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 9, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico filed a complaint against the United States...
Mexico filed a complaint against the United States in the International Court of Justice charging that American officials have violated the rights of all 54 Mexicans on death row in the United States and asking that their executions be commuted
- JANUARY 9, 2003MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico filed a complaint against the United States...
Mexico filed a complaint against the United States in the International Court of Justice charging that American officials have violated the rights of all 54 Mexicans on death row in the United States and asking that their executions be commuted
- JANUARY 9, 2003DEATH PENALTY
ITALIAN PREMIERE OF DEATH PENALTY FILM LA GOCCIA
January 9, 2003: ´La Goccia´ starring famed Italian actor Remo Girone and directed by rookie Marco Lanzafame premiered today in Bagheria, Sicily. The film is dedicated to Hands Off Cain
- JANUARY 8, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saud bin Jebran bin Qalet al-Shahrani, convicted of...
Saud bin Jebran bin Qalet al-Shahrani, convicted of murdering his wife and mother-in-law was beheaded by sword in the southwestern province of Assir
- JANUARY 8, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
An Indian sessions court in Tuticorin sentenced three...
An Indian sessions court in Tuticorin sentenced three brothers to death for hacking to death five of their relatives after a quarrel in 2001
- JANUARY 8, 2003ItalyDEATH PENALTY
La Goccia starring famed Italian actor Remo Girone...
La Goccia starring famed Italian actor Remo Girone and directed by rookie Marco Lanzafame premiered in Bagheria, Sicily
- JANUARY 8, 2003SpainDEATH PENALTY
The executive committee of the Spanish Federation of...
The executive committee of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (Federación Española de Entidades Religiosas Islámicas - FEERI) formally requested Saudi Arabia to abolish death-by-stoning
- JANUARY 8, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
The executive committee of the Spanish Federation of...
The executive committee of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (Federación Española de Entidades Religiosas Islámicas - FEERI) formally requested Saudi Arabia to abolish death-by-stoning
- JANUARY 8, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld a death...
An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City upheld a death sentence for Nguyen Thanh Long, 52, convicted last year of raping two girls
- JANUARY 8, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese court condemned Pham Van Thuan to death...
A Vietnamese court condemned Pham Van Thuan to death for trafficking 8 kilograms of heroin from neighbouring Laos into Vietnam, said a court official in Nam Dinh province, 100 kilometres south of Hanoi
- JANUARY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National...
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights Saidamir Zuhurov said in an interview with Asia-Plus that work was under way aimed at reducing the application of capital punishment in Tajikistan, but was quoted as saying that
- JANUARY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Deputy Prime Minister Saidamir Zuhurov told reporters...
Deputy Prime Minister Saidamir Zuhurov told reporters that a public opinion poll on the attitude of citizens towards the possibility of declaring a moratorium on or abolishing capital punishment had been conducted in Tajikistan in 2002
- JANUARY 8, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The first deputy chairman of the Tajik Supreme Court,...
The first deputy chairman of the Tajik Supreme Court, Mahmadali Vatanov declared that the number of death sentences passed in the country in 2002 had decreased compared with previous years
- JANUARY 8, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Assi Dehlavi was hanged in the south-western city of Ahwaz
Assi Dehlavi was hanged in the south-western city of Ahwaz
- JANUARY 8, 2003ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
The Report of the Connecticut Commission on the Death...
The Report of the Connecticut Commission on the Death Penalty was submitted to the Connecticut General Assembly
- JANUARY 8, 2003ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
Following the 6 July 2001 law barring the death penalty...
Following the 6 July 2001 law barring the death penalty for those with mental retardation, a death penalty Commission was set up to see if there was inequality in the system with regards to race and economic background of defendants
- JANUARY 7, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian police recommended to prosecutors that Amrozi...
Indonesian police recommended to prosecutors that Amrozi be tried under Article 6 of Indonesia's anti-terrorism decree, which carries various punishments, including the death penalty
- JANUARY 7, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A former aide to the late Congolese President Laurent-Desire...
A former aide to the late Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, Colonel Eddy Kapend, was sentenced to death for killing the president
- JANUARY 7, 2003MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Blacks who kill whites are significantly more likely...
Blacks who kill whites are significantly more likely to face the death penalty in Maryland than are blacks who kill blacks or white killers, according to a state-sponsored study
- JANUARY 7, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
According to a public opinion poll conducted by "Komkon-2...
According to a public opinion poll conducted by "Komkon-2 Eurasia", 57,6% of persons polled support the preservation of the death penalty, 40,8% want its abolishment, 1,6 % had no opinion on the matter
- JANUARY 7, 2003Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called on Democratic Republic...
Amnesty International called on Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to commute the death sentences passed on 26 people for their alleged role in the assassination of President Laurent Kabila in January 2001
- JANUARY 7, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
State run newspapers reported that a young mother and...
State run newspapers reported that a young mother and her 16 year-year-old son would be hanged on charges of killing a man with "sleeping pills
- JANUARY 7, 2003United StatesDEATH PENALTY
According National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,...
According National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, 224 death sentences have been imposed on juveniles since 1976 but only 21 have been carried out
- JANUARY 7, 2003DEATH PENALTY
CONGO SENTENCES 26 TO DEATH FOR KABILA MURDER
January 7, 2003: a former aide to the late Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, Colonel Eddy Kapend, and twenty-five other defendants have been sentenced to death for killing the president. Another 45 were set free by a military court in Kinshasa on
- JANUARY 6, 2003EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
The Ethiopian High Court sentenced to death five people...
The Ethiopian High Court sentenced to death five people found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1977-78 "Red Terror" period of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam
- JANUARY 6, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for...
China is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the greatest number of recorded executions: 17,500 between 1990 and 1999
- JANUARY 6, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
Qatar's appeal court postponed judgement on a death...
Qatar's appeal court postponed judgement on a death sentence handed down against a Jordanian journalist for spying, but lawyers expressed optimism that it would be quashed
- JANUARY 6, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Former Chief Justice of India B N Kirpal favours stringent...
Former Chief Justice of India B N Kirpal favours stringent punishments like life sentences for rapists but is against the death sentence for them
- JANUARY 6, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
In accordance with the country's new criminal code...
In accordance with the country's new criminal code it was planned to introduce a moratorium on capital punishment in Kazakhstan as of January 2003
- JANUARY 6, 2003QatarDEATH PENALTY
Qatar's appeal court postponed judgement on a death...
Qatar's appeal court postponed judgement on a death sentence handed down against a Jordanian journalist for spying, but lawyers expressed optimism that it would be quashed