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
- JULY 30, 2004EgyptDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed that Egypt's top military state security...
It was revealed that Egypt's top military state security court commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty imposed in his absence on Islamist leader Hamed Abbes
- JULY 30, 2004Trinidad & TobagoDEATH PENALTY
President Maxwell Richards granted a pardon to convicted...
President Maxwell Richards granted a pardon to convicted murderer, Boodram Bedassie, 64, who had spent more than 17 and a half years on death row for a murder he committed in 1972
- JULY 30, 2004LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara said that a...
Lebanese Justice Minister Bahij Tabbara said that a proposal submitted by seven deputies to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment with hard labor would mean the creation of a completely new category of punishment in Lebanese law
- JULY 29, 2004UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
Oybek Ruzmetov, born in 1965, and Uyghun Ruzmetov,...
Oybek Ruzmetov, born in 1965, and Uyghun Ruzmetov, born in 1970 "had been secretly sentenced to death in the Tashkent Prosecutor's Office under the Wahhabi banner and had been interrogated without defence lawyers"
- JULY 29, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
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In Denver, the 10th U
- JULY 29, 2004PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Alan Lee Pursell has now been taken off death row
Alan Lee Pursell has now been taken off death row
- JULY 29, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl...
An Iranian man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl was hanged publicly in a square in the southern city of Kerman, the conservative Jomhuri Islami newspaper reported
- JULY 28, 2004SpainDEATH PENALTY
Spain's government would continue providing consular...
Spain's government would continue providing consular assistance to Eva Maria Monfort, a Spaniard whose Moroccan husband, Bouchain Maghder, faced the death penalty for his role in the May 2003 terrorist bombings in Casablanca
- JULY 28, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
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Kingston, Jamaica: Prime Minister P
- JULY 28, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the moratorium on the death penalty...
It was reported that the moratorium on the death penalty that had been in act in Kazakhstan since the beginning of 2004 had not caused an increase in crime in the country
- JULY 28, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
A Brevard jury for the 3rd time in 10 years has recommended...
A Brevard jury for the 3rd time in 10 years has recommended Johnny Hoskins be executed for raping, kidnapping and fatally beating his 80-year-old neighbor
- JULY 28, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Jurors decided Anthony Quinn Francois, 36, should be...
Jurors decided Anthony Quinn Francois, 36, should be put to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend's younger sisters
- JULY 28, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
A Japanese court upheld death sentences against two...
A Japanese court upheld death sentences against two Aum Supreme Truth cult members for spreading deadly Sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995, killing 12 people
- JULY 28, 2004United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The United Arab Emirates enacted its first counter-terrorism...
The United Arab Emirates enacted its first counter-terrorism law, imposing strict sentences for offenders including the death penalty
- JULY 28, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
one hundred and fifty men and women participating
one hundred and fifty men and women participating
- JULY 28, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
the death sentence of Mohammad Reza Heidari was issued by
the death sentence of Mohammad Reza Heidari was issued by
- JULY 27, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty...
The introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in Kazakhstan had not helped resolve all problems facing prison inmates with death penalty sentences, said Ivar Vikki, head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's center in Almaty
- JULY 27, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgaria rejected a Libyan proposal for a deal to save...
Bulgaria rejected a Libyan proposal for a deal to save five Bulgarian nurses convicted of deliberately infecting children with AIDS from a firing squad and insisted that they were innocent
- JULY 27, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Bulgaria rejected a Libyan proposal for a deal to save...
Bulgaria rejected a Libyan proposal for a deal to save five Bulgarian nurses convicted of deliberately infecting children with AIDS from a firing squad and insisted that they were innocent
- JULY 27, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Dileswar Barik was sentenced to death by a Sessions...
Dileswar Barik was sentenced to death by a Sessions court in Sundergarh, India, for killing six people in 2003
- JULY 27, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
A Harris County jury rejected Calvin Letroy Hunter's...
A Harris County jury rejected Calvin Letroy Hunter's claim of mental retardation and decided he should be put to death for robbing and shooting of Jong Suk Choi, 30, at his store on Oct
- JULY 27, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Four Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were...
Four Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in a prison in the northern city of Qazvin, the conservative Jomhuri Islami newspaper reported
- JULY 27, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Court revoked a death sentence against...
Iran's Supreme Court revoked a death sentence against Afsaneh Norouzi, a woman who killed an intelligence officer she says tried to rape her, her lawyer said
- JULY 27, 2004ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The Italian government accepted a motion to withhold...
The Italian government accepted a motion to withhold co-operation with the Iraqi authorities in cases in which the death penalty may be applied, even for former dictator Saddam Hussein
- JULY 26, 2004Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, sentenced...
A Chinese court in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, sentenced Hong Kong businessman Chu Kam-wing, 49, to death with a two year suspension
- JULY 26, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Dang Ngoc Viet, a homeless man, was executed by firing...
Dang Ngoc Viet, a homeless man, was executed by firing squad in Vietnam for killing a motorcycle taxi driver and stealing his bike and money
- JULY 26, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance...
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance in a Singapore court as his lawyer appealed against a mandatory death sentence handed to him for trafficking in heroin
- JULY 26, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance...
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance in a Singapore court as his lawyer appealed against a mandatory death sentence handed to him for trafficking in heroin
- JULY 26, 2004CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
By a unanimous vote, the California Supreme Court upheld...
By a unanimous vote, the California Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of Larry Douglas Lucas but tossed out his death sentence, finding that if the jurors had known about the constant beatings and abuse he had endured as a child, they might not h
- JULY 26, 2004ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld Shad Armstrong's...
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld Shad Armstrong's conviction in the February 1998 killings of his sister, Farrah, and Frank Williams