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
- MAY 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian reformist academic Hashem Aghajari, whose death...
Iranian reformist academic Hashem Aghajari, whose death sentence for blasphemy in 2002 led to mass protests, is unlikely to be executed although a provincial court has upheld the sentence, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said
- MAY 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the head of the justice department to re-examine "as quickly as possible" the file on dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari, condemned to death for blasphemy, the student news agency ISNA said
- MAY 15, 2004Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
Myanmar's junta dropped death sentences against nine...
Myanmar's junta dropped death sentences against nine men accused of high treason, including a journalist and three men charged over contacts with the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
- MAY 14, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision...
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision by the governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry commuting the death sentence of Mexican citizen Osvaldo Torres who had been scheduled to die next on May 18 for the murders of a man and woman during a burglary
- MAY 14, 2004KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
It was reported that Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev wanted the death penalty to be fully abolished in Kazakhstan
- MAY 14, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision...
Mexican President Vicente Fox welcomed the decision by the governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry commuting the death sentence of Mexican citizen Osvaldo Torres who had been scheduled to die next on May 18 for the murders of a man and woman during a burglary
- MAY 14, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari's death sentence...
Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari's death sentence for blasphemy will most probably be quashed by the supreme court, the student news agency ISNA said, quoting the head of the judiciary in western Hamadan province, Zekrollah Ahmadi
- MAY 14, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Baoji Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province,...
The Baoji Intermediate People's Court in Shaanxi Province, China, sentenced Zhao Shouyi and Wang Rangke to death; Chen Baoping to 15 years imprisonment; and Zhang Haixue to 10 years imprisonment for murder, the Xibu Fazhi Bao newspaper reported
- MAY 13, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Brad Henry commuted the death sentence of Osbaldo...
Gov. Brad Henry commuted the death sentence of Osbaldo Torres to life without parole. Henry's decision came shortly after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals voted 3-2 to give Osbaldo Torres' an indefinite stay of execution and grant his request for a
- MAY 13, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran...
Three Iranians convicted of murder were hanged in Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iranian dailies reported
- MAY 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Major General Liu Guangzhi, commandant of China's Air...
Major General Liu Guangzhi, commandant of China's Air Force Command Academy, and another academy officer were sentenced to death on charges of spying for rival Taiwan
- MAY 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A court in central China's Henan province sentenced...
A court in central China's Henan province sentenced to death a woman convicted of buying and selling 13 children in a case linked to a nationwide network of baby trafficking, state press said
- MAY 13, 2004GuyanaDEATH PENALTY
The UN applauded Guyana's national security chief for...
The UN applauded Guyana's national security chief for offering to step down and clearing the way for an independent inquiry into allegations of a state-sponsored death squad
- MAY 13, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The UN applauded Guyana's national security chief for...
The UN applauded Guyana's national security chief for offering to step down and clearing the way for an independent inquiry into allegations of a state-sponsored death squad
- MAY 13, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
the Meizhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province...
the Meizhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong Province...
- MAY 13, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a man named Sammy Kh. was sentenced to 80 whips
a man named Sammy Kh. was sentenced to 80 whips
- MAY 12, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Hoseyn Shari'atmadari, managing editor of the Iranian...
Hoseyn Shari'atmadari, managing editor of the Iranian daily Keyhan Persian, criticized the chief of the Judiciary Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi for his failure to put an end to the unjustifiable death sentence against academic Hashem Aghajari
- MAY 12, 2004BrazilDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian prosecutors said they were seeking the death...
Indonesian prosecutors said they were seeking the death penalty for Brazilian national Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira on trial for trying to smuggle 13 kilograms (29
- MAY 12, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Indonesian prosecutors said they were seeking the death...
Indonesian prosecutors said they were seeking the death penalty for Brazilian national Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira on trial for trying to smuggle 13 kilograms (29
- MAY 12, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Lloyd Johnson will not die for killing a woman in a...
Lloyd Johnson will not die for killing a woman in a restaurant, but he will face the death penalty for killing 2 other women in the same shooting spree
- MAY 12, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
After acknowledging to police that he had shot and...
After acknowledging to police that he had shot and killed a woman, Juan Jose Reynosa said he didn't want to spend a long time in prison
- MAY 11, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that three people were put to death...
It was reported that three people were put to death at dawn in Vietnam at the Cau Nga execution site in the capital's Tu Liem district
- MAY 11, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Philemon Muchapararwa was sentenced to death by the...
Philemon Muchapararwa was sentenced to death by the High Court in Zimbabwe after being found guilty of shooting two police officers at a roadblock
- MAY 11, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai Railway Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai Railway Intermediate People's Court sentenced Zhou Wenling to death for a murder he committed in Nanjing in 1994
- MAY 11, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
"UK soldiers have opened fire and killed civilians...
"UK soldiers have opened fire and killed civilians in southern Iraq in circumstances where there was apparently no imminent threat of death or serious injury to themselves or others," Amnesty International said in a report
- MAY 11, 2004IraqDEATH PENALTY
The punishments to be handed down by an Iraqi tribunal...
The punishments to be handed down by an Iraqi tribunal that will try former dictator Saddam Hussein and other top officials may include the death penalty, Salem Chalabi, the lawyer co-ordinating the trial, said
- MAY 11, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
"UK soldiers have opened fire and killed civilians...
"UK soldiers have opened fire and killed civilians in southern Iraq in circumstances where there was apparently no imminent threat of death or serious injury to themselves or others," Amnesty International said in a report
- MAY 11, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Some 600 students gathered at Tehran University to...
Some 600 students gathered at Tehran University to hear the sister of jailed Iranian dissident Hashem Aghajari, who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, denounce "religion in the service of power"
- MAY 11, 2004ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Zambian lawyer Kelvin Hang'andu was seeking to abolish...
Zambian lawyer Kelvin Hang'andu was seeking to abolish the death penalty in Zambia
- MAY 10, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Salman Nassiri, 30, was hanged in a prison in the city...
Salman Nassiri, 30, was hanged in a prison in the city of Lahijan, northern Iran