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
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004MarylandDEATH PENALTY
The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned the death...
The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned the death sentence of John A
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Jefferson County, Kenisha Berry, 26, was sentenced...
In Jefferson County, Kenisha Berry, 26, was sentenced to death
- FEBRUARY 19, 2004UtahDEATH PENALTY
In Salt Lake City, the Utah Legislature gave final...
In Salt Lake City, the Utah Legislature gave final approval to a bill eliminating firing squad executions for condemned prisoners
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that four prisoners on death in Papua...
It was reported that four prisoners on death in Papua New Guinea were awaiting execution as they had exhausted all their appeals
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North...
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, submitted a petition to the Canadian Embassy in Seoul, requesting that the Canadian government grant political refugee status to Ri Song-dae, 36, a former North Korean diplomat
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
"The death penalty, as a mode of punishment, is contrary...
"The death penalty, as a mode of punishment, is contrary to the contemporary human rights standards and values and, thus, its continued application in Nigeria would downgrade the status of the country among the comity of democratic nation-states that have
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Tangail, Bangladesh, condemned Badsha Mia...
A court in Tangail, Bangladesh, condemned Badsha Mia to death in absentia for killing his mother
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North...
A civic group, Democracy Network Against the North Korean Gulag, submitted a petition to the Canadian Embassy in Seoul, requesting that the Canadian government grant political refugee status to Ri Song-dae, 36, a former North Korean diplomat
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people,...
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people, including an Indian national, to death and awarded life imprisonment to two others for murder
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people,...
A court in Naogaon, Bangladesh, sentenced two people, including an Indian national, to death and awarded life imprisonment to two others for murder
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Alan Gell, 28, who spent a decade behind bars in the...
Alan Gell, 28, who spent a decade behind bars in the 1995 murder of Allen Ray Jenkins, has been set free after a Bertie County jury's not-guilty verdict
- FEBRUARY 18, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Tomas Raul Gallo, 28, convicted of raping and murdering...
Tomas Raul Gallo, 28, convicted of raping and murdering a 3-year-old girl was sentenced to the death penalty
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
The Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced Aziz Karimov to the...
The Uzbek Supreme Court sentenced Aziz Karimov to the death penalty, aftre convicting him of being one of the plotters of the explosion in Bishkek's Oberon marketplace on 27 December 2002 which claimed seven lives
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced four...
A court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced four people to death and five to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the murder of Ashraful Haque Mollah, a pro-government student leader
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004QatarDEATH PENALTY
Qatar passed its first anti-terror law, which stipulated...
Qatar passed its first anti-terror law, which stipulated the death penalty for killing "through a terror act"
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Seven criminals convicted for murder and robbery were...
Seven criminals convicted for murder and robbery were put to death in Beijing immediately following execution orders issued by the Beijing high court
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Senator John Kerry, who now seems close to winning...
Senator John Kerry, who now seems close to winning the Democratic nomination to run against President George Bush in the upcoming US presidential elections, declared himself for a moratorium because of "serious systemic flaws" in the country's death penal
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russia's Criminal Code should not be applicable to...
Russia's Criminal Code should not be applicable to terrorists and "they must be placed outside the law" and executed on the spot, the deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, and the co-chairman of Rodina bloc Dmitry Rogozin s
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Four people, including two women, were executed by...
Four people, including two women, were executed by firing squad in Vietnam after being convicted on murder and drug trafficking charges an official said
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004DEATH PENALTY
In Topeka, the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed...
In Topeka, the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill clarifying Kansas' ban on executing mentally retarded defendants, even though some panel members think it is too broad
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, Norman Richard Cleary was put to death
In McAlester, Norman Richard Cleary was put to death
- FEBRUARY 17, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville...
Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville Tuesday night for the Dec
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
Botswana church leaders have spoken out against the...
Botswana church leaders have spoken out against the Appeal Court's decision to uphold the death sentence imposed on South African Marietta Bosch
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Britain told Zimbabwe it had promise not to execute...
Britain told Zimbabwe it had promise not to execute opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if it wanted London's assistance in his treason trial
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004ZimbabweDEATH PENALTY
Britain told Zimbabwe it had promise not to execute...
Britain told Zimbabwe it had promise not to execute opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if it wanted London's assistance in his treason trial
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors in Libya called for the death sentence...
Prosecutors in Libya called for the death sentence for seven health workers, six Bulgarian and one Palestinian, accused of spreading AIDS in a children's hospital in the northern Libyan town of Benghazi, Bulgarian radio reported
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
Prosecutors in Libya called for the death sentence...
Prosecutors in Libya called for the death sentence for seven health workers, six Bulgarian and one Palestinian, accused of spreading AIDS in a children's hospital in the northern Libyan town of Benghazi, Bulgarian radio reported
- FEBRUARY 16, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
"On the 15th anniversary of Imam Khomeyni's historic...
"On the 15th anniversary of Imam Khomeyni's historic decree on Salman Rushdie (the author of the heretic book "The Satanic Verses"), the divine fatwa still holds and continues to be valid, and nothing has been able to undermine or mar its effect and influ
- FEBRUARY 15, 2004Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Hong Kong businessman, Li Kwing-choy, held in Guangdong...
A Hong Kong businessman, Li Kwing-choy, held in Guangdong (China) since June 1998, was given a suspended death sentence for issuing fake cheques
- FEBRUARY 14, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was learned that a Japanese man in his 60s was sentenced...
It was learned that a Japanese man in his 60s was sentenced to death at a district court in Shenyang, north-eastern China, earlier in the month, on charges of trying to smuggle drugs to Japan