Archive timeline
2005
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2005, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2005
- JUNE 3, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FORMER CITY POLICE HEAD SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Yang Shihong, a former local Communist Party official, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by the Huangshi Municipal Intermediate People's Court in central China's Hubei Province.
- JUNE 3, 2005DelawareDEATH PENALTY
Michael E. Keyser was sentenced to life in prison
Michael E. Keyser was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the September 2003 suffocation of 16-year-old Kimberly Holton.
- JUNE 3, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. JFBA LAUNCHES SERIES OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON DEATH PENALTY
the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, the country's largest lawyers' group, had launched a series of public hearings on its proposal to suspend executions while the Diet debated the use of capital punishment.
- JUNE 2, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
SPAIN. ‘THOUGHT IS FORBIDDEN’ OPENS IN MADRID
44 panels with the images of some of the 75 activists detained in March 2003 by the Castro regime in Cuba are part of the exhibition inaugurated in Madrid in the presence of the Euro MP Emma Bonino and City Councilor for Employment Ana Botella.
- JUNE 2, 2005DEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Saudi authorities executed Ahmed Ben Maid al-Zahrani.
- JUNE 2, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF MINOR
a sessions court in New Delhi, India, sentenced to death Satish of Nangla village. He had been charged with the rape and murder of a minor girl of the same village in August 2001.
- JUNE 2, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESSES JAPAN TO IMPROVE RIGHTS RECORD
Amnesty International called on Japan to abolish the death penalty and improve treatment of refugees and prisoners, saying its bid to join the UN Security Council put it under greater scrutiny.
- JUNE 2, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Ahmed bin Ibrahim al-Zahrani, a Saudi man convicted of stabbing a compatriot to death, was beheaded by the sword in the southwestern city of Al-Baha, the country’s interior ministry announced.
- JUNE 2, 2005AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
At 6:24 p.m., the state of Alabama executed Jerry Paul Henderson
At 6:24 p.m., the state of Alabama executed Jerry Paul Henderson
- JUNE 2, 2005Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
the Lao People's Court of Vientiane have given the death penalty to six people...
the Lao People's Court of Vientiane have given the death penalty to six people...
- JUNE 1, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE AFGHANS CONVICTED OF RAPE PUT TO DEATH BY HANGING
three Afghans convicted of raping an Iranian woman and stealing a sheep were hanged in the southern town of Ravar in Iran’s Kerman province. The three men -- identified as Nazar Mohammad, Kheyrollah, and Besmellah -- were reported to have been in the Isla
- JUNE 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. REPORTER MAY FACE DEATH PENALTY
China accused Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based reporter for Singapore's Straits Times newspaper, of spying for foreign agencies.
- JUNE 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WORLD NEWSPAPER GROUP DEMANDS RELEASE OF JOURNALIST WHO RISKS DEATH PENALTY
the World Association of Newspapers demanded the immediate release of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong detained in China on spy charges.
- JUNE 1, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. THREE MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER MURDER OF TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
an Iraqi court sentenced three people to death over the murder of a top government official in May.
- JUNE 1, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. CHINESE MAN IN FUKUOKA FAMILY MURDER APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE
Wei Wei, a Chinese national, appealed a district court ruling that sentenced him to death for his part in the murder in 2003 of a family of four in Fukuoka, Japan.
- JUNE 1, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER
Sialkot Additional District & Sessions Judge Khalid Arshad sentenced Akhtar Ali to death on two counts with a with a fine of Rs. 100,000 and sentenced to death with a fine of Rs. 50,000 each Babar Ali, Abdul Razzaq and Muhammad Ramzan alias Hakeem.
- JUNE 1, 2005TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN. MAN FACES DEATH PENALTY FOR POISONING ENERGY DRINKS WITH CYANIDE
Wang Ching-chan, a Taiwan national, faced the death penalty for poisoning high-energy drinks with cyanide in a botched extortion attempt that killed one man and made three more ill, prosecutors said.
- JUNE 1, 2005VenezuelaDEATH PENALTY
VENEZUELA. OFFICERS SACKED FOR EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS
Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon announced the removal from their posts of nine military officers and a police commander "for causing and falsifying the executions of three youths," whose deaths were originally said to have occurred during a conf
- JUNE 1, 2005YemenDEATH PENALTY
Abdallah Hadi Al-Maliki and Abdallah Hazam Dagheish were executed in Yeme for murder
Abdallah Hadi Al-Maliki and Abdallah Hazam Dagheish were executed in Yeme for murder
- MAY 31, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. RULING DELAYED IN DEATH SENTENCE AIDS CASE
Libya's high court delayed a ruling on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus. Judge Ali al-Allush said the case involving five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who have already
- MAY 31, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. SADDAM TRIAL MAY START IN TWO MONTHS: TALABANI
Saddam Hussein could be on trial within two months, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said, but Giovanni Di Stefano, a London lawyer representing the former Iraqi dictator, warned several legal steps had to be taken first.
- MAY 31, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. 7 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF THREE
seven people were sentenced to death by a Fast Track Court in Tirupattur, India, after being convicted of murdering three members of the same family.
- MAY 31, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. COURT UPHOLDS MAN’S APPEAL AGAINST STONING TO DEATH
a Sharia Court of Appeal, sitting in Bauchi State, Nigeria, upheld an appeal by Umar Tori against his conviction and sentence to death by stoning for adultery.
- MAY 31, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH PENALTY MAY BECOME HISTORY
it was reported that the government had decided to bring in amendments to the more-than-a-century-old Indian Penal Code (IPC) which, if approved by Parliament, would eliminate the existing provision of the “death sentence” even “in the rarest of rare” cas
- MAY 31, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
according to the ”Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America...
according to the ”Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America...
- MAY 30, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. OVERWHELMING SUPPORT FOR DEATH PENALTY
it was reported that the Baghdad offices of Iraq's prime minister, Ibrahim Jaafari, had been flooded with telegrams supporting the government's decision to reinstate the death penalty for terrorists.
- MAY 29, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. DEATH PENALTY RETURNS TO IRAQ, WITH A VENGEANCE
according to a poll conducted by the US International Republican Institute published earlier in the month, 60 percent of Iraqis wanted the nation's constitution, currently being drawn up by lawmakers, to mention "extensive use of the death penalty".
- MAY 29, 2005YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN. ZAIDI MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH
a Yemeni court sentenced to death Hussein Mohammad al-Dailami, a member of a rebel Shiite Zaidi movement, after he was convicted of forging illicit contacts with Iran. Dailami, 40, was sentenced to death for "making contacts with a foreign country, namely
- MAY 29, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. LIBYA READY TO COMPROMISE ON BULGARIAN MEDICS
the death sentences of the Bulgarian medics in Libya may be revoked if the interested parties manage to reach a consensus, the BBC cited Tripoli's foreign minister Abdel Rahman Mohammed Shalkam as saying after the visit of Bulgarian president Georgi Parva
- MAY 29, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. 60% OF IRAQIS FAVOUR INCLUSION OF DEATH PENALTY IN NEW CONSTITUTION, POLL
it was reported that according to a poll conducted by the US International Republican Institute published earlier in the month, 60% of Iraqis wanted the nation's constitution, currently being drawn up by lawmakers, to mention "extensive use of the death p