for taking positive steps on human rights, but urged the team set up by President Mwai Kibaki to probe abuses committed in the past
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people charged with trafficking and selling drugs...
Six people charged with trafficking and selling drugs were sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Zhanjiang, in south China's Guangdong Province, in the case's first trial
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of three...
The Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of three gang rape convicts into ten years imprisonment each
- FEBRUARY 18, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Hashem Aghajari's lawyer rejected charges of blasphemy...
Hashem Aghajari's lawyer rejected charges of blasphemy against his client after the Iranian Judiciary announced that the veteran intellectual, whose death sentence was quashed on February 14, may face the same punishment during a new trial
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Zambia sentenced Gibson Zimba, a...
The High Court in Zambia sentenced Gibson Zimba, a former aide of ex-president Frederick Chiluba, to death by hanging for the murder of three teachers
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Houston, a man convicted for killing his girlfriend...
In Houston, a man convicted for killing his girlfriend was sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Politicians in Mexico's most populous state vowed to...
Politicians in Mexico's most populous state vowed to push ahead with a plan to institute the death penalty despite questionable public support and strong opposition from human rights groups, the president and the Roman Catholic Church
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Warders and their bosses at Papua New Guinea's Bomana...
Warders and their bosses at Papua New Guinea's Bomana prison don't want to be the ones to hang a convicted killer
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
An appeals court lifted the death penalty but upheld...
An appeals court lifted the death penalty but upheld a 14-year prison term for two political activists convicted of killing four Americans and a Pakistani six years ago
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
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- FEBRUARY 17, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Khofifah Indar Parawansa, chairwoman of Indonesia's...
Khofifah Indar Parawansa, chairwoman of Indonesia's largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama, expressed support for the death penalty as a maximum punishment for crimes that had wide implications such as narcotics abuse, rape and corruption
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Khasan Saidov, 19, was sentenced to death by the Dushanbe...
Khasan Saidov, 19, was sentenced to death by the Dushanbe city court in Takikistan
- FEBRUARY 17, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, whose death sentence...
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, whose death sentence for blasphemy was quashed on February 14, will be retried by the same court which ordered his execution and could face the same penalty, a judiciary spokesman said
- FEBRUARY 16, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
A 21-year-old unnamed individual, a native of Dhaya,...
A 21-year-old unnamed individual, a native of Dhaya, was sentenced in absentia to capital punishment by the Sidi Bel Abbes criminal court after being charged with belonging to and setting up a terrorist group, premeditated murder, laying an ambush and the
- FEBRUARY 16, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that Indonesia...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that Indonesia would have Australia's blessing if it imposed the death penalty on anyone convicted of the Bali bombings
- FEBRUARY 16, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that Indonesia...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said that Indonesia would have Australia's blessing if it imposed the death penalty on anyone convicted of the Bali bombings
- FEBRUARY 16, 2003SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Five Singaporeans are languishing on death row in Myanmar...
Five Singaporeans are languishing on death row in Myanmar for trying to smuggle 11 kg of heroin out of the country