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 15, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Human Rights Commission rejected...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission rejected an attempt by the European Union to urge Russia to prevent executions, torture and other human rights abuses in war-torn Chechnya
- APRIL 15, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
The top UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed...
The top UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by an international monitor
- APRIL 15, 2004European UnionDEATH PENALTY
The United Nations Human Rights Commission rejected...
The United Nations Human Rights Commission rejected an attempt by the European Union to urge Russia to prevent executions, torture and other human rights abuses in war-torn Chechnya
- APRIL 15, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The top UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed...
The top UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by an international monitor
- APRIL 15, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US...
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by international observers
- APRIL 15, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US...
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by international observers
- APRIL 15, 2004TurkmenistanDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US...
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by international observers
- APRIL 15, 2004United NationsDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US...
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by international observers
- APRIL 15, 2004LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
District Attorney Paul Connick agreed that Ryan Matthews...
District Attorney Paul Connick agreed that Ryan Matthews should get a new trial and scheduled a court hearing to sign the papers
- APRIL 15, 2004North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Mike Easley pardoned Darryl Eugene Hunt, who was...
Gov. Mike Easley pardoned Darryl Eugene Hunt, who was cleared on February 6 (see) of a 1984 murder on the strength of DNA evidence that implicated someone else. The "pardon of innocence" closes the criminal case
- APRIL 15, 2004TennesseeDEATH PENALTY
Gov. Bredesen said the reprieve for condemned inmate...
Gov. Bredesen said the reprieve for condemned inmate Philip Workman won't be extended. (see April 4, 2001; September 15, 2003; January 9, 2004
- APRIL 15, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
a young man was sentenced to flogging
a young man was sentenced to flogging
- APRIL 14, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari had...
Iranian dissident intellectual Hashem Aghajari had his four-year jail sentence for insulting religious values dropped, but must await a review of his death sentence for blasphemy before he can hope to be released from prison, Zekrollah Ahmadi, judiciary c
- APRIL 14, 2004MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled in favour...
Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled in favour of denying any extradition request on the part of the United States that did not include a pledge not to sentence the extradited individual to life in prison
- APRIL 14, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The former judge of the Karnataka High Court in India, H
The former judge of the Karnataka High Court in India, H
- APRIL 14, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion...
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion to secure justice for Kenny Richey, who had spent the last 17 years on death row in Ohio
- APRIL 14, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion...
More than 150 British MPs backed a parliamentary motion to secure justice for Kenny Richey, who had spent the last 17 years on death row in Ohio
- APRIL 14, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled in favour...
Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled in favour of denying any extradition request on the part of the United States that did not include a pledge not to sentence the extradited individual to life in prison
- APRIL 14, 2004DEATH PENALTY
After years of trying, state Sen
After years of trying, state Sen
- APRIL 13, 2004KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait's court of cassation, the emirate's highest...
Kuwait's court of cassation, the emirate's highest court, upheld a death sentence for two Saudi brothers and a Kuwaiti for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in May 2002
- APRIL 13, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Three young Palestinian men found guilty of the gang...
Three young Palestinian men found guilty of the gang rape and murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the Gaza Strip were sentenced to death
- APRIL 13, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Kuwait's court of cassation, the emirate's highest...
Kuwait's court of cassation, the emirate's highest court, upheld a death sentence for two Saudi brothers and a Kuwaiti for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl in May 2002
- APRIL 13, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The wives of four bandits due to be hanged in Bangalore,...
The wives of four bandits due to be hanged in Bangalore, southern India, on April 16, were pinning their hopes on a last-minute presidential pardon, the women told AFP
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
The executions of Dossa and Naseer Ahmed were adjourned...
The executions of Dossa and Naseer Ahmed were adjourned for a month on the orders of the President of Pakistan
- APRIL 13, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal,...
Zaman Shah was hanged in the Central Jail in Sahiwal, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing his brother in law Sabir Shah in Okara on October 30, 1994
- APRIL 13, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
The Duma's deputy speaker Lyubov Sliska of the pro-president...
The Duma's deputy speaker Lyubov Sliska of the pro-president United Russia party, spoke out in favour of capital punishment for those found guilty of terrorism
- APRIL 13, 2004DEATH PENALTY
A measure to raise the minimum age for the death penalty...
A measure to raise the minimum age for the death penalty to 18 passed a key Senate committee, moving Florida one step closer to joining a national trend of halting the execution of minors
- APRIL 12, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
The speedy trial tribunal in Barisal, Bangladesh, sentenced...
The speedy trial tribunal in Barisal, Bangladesh, sentenced eight people to death, six of them in absentia, after convicting them of murder
- APRIL 12, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
The Kenyan police force was asked to name the officers...
The Kenyan police force was asked to name the officers who allegedly executed three suspects in Mombasa
- APRIL 12, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The People's Legal Forum (PLF) was to stage a demonstration...
The People's Legal Forum (PLF) was to stage a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in India seeking the abolition of death penalty in the country