Archive timeline
2004
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2004, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2004
- OCTOBER 7, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations started its...
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations started its annual human rights meeting in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, focusing mainly on the issue of capital punishment
- OCTOBER 7, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Delhi, India, sentenced a 59-year-old man...
A court in Delhi, India, sentenced a 59-year-old man to death and his two young sons to life imprisonment in a triple murder case at Saket in South Delhi in 1998
- OCTOBER 7, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
There were no defined lines when it came to sentencing...
There were no defined lines when it came to sentencing a person to capital punishment or life imprisonment, and the decision was largely up to the judge to make, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) said, adding that it could not say for certai
- OCTOBER 6, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced two people to death and another...
A Chinese court sentenced two people to death and another to life in jail after they were convicted of smuggling the pelts of nearly 1,400 endangered animals into Tibet
- OCTOBER 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian woman was sentenced to death for murdering...
An Iranian woman was sentenced to death for murdering and chopping up her drug addict husband who allegedly tried to rape her daughter
- OCTOBER 6, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
"It's now time for Indonesia to abolish the death penalty
"It's now time for Indonesia to abolish the death penalty
- OCTOBER 6, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the Russian State...
Konstantin Kosachev, the head of the Russian State Duma Committee for Foreign Affairs, said that the Russian delegation didn't intend to raise the question of introduction of the death penalty for terrorists at the current regular "We've discussed the iss
- OCTOBER 6, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Peter J
Peter J
- OCTOBER 6, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, India, confirmed...
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, India, confirmed the death sentence by the Kollam Sessions Court awarded to Rama Subramanian alias Mani for murdering his employer- a widow and her three children
- OCTOBER 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Four prisoners were hanged in Tonekabon (northern Iran)...
Four prisoners were hanged in Tonekabon (northern Iran) National Council of Resistance of Iran reported
- OCTOBER 6, 2004United NationsDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed in a report submitted by the Kenyan...
It was revealed in a report submitted by the Kenyan government to the United Nation's Human Rights Committee that there are 1,900 prisoners on death row in the country, 200 of which had exhausted their attempts to have the sentence commuted to life
- OCTOBER 6, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed in a report submitted by the Kenyan...
It was revealed in a report submitted by the Kenyan government to the United Nation's Human Rights Committee that there are 1,900 prisoners on death row in the country, 200 of which had exhausted their attempts to have the sentence commuted to life
- OCTOBER 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of two young men
the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of two young men
- OCTOBER 6, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's female soccer fans will be forced to
Iran's female soccer fans will be forced to
- OCTOBER 5, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
The Jamaican government brought to Parliament an amendment...
The Jamaican government brought to Parliament an amendment to the Offences against the Person Act to give judges greater sentencing discretion in capital murder convictions after July's ruling by the Privy Council that the death penalty was not mandatory
- OCTOBER 5, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
A seminar analysing the investigations of the International...
A seminar analysing the investigations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the conflict in northern Uganda, heard that LRA rebel leader, Joseph Kony and his allies would never be given a death sentence
- OCTOBER 5, 2004JordanDEATH PENALTY
The Court of Cassation in Jordan has commuted the death...
The Court of Cassation in Jordan has commuted the death sentence passed against Raed Hijazi, a convicted Al Qaeda terrorist, to 20 years imprisonment, judicial sources said
- OCTOBER 5, 2004Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The top military court in Democratic Republic of Congo...
The top military court in Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced former military prosecutor Colonel Alamba Mungako and 10 other people to death in a murder trial
- OCTOBER 5, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Four Iranian men convicted of belonging to an organised...
Four Iranian men convicted of belonging to an organised crime gang were hanged in the northern province of Mazandaran
- OCTOBER 5, 2004BelarusDEATH PENALTY
There were no people sentenced to death in Belarus,...
There were no people sentenced to death in Belarus, chief of the Belarussian Interior Ministry's department of corrections Vladimir Kovchur told reporters
- OCTOBER 5, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Saudi man was executed by the sword in the town of...
A Saudi man was executed by the sword in the town of Abha in the southern province of Assir after he was convicted of murdering a compatriot, the interior ministry announced
- OCTOBER 5, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
The execution of Edward Green III was carried out shortly...
The execution of Edward Green III was carried out shortly after 8 p
- OCTOBER 5, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
In San Antonio, prosecutors dropped murder charges...
In San Antonio, prosecutors dropped murder charges against Ernest Willis
- OCTOBER 5, 2004CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Pasadena Superior Court Judge Michelle R
Pasadena Superior Court Judge Michelle R
- OCTOBER 5, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Islamic court in Nigeria sentenced a women to death...
Islamic court in Nigeria sentenced a women to death by stoning for having sex out of wedlock, authorities said
- OCTOBER 4, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe's newly elected Secretary General...
The Council of Europe's newly elected Secretary General Terry Davis described as "outrageous" the case of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on charges of deliberate HIV infection of several hundred Libyan children
- OCTOBER 4, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
The Council of Europe's newly elected Secretary General...
The Council of Europe's newly elected Secretary General Terry Davis described as "outrageous" the case of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya on charges of deliberate HIV infection of several hundred Libyan children
- OCTOBER 4, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for raping...
A Vietnamese man was sentenced to death for raping and killing a woman in her home
- OCTOBER 4, 2004BelarusDEATH PENALTY
The human rights organization Amnesty International...
The human rights organization Amnesty International launched a campaign urging Uzbekistan and Belarus to end capital punishment
- OCTOBER 4, 2004UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The human rights organization Amnesty International...
The human rights organization Amnesty International launched a campaign urging Uzbekistan and Belarus to end capital punishment