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
- JUNE 11, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned...
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned his friend's wife to death in 2003 was hanged in Changi Prison in Singapore
- JUNE 11, 2004MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned...
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned his friend's wife to death in 2003 was hanged in Changi Prison in Singapore
- JUNE 11, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
A Senate debate on the Caribbean Court of Justice was...
A Senate debate on the Caribbean Court of Justice was postponed after Jamaica's main opposition party filed a court challenge seeking to block establishment of the regional appellate body, officials said
- JUNE 11, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Judges rejected the latest appeal by Kenny Richey,...
Judges rejected the latest appeal by Kenny Richey, the Scot on death row in America
- JUNE 11, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, convicted Nurunnabi,...
A court in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, convicted Nurunnabi, 30, and sentenced him to death for killing his wife for dowry in 2003
- JUNE 11, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Judges rejected the latest appeal by Kenny Richey,...
Judges rejected the latest appeal by Kenny Richey, the Scot on death row in America
- JUNE 11, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Terry Nichols avoided a death sentence - again - when...
Terry Nichols avoided a death sentence - again - when the 12 jurors at his state trial deadlocked Friday night over his punishment for the Oklahoma City bombing
- JUNE 11, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Death row inmate Alberto Valdez, 48, was deemed mentally...
Death row inmate Alberto Valdez, 48, was deemed mentally retarded by Judge Sandra Watts, and his sentence was commuted to life in prison
- JUNE 11, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the Xinxi Shibao newspaper reported that...
the Xinxi Shibao newspaper reported that...
- JUNE 11, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a woman, Monireh Ghasempour, was hanged in public in Tehran
a woman, Monireh Ghasempour, was hanged in public in Tehran
- JUNE 10, 2004ItalyDEATH PENALTY
An Italian national is risking the firing squad for...
An Italian national is risking the firing squad for drug charges in Indonesia
- JUNE 10, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Almost 70 percent of lawmakers supported a proposed...
Almost 70 percent of lawmakers supported a proposed bill to set up an ad hoc commission in the Diet to discuss capital punishment in Japan, a recent Meiji University survey showed
- JUNE 10, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Hazrat Ali Bhuti, Liton Sarder and Md Kamal were sentenced...
Hazrat Ali Bhuti, Liton Sarder and Md Kamal were sentenced to death by a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for the murder of CID inspector Nazrul Islam
- JUNE 10, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo gave a 90-day reprieve...
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo gave a 90-day reprieve to six convicted rapists who were scheduled to be executed in June, her spokesman Ignacio Bunye said
- JUNE 10, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
An Italian national is risking the firing squad for...
An Italian national is risking the firing squad for drug charges in Indonesia
- JUNE 10, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Chittagong, Bangladesh,...
A Speedy Trial Tribunal in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced five people to death and seven others to life imprisonment after convicting them of murdering Srikanta Rakkhit
- JUNE 10, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The Hanoi People's Court, Vietnam, sentenced to death...
The Hanoi People's Court, Vietnam, sentenced to death Pham Xuan Thang, 35, for stabbing a man to death following a brawl at a bar in August 2003
- JUNE 10, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
To Van Tuan, 26, was sentenced to death by a court...
To Van Tuan, 26, was sentenced to death by a court in Vietnam's southern business capital of Ho Chi Minh City for stabbing to death his ex-lover in November 2003 after she left him
- JUNE 10, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Tomoko Miyazaki, a 58-year-old woman who was sentenced...
Tomoko Miyazaki, a 58-year-old woman who was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing two young women in Toyama and Nagano prefectures in 1980, asked the Toyama District Court for a retrial in November 2003, her lawyers said
- JUNE 10, 2004TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the...
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe for a two-day conference entitled "The Death Penalty and the Right to Live
- JUNE 10, 2004ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the...
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe for a two-day conference entitled "The Death Penalty and the Right to Live
- JUNE 10, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the...
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe for a two-day conference entitled "The Death Penalty and the Right to Live
- JUNE 10, 2004BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the...
Leaders of Central Asian governments gathered in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe for a two-day conference entitled "The Death Penalty and the Right to Live
- JUNE 10, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
Charles Learmond, the member of the Jamaican parliament...
Charles Learmond, the member of the Jamaican parliament for South West Clarendon, chastised his colleagues saying they were unwilling to take a firm stand on whether the government should hold a referendum on capital punishment
- JUNE 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Yan'an Intermediate People's Court, in Shaanxi...
The Yan'an Intermediate People's Court, in Shaanxi Province, executed Li Hongwu, Li Fafu and Yang Lin for intentional homicide
- JUNE 10, 2004DEATH PENALTY
An attempt to bar the death penalty as punishment for...
An attempt to bar the death penalty as punishment for capital crimes for anyone under the age of 18 was rejected by the full House, falling 10 votes short of what it needed to pass
- JUNE 9, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The West Bengal government was preparing for the state's...
The West Bengal government was preparing for the state's first hanging in decades
- JUNE 9, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
A South African court rejected a bid by the families...
A South African court rejected a bid by the families of 70 suspected mercenaries held in Zimbabwe to force President Thabo Mbeki's government to bring the men back to South Africa
- JUNE 9, 2004South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A South African court rejected a bid by the families...
A South African court rejected a bid by the families of 70 suspected mercenaries held in Zimbabwe to force President Thabo Mbeki's government to bring the men back to South Africa
- JUNE 9, 2004Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
A South African court rejected a bid by the families...
A South African court rejected a bid by the families of 70 suspected mercenaries held in Zimbabwe to force President Thabo Mbeki's government to bring the men back to South Africa