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 1, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Ahsan Habib Titu was sentenced to death in absentia...
Ahsan Habib Titu was sentenced to death in absentia by a Speedy Trail Tribunal and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader at Dewanganj in Jamalpur district in 1999
- JUNE 1, 2004ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Jengchiang, alias Archong sae Chee, a 42 year old Chinese...
Jengchiang, alias Archong sae Chee, a 42 year old Chinese farmer in Chiang Rai, was sentenced to death by the Thai Criminal after being found guilty of possessing drugs with intent to sell
- JUNE 1, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
The bedrock conservative issue of the death penalty...
The bedrock conservative issue of the death penalty in Canada had been abandoned by the new Conservative party in its policy platform for the June 28, 2004 election
- JUNE 1, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Reza Foulad Amoli, head of Mazandaran's judiciary...
Mohammad Reza Foulad Amoli, head of Mazandaran's judiciary...
- MAY 31, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The incoming Netherlands presidency of the European...
The incoming Netherlands presidency of the European Union will verify Hands Off Cain's forecasts on the outcome of a moratorium resolution at the UN General Assembly and should they be confirmed, prompt a review of the EU's current policy to refrain from
- MAY 31, 2004KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Two Saudi nationals and a Kuwaiti convicted of the...
Two Saudi nationals and a Kuwaiti convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl were executed in Kuwait, and their corpses displayed in public
- MAY 31, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's Supreme Court decided to quash a death sentence...
Iran's Supreme Court decided to quash a death sentence on dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari and would announce the decision shortly, the Iranian student news agency ISNA reported
- MAY 31, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Two Saudi nationals and a Kuwaiti convicted of the...
Two Saudi nationals and a Kuwaiti convicted of the abduction, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl were executed in Kuwait, and their corpses displayed in public
- MAY 31, 2004NetherlandsDEATH PENALTY
The incoming Netherlands presidency of the European...
The incoming Netherlands presidency of the European Union will verify Hands Off Cain's forecasts on the outcome of a moratorium resolution at the UN General Assembly and should they be confirmed, prompt a review of the EU's current policy to refrain from
- MAY 31, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Canada supported Bulgaria in connection with the trial...
Canada supported Bulgaria in connection with the trial against the Bulgarian medics in Libya, Paul Dubois, Assistant Deputy Minister at the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said after a meeting with Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Gruncharo
- MAY 31, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canada supported Bulgaria in connection with the trial...
Canada supported Bulgaria in connection with the trial against the Bulgarian medics in Libya, Paul Dubois, Assistant Deputy Minister at the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said after a meeting with Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Gruncharo
- MAY 31, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Canada supported Bulgaria in connection with the trial...
Canada supported Bulgaria in connection with the trial against the Bulgarian medics in Libya, Paul Dubois, Assistant Deputy Minister at the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said after a meeting with Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Gruncharo
- MAY 30, 2004OhioDEATH PENALTY
Kenny Richey, the Scot who has spent more than 17 years...
Kenny Richey, the Scot who has spent more than 17 years on death row in the United States, said he would rather kill himself than spend any more time in prison
- MAY 30, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Kenny Richey, the Scot who has spent more than 17 years...
Kenny Richey, the Scot who has spent more than 17 years on death row in the United States, said he would rather kill himself than spend any more time in prison
- MAY 30, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Kenny Richey, the Scot who has spent more than 17 years...
Kenny Richey, the Scot who has spent more than 17 years on death row in the United States, said he would rather kill himself than spend any more time in prison
- MAY 30, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
agents arrested 32 men and women at a birthday party.
agents arrested 32 men and women at a birthday party.
- MAY 30, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
according to the decree issued by...
according to the decree issued by...
- MAY 29, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The Iranian judiciary had started to take steps to...
The Iranian judiciary had started to take steps to quash the death sentence re-imposed on dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari, following orders from Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news agency reported
- MAY 29, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Hoang Van Xuan, a 27-year-old builder, was sentenced...
Hoang Van Xuan, a 27-year-old builder, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted of murdering three members of one family and looting their house
- MAY 29, 2004United StatesDEATH PENALTY
At a symposium on capital punishment in Tokyo, sponsored...
At a symposium on capital punishment in Tokyo, sponsored by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Renny Cushing, the executive director of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, also the son of a murdered man in the US, said bereaved families of
- MAY 29, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
At a symposium on capital punishment in Tokyo, sponsored...
At a symposium on capital punishment in Tokyo, sponsored by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Renny Cushing, the executive director of Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, also the son of a murdered man in the US, said bereaved families of
- MAY 28, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A South Korean man was executed in China on for murdering...
A South Korean man was executed in China on for murdering his Chinese girlfriend and her sister
- MAY 28, 2004South KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A South Korean man was executed in China on for murdering...
A South Korean man was executed in China on for murdering his Chinese girlfriend and her sister
- MAY 28, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court sentenced a former doomsday cult...
The Tokyo High Court sentenced a former doomsday cult member Yoshihiro Inoue to death for a 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways, overturning a lower court ruling condemning him to life in prison
- MAY 28, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Serbia and Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic...
Serbia and Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic promised his Bulgarian counterpart Georgy Parvanov that his country would mediate on behalf of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a case involving AIDS-contaminated blood
- MAY 28, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Serbia and Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic...
Serbia and Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic promised his Bulgarian counterpart Georgy Parvanov that his country would mediate on behalf of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a case involving AIDS-contaminated blood
- MAY 28, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
"China will use its influence to encourage a fair solution...
"China will use its influence to encourage a fair solution to the issue of the Bulgarian nurses sentenced in Libya," Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), told Bulgarian National Assembly Chairman Ogny
- MAY 28, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A group of 12 convicted drug traffickers was sentenced...
A group of 12 convicted drug traffickers was sentenced to death by a court in central China, for the buying and selling of heroin
- MAY 28, 2004St. LuciaDEATH PENALTY
The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)...
The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Appeal Court upheld the death sentences imposed on Kim John and Francis Phillip in 2003 for murdering a Roman Catholic priest and a nun
- MAY 28, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
"China will use its influence to encourage a fair solution...
"China will use its influence to encourage a fair solution to the issue of the Bulgarian nurses sentenced in Libya," Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), told Bulgarian National Assembly Chairman Ogny