Archive timeline
2005
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2005, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 5,563
- Countries where they were recorded
- 41
- News items in the archive
- 2,252
Latest news of 2005
JUNE 24, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA. ACEH HAS FIRST CANINGS UNDER MUSLIM LAW
Indonesia carried out its first public canings, punishing 15 gamblers in front of a noisy crowd in tsunami-hit Aceh, the only province in the world's most populous Muslim nation to implement Islamic law.
JUNE 24, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPING WOMAN AT KNIFEPOINT
Saudi authorities executed a man for raping a woman at knifepoint in front of her family, the Interior Ministry announced.
- JUNE 23, 2005JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. MAN MAY HAVE BEEN WRONGLY EXECUTED
the Jordan Times said the Arab Human Rights Organization (AHRO) in Jordan was waiting for a government response on claims a man was executed for murders he did not commit.
- JUNE 23, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GUANGXI COURT SENTENCES SIX TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Yulin City Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Chen Lizhen, Feng Wenlong, Yang Libin, Liu Zhixiong, Wen Haixia and Ruan Yubin to death for trafficking 65 kg of heroin.
- JUNE 23, 2005JordanDEATH PENALTY
two brothers convicted of robbing, murdering and then burning a banker...
two brothers convicted of robbing, murdering and then burning a banker in August 2001 were hanged at dawn at Swaqa Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre, according to official sources.
JUNE 23, 2005MexicoDEATH PENALTYMEXICO. HOUSE APPROVES MEASURE TO PROHIBIT DEATH PENALTY
Mexico's House approved a measure striking the death penalty from the constitution and inserting language expressly prohibiting capital punishment.
- JUNE 22, 2005UzbekistanDEATH PENALTY
UNITED NATIONS. UN HUMAN RIGHTS, REFUGEE CHIEFS URGE KYRGYZSTAN TO PROTECT UZBEKS
Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, urged Kyrgyzstan to grant protection to people who had fled unrest in neighbouring Uzbekistan. Arbour and Guterres also said that Uzbekis
- JUNE 22, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING BOY
an Additional District and Sessions court in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, convicted Abdullah Al Mamun and sentenced him to death for killing a minor boy.
- JUNE 22, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS SLAMMED BY COUNCIL OF EUROPE
issuing a damning report on human rights and democracy in Russia, Europe's rights watchdog voted to pursue its monitoring of the country's rights situation.
- JUNE 22, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GUANGDONG COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH IN COUNTERFEIT CASE
the Jieyang City Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Liu Congbao to death and awarded life imprisonment to Zhou Chunnan and Xiao Peizheng after finding them guilty of printing counterfeit banknotes.
- JUNE 22, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WOMAN CONVICTED OF MURDER EXECUTED
Liu Suhua, a 36-year-old woman, was executed in Sanming City, in China's Fujian Province, for killing her former boyfriend and forcing teenage girls into prostitution. Liu, a villager of Ruijin in neighboring Jiangxi Province, and a mother of two at the t
- JUNE 22, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Liu Congbao a gang leader from Guangdong, China...
Liu Congbao a gang leader from Guangdong, China...
JUNE 22, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYPA. PALESTINIANS MAY ANNUL RULINGS OF SECURITY COURTS
President Mahmoud Abbas asked his justice minister to annul court verdicts against dozens of Palestinians, including some convicted of collaborating with Israel, an aide said.
JUNE 22, 2005VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM. LETHAL INJECTION PROPOSED AS EXECUTION METHOD
Vietnam's justice ministry has proposed legislation introducing lethal injections as an alternative method of carrying out death sentences, a ministry official said.
JUNE 22, 2005PhilippinesDEATH PENALTYTHE PHILIPPINES. COURT SENTENCES SEVEN MILITANTS TO DEATH
a Philippine court sentenced to death seven suspected members of the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militant group for the kidnapping and murder of farmers on the southern island of Basilan in 2001.
JUNE 22, 2005TexasDEATH PENALTYTEXAS, USA. GOVERNOR COMMUTES 28 DEATH SENTENCES
Gov. Rick Perry commuted the death sentences of 28 convicted killers. Perry ordered the commutations in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in March that the Constitution forbids executing anyone for a crime committed before the age of 18.
- JUNE 21, 2005IowaDEATH PENALTY
Angela Johnson should be put to death for her role in the drug-related slayings of five people in 1993...
Angela Johnson should be put to death for her role in the drug-related slayings of five people in 1993, a jury recommended. Judge Mark Bennett read the verdicts
- JUNE 21, 2005MoldovaDEATH PENALTY
MOLDOVA. PRESIDENT URGES PARLIAMENT TO ELIMINATE DEATH PENALTY FROM CONSTITUTION
Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin suggested that parliament make urgent amendments to the constitution in order to ban death penalty.
- JUNE 21, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER
Irshad alias Achoo was hanged to death in Gujranwala Central Jail, Pakistan, after being convicted of killing Rasheed Ahmed over a minor dispute at Jaton, in the in Gujranwala area, in 1994.
- JUNE 21, 2005PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
THE PHILIPPINES. DEATH PENALTY FOR POLL CHEATERS SOUGHT
Senator Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada had filed a bill seeking to amend the Omnibus Election Code (OEC) whereby capital punishment would be imposed on candidates found to have engaged in election fraud.
- JUNE 21, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTNCED TO DEATH IN A DOUBLE MURDER CASE IN CHITTAGONG
M. Saleh Noor, 40, was condemned to death by an Additional Sessions court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, for killing his wife and their four-month-old daughter.
- JUNE 21, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
AUSTRALIA. DEADLOCK OVER CHINA DEATH PENALTY
it was reported that a man suspected of murdering a Chinese student and leaving her body to rot for six months in a Canberra apartment could get away with the crime because Australian authorities were refusing to help the investigation, fearing he could b
- JUNE 21, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. FILM ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENTWITHDRAWN FROM CINEMA IN WEST BENGAL
a film, which questions the West Bengal government's stand on the hanging of rape and murder convict Dhananjoy Chatterjee in August 2004, was withdrawn from a state-run theatre with its director alleging that this was done at the behest of the chief minis
- JUNE 21, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GUANGDONG COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR TRAFFICKING
it was reported that recently, the Dongguan City Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced to death Li Shaobo, a 26 year old Yunnan native;
JUNE 21, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Saudi authorities executed Said bin Seif al-Zibya, a Saudi national convicted of killing a compatriot after an argument in Assir, in southern Saudi Arabia.
JUNE 21, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTYPALESTINE. COUNCIL OF EUROPE ASKS NATIONAL PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) asked the National Palestinian Authority (Anp) to abolish the death penalty, and condemned the four executions which took place in Gaza on June 12.
JUNE 21, 2005VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM. DRUG TRAFFICKERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
the People's Court in the northern province of Hoa Binh has sentenced four people involved in the largest drug trafficking ring in the province to death.
- JUNE 20, 2005GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for a Georgia inmate.
the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence for a Georgia inmate.
- JUNE 20, 2005TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. TAIWANESE NATIONAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE
Chen Kun Sung, a Taiwanese national was sentenced to death for killing his wife. It was alleged that Chen, 69, used a hammer and a knife to kill his 28-year-old Vietnamese wife after he became jealous while listening to her talking on the telephone with a
JUNE 20, 2005IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. COUNTRY STILL STONING WOMEN, SAYS NOBEL LAUREATE
Shirin Ebadi, a leading Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Laureate, said that the hardline Islamic regime was still using medieval punishments on its people, including the stoning of women for adultery and the torture of dissidents.