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 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's top legal experts vowed there would be no let-up...
China's top legal experts vowed there would be no let-up in the war on graft, warning that even ranking officials should not consider themselves above the law
- MARCH 10, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC)...
Members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) and the Regional Tibetan Women's Association from Bylakuppe, Hunsur, Kollegal, and Mysore staged a candlelight demonstration at the Town Hall in Mysore, India, to draw public attention to the death sen
- MARCH 10, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC)...
Members of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC) and the Regional Tibetan Women's Association from Bylakuppe, Hunsur, Kollegal, and Mysore staged a candlelight demonstration at the Town Hall in Mysore, India, to draw public attention to the death sen
- MARCH 10, 2004CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Joseph Anthony Barrett was given a death penalty sentence...
Joseph Anthony Barrett was given a death penalty sentence by a jury in the Imperial County Courthouse in El Centro
- MARCH 10, 2004GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
A federal jury in Gainesville sentenced William LeCroy Jr
A federal jury in Gainesville sentenced William LeCroy Jr
- MARCH 10, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe said 64 suspected mercenaries aboard a plane...
Zimbabwe said 64 suspected mercenaries aboard a plane seized in Harare could be executed for what it claimed was a western plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea
- MARCH 10, 2004Equatorial GuineaDEATH PENALTY
Zimbabwe said 64 suspected mercenaries aboard a plane...
Zimbabwe said 64 suspected mercenaries aboard a plane seized in Harare could be executed for what it claimed was a western plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea
- MARCH 10, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
according to the intelligence and public relations department of Khuzistan province's judiciary...
according to the intelligence and public relations department of Khuzistan province's judiciary...
- MARCH 9, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Delegates at the constitutional review conference in...
Delegates at the constitutional review conference in Kenya decided that the death penalty would be abolished except in case of murder, child molestation and any other matters established by legislation
- MARCH 9, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's security tsar quietly ordered fewer executions...
China's security tsar quietly ordered fewer executions in keeping with a drive by the new leadership to cultivate a gentler image for the authoritarian government, two independent sources said
- MARCH 9, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Motaleb was executed by hanging at midnight in...
Abdul Motaleb was executed by hanging at midnight in Comilla Central Jail, Bangladesh
- MARCH 9, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
Two groups of Cuban dissidents announced they were...
Two groups of Cuban dissidents announced they were starting a campaign to gather petitions for a moratorium on the death penalty on the communist-ruled island
- MARCH 9, 2004Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia's first independent human rights organisation...
Saudi Arabia's first independent human rights organisation won royal blessing in the latest sign of political reform within the conservative Muslim kingdom
- MARCH 9, 2004Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The Burma Lawyers' Council (BLC), a Thailand-based...
The Burma Lawyers' Council (BLC), a Thailand-based Burmese legal advocacy group, issued an urgent appeal to the international community on behalf of nine people who were sentenced to death by a Rangoon court in November 2003
- MARCH 9, 2004ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A jury sentenced David Lamar Anthony, 55, to 3 death...
A jury sentenced David Lamar Anthony, 55, to 3 death sentences for the 2001 murder of his wife and 2 stepchildren
- MARCH 9, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, David Jay Brown was put to death
In McAlester, David Jay Brown was put to death
- MARCH 9, 2004VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Prince William County Circuit Judge LeRoy F
Prince William County Circuit Judge LeRoy F
- MARCH 8, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch accused China of shirking its responsibilities...
Human Rights Watch accused China of shirking its responsibilities by seeking to classify North Korean refugees as illegal immigrants and return them to almost certain persecution
- MARCH 8, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch accused China of shirking its responsibilities...
Human Rights Watch accused China of shirking its responsibilities by seeking to classify North Korean refugees as illegal immigrants and return them to almost certain persecution
- MARCH 8, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
Saadollah Rahimi and Dalir Mohammadi, two Iranians...
Saadollah Rahimi and Dalir Mohammadi, two Iranians convicted of kidnapping and murdering an eight-year-old boy eight days previously, were executed by hanging in the western Kurdish town of Baneh
- MARCH 8, 2004JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
The Jamaica government warned criminals that the authorities...
The Jamaica government warned criminals that the authorities would move swiftly against them, as law enforcement officials urged the Patterson administration to resume capital punishment
- MARCH 8, 2004PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
Francisco Juan "Paco" Larranaga, one of the six convicted...
Francisco Juan "Paco" Larranaga, one of the six convicted perpetrators in the controversial rape-slay of Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong in 1997, asked the Supreme Court to reverse its February 3 ruling elevating his sentence from two life terms to death by
- MARCH 8, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Gao Pan was executed for a crime committed in 2001, possibly before he was 18 years old.
Gao Pan was executed for a crime committed in 2001, possibly before he was 18 years old.
- MARCH 6, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Judges at the Tangerang District Court in Indonesia...
Judges at the Tangerang District Court in Indonesia sentenced Nigerian Stephen Rasyaad Akinyemi, 35, to death by firing squad for drug smuggling
- MARCH 6, 2004IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Judges at the Tangerang District Court in Indonesia...
Judges at the Tangerang District Court in Indonesia sentenced Nigerian Stephen Rasyaad Akinyemi, 35, to death by firing squad for drug smuggling
- MARCH 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Suhail alias Lali was sentenced to death fine of Rs...
Suhail alias Lali was sentenced to death fine of Rs 50,000 in Lahore, Pakistan, by Additional District and Sessions Judge Najam-ul-Hassan Bukhari for murdering a property dealer
- MARCH 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Umer Shahid was sentenced to death sentence with a...
Umer Shahid was sentenced to death sentence with a fine of Rs
- MARCH 6, 2004PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Tahir Waseem was sentenced to death with a fine of Rs
Tahir Waseem was sentenced to death with a fine of Rs
- MARCH 5, 2004RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A Rwandan court sentenced nine people to death and...
A Rwandan court sentenced nine people to death and one to life imprisonment over the killing of a survivor who was due to testify about their role in the country's 1994 genocide
- MARCH 5, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Xu Ming, Luo Shoujun, Cao Zhenjun, three members of...
Xu Ming, Luo Shoujun, Cao Zhenjun, three members of a mafia-like gang, were sentenced to death by an intermediate court in Dalian city, Liaoning province in northeastern China, for theft, assault and kidnapping