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
- APRIL 21, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
Sudan voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Sudan voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004MauritiusDEATH PENALTY
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the...
Mauritius was a cosponsor of the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone voted against the resolution on the death...
Sierra Leone voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Uganda voted against the resolution on the death penalty...
Uganda voted against the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 21, 2004United NationsDEATH PENALTY
In response to the adoption of a resolution for a moratorium...
In response to the adoption of a resolution for a moratorium on executions by the UN Commission on Human Rights, Debabrata Saha, a representative of India, said the international community had not yet reached consensus on the issue of capital punishment,
- APRIL 21, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In Tallahassee the House Public Safety Committee has...
In Tallahassee the House Public Safety Committee has approved 17-1 legislation that would ban the death penalty for people who are under 18 years of age when they commit a capital crime
- APRIL 21, 2004DEATH PENALTY
A House panel gave preliminary approval to a bill backed...
A House panel gave preliminary approval to a bill backed by President Bush to make terrorists crimes that result in death punishable by death or life in prison
- APRIL 21, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Texas court overturns two death sentences The Texas...
Texas court overturns two death sentences The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals today overturned two death sentences, one for an inmate it says is mentally retarded and another for a man police said aided in the ambush killing of an officer
- APRIL 21, 2004DEATH PENALTY
UN. COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVES ANTI DEATH PENALTY RESOLUTION
April 21, 2004: for the eighth consecutive year the Commission approved the anti death penalty resolution for a moratorium on capital executions.
- APRIL 20, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Seif bin Olayan bin Mohammad al-Zughaibi, a Saudi national,...
Seif bin Olayan bin Mohammad al-Zughaibi, a Saudi national, was executed in Riyadh for shooting Abdullah bin Marzouq al-Harbi after a row which broke out as they drove in the capital
- APRIL 20, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Sharia Appeal Court in the central Nigerian city...
The Sharia Appeal Court in the central Nigerian city of Minna, postponed the appeal of a young couple of former lovers who were sentenced to be stoned to death after a new defence lawyer moved to take over the case
- APRIL 20, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 20, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling...
Mohammad Wahab Widad, a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Tran Van Chung, an unemployed man, was sentenced to...
Tran Van Chung, an unemployed man, was sentenced to death in Vietnam for killing a woman after she spurned his amorous advances
- APRIL 20, 2004SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said
- APRIL 20, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan...
The Sudanese authorities would let a UN team into Sudan within days to probe alleged atrocities by government-backed militia in the western Darfur region after initially denying the group entry, a UN spokesman said
- APRIL 20, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan...
A court in Vietnam's Dong Nai province sentenced Phan Thanh Nhan, 21, to death after he was convicted of killing his pregnant lover in October 2003
- APRIL 20, 2004AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the...
Afghanistan carried out its first execution since the fall of the Taliban, putting a bullet to the head of Abdullah Shah, a former military commander convicted of more than 20 murders
- APRIL 19, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The US federal government must intervene with the states...
The US federal government must intervene with the states to ensure a review of the cases of foreigners - particularly Mexicans - sitting on death row, The New York Times said in an editorial
- APRIL 19, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan Police chief, Major General Katumba Wamala...
Ugandan Police chief, Major General Katumba Wamala urged for tightening of the law on rape and defilement
- APRIL 19, 2004MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Japan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed...
Japan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed on Wong Yeesun, a 35-year-old Malaysian national convicted of killing three people and injuring another during robberies in four prefectures in Japan in 1993
- APRIL 19, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
The justice sector in Vietnam would consider reviewing...
The justice sector in Vietnam would consider reviewing the list of offenses subject to the death penalty, especially economic crime, following public concern over the large number of executions in Vietnam
- APRIL 19, 2004United StatesDEATH PENALTY
The US federal government must intervene with the states...
The US federal government must intervene with the states to ensure a review of the cases of foreigners - particularly Mexicans - sitting on death row, The New York Times said in an editorial
- APRIL 19, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
Japan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed...
Japan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence imposed on Wong Yeesun, a 35-year-old Malaysian national convicted of killing three people and injuring another during robberies in four prefectures in Japan in 1993
- APRIL 19, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
North Korea denounced as a "US-orchestrated political...
North Korea denounced as a "US-orchestrated political plot" a UN resolution calling for the reclusive state to allow investigations into allegations of torture and human rights abuses
- APRIL 19, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
North Korea denounced as a "US-orchestrated political...
North Korea denounced as a "US-orchestrated political plot" a UN resolution calling for the reclusive state to allow investigations into allegations of torture and human rights abuses
- APRIL 19, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul II said that terrorism could not be...
Pope John Paul II said that terrorism could not be combated with the death penalty but, on the contrary, by the promotion of respect for the dignity of the human person
- APRIL 19, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Pope John Paul II said that terrorism could not be...
Pope John Paul II said that terrorism could not be combated with the death penalty but, on the contrary, by the promotion of respect for the dignity of the human person
- APRIL 19, 2004MissouriDEATH PENALTY
In New Madrid, Judge Fred Copeland of the 34th Judicial...
In New Madrid, Judge Fred Copeland of the 34th Judicial Court sentenced Mark Gill, 33, to death in the July 2002 killing of Ralph Lape Jr
- APRIL 19, 2004DEATH PENALTY
OLIVIERO TOSCANI’S INTERVENTION AT THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS