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
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
in September 2004, Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan disclosed...
in September 2004, Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan disclosed...
- AUGUST 31, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Masumi Hayashi, given the death sentence for murdering...
Masumi Hayashi, given the death sentence for murdering four people with poisoned curry in 1998 in Wakayama, said she decided to end her silence in court because she had never expected to face such a sentence
- AUGUST 31, 2004RwandaDEATH PENALTY
Rwanda would not waive the death penalty, the country's...
Rwanda would not waive the death penalty, the country's representative to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) for Rwanda said
- AUGUST 31, 2004Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
"I am embarrassed for Papua New Guinea," Prime Minister...
"I am embarrassed for Papua New Guinea," Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare said regarding the culture of sexual violence against women and children in the country
- AUGUST 31, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Rwanda would not waive the death penalty, the country's...
Rwanda would not waive the death penalty, the country's representative to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) for Rwanda said
- AUGUST 31, 2004ConnecticutDEATH PENALTY
A Hartford jury today concluded that 24-year-old Eduardo...
A Hartford jury today concluded that 24-year-old Eduardo Santiago should get the death penalty in a murder-for-hire case
- AUGUST 31, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Bangladesh sentenced to death Mohammad Aziz,...
A court in Bangladesh sentenced to death Mohammad Aziz, 30, for rape and murder
- AUGUST 31, 2004PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
In Harrisburg, a jury deliberated for 2 hours today...
In Harrisburg, a jury deliberated for 2 hours today before sentencing Ernest R
- AUGUST 31, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The former deputy manager of the state-run International...
The former deputy manager of the state-run International Trade and Development Corp, Qiao Benping, was executed in China's northe-astern province of Jilin for embezzling 14
- AUGUST 30, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
The state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing...
The state Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Herman Henry "Bud" Von Dohlen
- AUGUST 30, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Palestine, an Anderson County jury sentenced Beunka...
In Palestine, an Anderson County jury sentenced Beunka Adams to death Sunday afternoon for the capital murder of 37-year-old Kenneth Vandever
- AUGUST 30, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court Bangladesh sentenced 10 people to death for...
A court Bangladesh sentenced 10 people to death for shooting dead five politicians at a 1999 political rally, which has been scarred by years of political violence
- AUGUST 29, 2004Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
The alleged plotters of a coup in Equatorial Guinea...
The alleged plotters of a coup in Equatorial Guinea are "blood-thirsty pirates" who deserve the firing squad, the country's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said in an interview
- AUGUST 29, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
The alleged plotters of a coup in Equatorial Guinea...
The alleged plotters of a coup in Equatorial Guinea are "blood-thirsty pirates" who deserve the firing squad, the country's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said in an interview
- AUGUST 29, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The high court, Indore bench, India, converted the...
The high court, Indore bench, India, converted the death sentence awarded to Ganesh of Gauri Nagar into life imprisonment
- AUGUST 29, 2004SyriaDEATH PENALTY
The Higher State Security Court in Damascus, Syria,...
The Higher State Security Court in Damascus, Syria, sentenced a group Kurdish detainees to several years in prison and sentenced to death a detainee charged with affiliation to the banned "Muslim Brotherhood" group in Syria
- AUGUST 29, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Gagan Kanojia and Rajinder Kumar, two men convicted...
Gagan Kanojia and Rajinder Kumar, two men convicted of murdering eight-year-old Heena and her six-year-old brother Abhishek in June, 2000, were sentenced to death by Jalandhar District and Sessions Court, India
- AUGUST 29, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Five people, including a Noida police sub-inspector,...
Five people, including a Noida police sub-inspector, were sentenced to death by a court in Faridabad, India, for their involvement in a case in which four people were murdered in December 1999
- AUGUST 29, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced six people...
A court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced six people to death for the murder of a Buddhist monk, Gyan Jyoti Mohasthobir
- AUGUST 29, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a man was executed in Rajaii Shahr Prison in Karaj
a man was executed in Rajaii Shahr Prison in Karaj
- AUGUST 28, 2004DEATH PENALTY
In San Francisco, ruling 4-3, the California Supreme...
In San Francisco, ruling 4-3, the California Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of James Heard, 50, a child killer, ruling that the trial judge improperly conducted jury selection
- AUGUST 28, 2004YemenDEATH PENALTY
Yemeni was sentenced to death and 14 others to jail...
Yemeni was sentenced to death and 14 others to jail over the 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg and for other attacks
- AUGUST 27, 2004MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Johor Baru, Malaysia sentenced former...
The High Court in Johor Baru, Malaysia sentenced former security guard Mohd Abbas Danus Baksan, 47, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering 10-year-old Nurul Huda Gani on Jan
- AUGUST 27, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court rejected a plea for a retrial...
The Tokyo High Court rejected a plea for a retrial by Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer who had been on death row for 36 years for the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture, upholding a lower court decision to reject the request
- AUGUST 27, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
In their closing argument at the Hiroshima District...
In their closing argument at the Hiroshima District Court, Japan, prosecutors pushed for the death penalty for Kiyotaka Oyama, 43, saying he ''planned how to spend insurance money even before the death of his stepfather, which is disgustingly inhumane
- AUGUST 27, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Du Phuoc Hung, 21, was sentenced to death by firing...
Du Phuoc Hung, 21, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Vietnam for murder and the destruction of private property following a failed love affair
- AUGUST 27, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A fast track court in India's Bharuch district town...
A fast track court in India's Bharuch district town of south Gujarat sentenced to death Devi Singh Vasava for hacking a man to death
- AUGUST 27, 2004TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
The supreme court of Taiwan upheld a death sentence...
The supreme court of Taiwan upheld a death sentence handed to Wang Chung-hsiung, a boat captain, for the drowning of six mainland Chinese women
- AUGUST 27, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife has...
An Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife has been hanged in public in a square in the central city of Arak, Hamvatan Salam paper newspaper reported
- AUGUST 26, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Zhang Kunpeng, Xu Lei and Hu Guofeng, were executed...
Zhang Kunpeng, Xu Lei and Hu Guofeng, were executed in China on order of the Shanghai Higher People's Court