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
- MARCH 23, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty...
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (ACADP) received hundreds of messages from Australians offering support for Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a Melbourne man sentenced to death in Singapore after being found guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of
- MARCH 23, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty...
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (ACADP) received hundreds of messages from Australians offering support for Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a Melbourne man sentenced to death in Singapore after being found guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of
- MARCH 22, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Farhad and Mansur Muhammadi, two Iranian brothers who...
Farhad and Mansur Muhammadi, two Iranian brothers who hijacked a Russian plane to Oslo in 1993, were allowed to remain in Norway temporarily, but would not receive permanent resident permits, the Norwegian government said
- MARCH 22, 2004VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
The streets of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, saw...
The streets of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, saw large-scale political demonstrations as the opposition took to the streets to demand respect for human rights
- MARCH 22, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xu Lijie, 42, was sentenced to death by the Bozhou...
Xu Lijie, 42, was sentenced to death by the Bozhou City Intermediate People's Court of east China's Anhui Province
- MARCH 22, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International called for a moratorium on the...
Amnesty International called for a moratorium on the death penalty in China, saying the country's dysfunctional criminal justice system meant many innocent people were being executed
- MARCH 22, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Ho Van Thanh, a 47-year-old man, was sentenced to death...
Ho Van Thanh, a 47-year-old man, was sentenced to death by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court, Vietnam, for murdering a man while in a drunken rage
- MARCH 22, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Rodrigo Hernandez, 30, has been convicted to death...
Rodrigo Hernandez, 30, has been convicted to death for the February 1994 rape and slaying of Susan Verstegen, 25
- MARCH 22, 2004NorwayDEATH PENALTY
Farhad and Mansur Muhammadi, two Iranian brothers who...
Farhad and Mansur Muhammadi, two Iranian brothers who hijacked a Russian plane to Oslo in 1993, were allowed to remain in Norway temporarily, but would not receive permanent resident permits, the Norwegian government said
- MARCH 22, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ten people convicted of violent robbery and kidnapping...
Ten people convicted of violent robbery and kidnapping were sentenced to death in southern China's Shenzhen city, with four of them given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve
- MARCH 22, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six leading members of a gang of robbers were handed...
Six leading members of a gang of robbers were handed death death sentences in Shenzhen, China
- MARCH 22, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law...
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law firm Simons Muirhead and Burton, which represented three of the four men appeal including, Charles Matthews, from Trinidad, and Lennox Boyce and Jeffrey Joseph, from Barbados
- MARCH 22, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners...
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was unconstitutional
- MARCH 22, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners...
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was unconstitutional
- MARCH 22, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
(continues from above)The appeal was the culmination...
(continues from above)The appeal was the culmination of a strategy deployed over the last six years by English lawyers working free of charge on behalf of Caribbean death row inmates
- MARCH 22, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners...
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was unconstitutional
- MARCH 22, 2004BarbadosDEATH PENALTY
The appeal was the culmination of a strategy deployed...
The appeal was the culmination of a strategy deployed over the last six years by English lawyers working free of charge on behalf of Caribbean death row inmates
- MARCH 22, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners...
It was reported that hundreds of death row prisoners in Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica could win a reprieve if an unprecedented privy council hearing beginning in London ruled that the mandatory death penalty for murder was unconstitutional
- MARCH 22, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law...
The campaign had been spearheaded by the London law firm Simons Muirhead and Burton, which represented three of the four men appeal including, Charles Matthews, from Trinidad, and Lennox Boyce and Jeffrey Joseph, from Barbados
- MARCH 21, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please...
"I want my son to come home or to go to jail, please don't hang him, please," Kim Nguyen sobbed moments after a High Court judge in Singapore ordered the execution of 23-year-old Nguyen Tuong Van
- MARCH 21, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Upper Sharia Court in Bauchi State, Nigeria, overturned...
The Upper Sharia Court in Bauchi State, Nigeria, overturned the conviction of Jibrin Babaji, a 23-year-old man who had been sentenced to be stoned to death for molesting three young boys
- MARCH 20, 2004AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 20, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne,...
Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a sales executive from Melbourne, Australia, was sentenced to death after the Singapore High Court found him guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of heroin
- MARCH 20, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
A jury that earlier this week found Guy Allen guilty...
A jury that earlier this week found Guy Allen guilty of the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend and her daughter decided he should die for his crime
- MARCH 20, 2004BhutanDEATH PENALTY
The King of Bhutan issued a royal decree abolishing...
The King of Bhutan issued a royal decree abolishing capital punishment in the kingdom
- MARCH 20, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Slalhuddin Tipu and Abdul Jabber Labu were sentenced...
Slalhuddin Tipu and Abdul Jabber Labu were sentenced to death and five others were awarded life imprisonment by a speedy trial tribunal in Chittagong, Banlgadesh, for the murder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Kamaluddin
- MARCH 19, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging...
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging in Changi Prison, Singapore, after being convicted of stabbing roommate and colleague Wang Hong to death after a violent quarrel at a restaurant on February 4, 2002
- MARCH 19, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Luong Van Thanh, 22, and Nguyen Van Hoa, 48, were executed...
Luong Van Thanh, 22, and Nguyen Van Hoa, 48, were executed at dawn by firing squad at Hanoi's Cau Nga, Vietnam, for drug trafficking
- MARCH 19, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging...
Chinese national Jin Yugang, 37, was executed by hanging in Changi Prison, Singapore, after being convicted of stabbing roommate and colleague Wang Hong to death after a violent quarrel at a restaurant on February 4, 2002