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
- JANUARY 25, 2003DEATH PENALTY
A federal judge has overturned the death sentence of...
A federal judge has overturned the death sentence of a man convicted of killing 2 girls in their elementary school classroom and wounding two teachers 14 years ago in Greenwood
- JANUARY 25, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Three people were sentenced to death for murder in...
Three people were sentenced to death for murder in southern Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City and neighbouring Can Tho province
- JANUARY 24, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A Pima County Jury voted the death penalty for John...
A Pima County Jury voted the death penalty for John Michael Harper
- JANUARY 24, 2003MissouriDEATH PENALTY
23-year-old Travis Glass was sentenced in Columbia
23-year-old Travis Glass was sentenced in Columbia
- JANUARY 24, 2003FloridaDEATH PENALTY
After 16 years on death row, Rudolph Holton stepped...
After 16 years on death row, Rudolph Holton stepped out from a prison's razor wire fences
- JANUARY 24, 2003UtahDEATH PENALTY
Judge Leslie Lewis threw out the death sentence of...
Judge Leslie Lewis threw out the death sentence of Elroy Tillman, 67, because his defence was denied access to key evidence involving a trial witness who received immunity
- JANUARY 24, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Hands Off Cain noted that the date for the appeal of...
Hands Off Cain noted that the date for the appeal of Amina Lawal's case has been set for March 25
- JANUARY 24, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence of Fred Berre Douglas, 74, was overturned...
The death sentence of Fred Berre Douglas, 74, was overturned by a federal appeals court
- JANUARY 24, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Third District Judge Leslie Lewis vacated the death...
Third District Judge Leslie Lewis vacated the death sentence of Elroy Tillman, ruling that the defense for Utah's oldest and longest-serving death-row inmate was denied access to important evidence during his 1983 murder trial
- JANUARY 24, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
John Gummer, UK Conservative MP, met county sheriffs,...
John Gummer, UK Conservative MP, met county sheriffs, district attorneys and parole board members in Austin, Texas, to plea for the life of British born Jackie Elliott, on death row following a 1987 conviction for raping and murdering a woman
- JANUARY 24, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Indian Deputy Prime Minister L
Indian Deputy Prime Minister L
- JANUARY 24, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Miyazaki District Court in southern Japan sentenced...
The Miyazaki District Court in southern Japan sentenced to death Yasutoshi Matsuda, 34
- JANUARY 24, 2003FranceDEATH PENALTY
Indian Deputy Prime Minister L
Indian Deputy Prime Minister L
- JANUARY 24, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
John Gummer, UK Conservative MP, met county sheriffs,...
John Gummer, UK Conservative MP, met county sheriffs, district attorneys and parole board members in Austin, Texas, to plea for the life of British born Jackie Elliott, on death row following a 1987 conviction for raping and murdering a woman
- JANUARY 24, 2003PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
House Committee on Foreign Relations chairman Apolinario...
House Committee on Foreign Relations chairman Apolinario Lozada Jr
- JANUARY 24, 2003BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
A Botswana appeals court reserved judgement on death...
A Botswana appeals court reserved judgement on death row inmate, Lehlohonolo Kobedi's case
- JANUARY 24, 2003DEATH PENALTY
HOC URGES UN MORATORIUM AS AMINA´S STONING APPEAL IS SET FOR MARCH
January 24, 2003: Hands Off Cain noted that the date for the appeal of Amina Lawal’s case has been set for March 25. The case caused a huge international outcry last year, but HOC says that many more stonings and executions occur worldwide that do not att
- JANUARY 23, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
Morgan County Circuit Judge Glenn Thompson rejected...
Morgan County Circuit Judge Glenn Thompson rejected a jury's recommended penalty of life in prison without parole and sentenced Daniel Wade Moore, 28, to death for the March 12, 1999 murder of 39-year-old Karen Tipton
- JANUARY 23, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian High Court at Owerri condemned to death...
A Nigerian High Court at Owerri condemned to death by hanging seven men standing trial before it in connection with the beheading of an 11 year-old boy, Ikechukwu Okonkwo, at the Otokoto Hotel near Owerri in 1996
- JANUARY 23, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Iraq's Revolution Command Council [RCC] issued a decree...
Iraq's Revolution Command Council [RCC] issued a decree stipulating that any person who commits theft as stated in Penal Code No 11 of 1969, using weapons in wartime, shall be executed
- JANUARY 23, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Hedayat Mostowfi, a member of the National Council...
Hedayat Mostowfi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran's Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the EU's open attitude to Iran only encouraged the human rights violations
- JANUARY 23, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The North Carolina Supreme Court stayed the execution...
The North Carolina Supreme Court stayed the execution of convicted killer Henry Lee Hunt on Wednesday, less than 36 hours before the Lumbee Indian was scheduled to die
- JANUARY 23, 2003DEATH PENALTY
Hedayat Mostowfi, a member of the National Council...
Hedayat Mostowfi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran's Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the EU's open attitude to Iran only encouraged the human rights violations
- JANUARY 23, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liao Shaohui and Liao Shaowu, brothers from Guangdong...
Liao Shaohui and Liao Shaowu, brothers from Guangdong Province, were sentenced to death, deprived of political rights and had their property confiscated by the Second Intermediary People's Court of Beijing for falsely issuing value added tax invoices wort
- JANUARY 23, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian Islamic court ruled that Amina Lawal, the...
A Nigerian Islamic court ruled that Amina Lawal, the Nigerian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for bearing a child out of wedlock, will begin her latest appeal on March 25
- JANUARY 23, 2003Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
A Papua New Guinean court has sentenced a man to death...
A Papua New Guinean court has sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of two teenage boys - the fifth person to face the death penalty in the South Pacific nation in the past 12 years
- JANUARY 23, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Grand Khadi Aminu Ibrahim Katsina, the chief judge...
Grand Khadi Aminu Ibrahim Katsina, the chief judge presiding over the case of Amina Lawal, a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, said of fornication that ''The best deterrent is the death sentence, for people to see what happens to a fornica
- JANUARY 22, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Bangladeshi man was sentenced to hang for burning...
A Bangladeshi man was sentenced to hang for burning a woman with acid, in the second death penalty handed down for the crime this month
- JANUARY 22, 2003MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Eight months after Maryland's governor declared a moratorium...
Eight months after Maryland's governor declared a moratorium on executions, a judge agreed to sign a death warrant, allowing the first capital case to move forward under new Gov
- JANUARY 22, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, Robert Lookingbill, 37, was executed
In Huntsville, Robert Lookingbill, 37, was executed