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
- MAY 28, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. ISLAMIST VIGILANTE SENTENCED TO DEATH
a member of an Islamist vigilante group convicted of a string of murders in Iran was sentenced to death while five other gang members were handed long prison terms.
- MAY 28, 2005JamaicaDEATH PENALTY
JAMAICA. COUNTRY’S TWO MAJOR PARTIES DISAGREE ON DEATH PENALTY
in the wake of calls for more steps to be taken in the fight against crime...
- MAY 28, 2005TexasDEATH PENALTY
in Fort Worth, Eddie C. Johnson, who has spent 8 years on death row...
in Fort Worth, Eddie C. Johnson, who has spent 8 years on death row, has been resentenced to life in prison because he was 17 when the murder occurred.
- MAY 27, 2005AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA. BALI COURT SENTENCES AUSTRALIA'S CORBY FOR 20 YRS
an Indonesian court sentenced Australian beauty therapist Schapelle Corby to 20 years in jail for trying to smuggle 4.1 kg (9 lb) of marijuana into Bali.
- MAY 27, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. CE RIGHTS CHIEF CALLS ON RUSSIA TO OUTLAW DEATH PENALTY
Russia is the only member country of the Council of Europe not to have legally abolished the death penalty...
- MAY 27, 2005IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TRIPURA FOR RAPE AND MURDER
Samir Bhaumick, a man convicted of raping and murdering a seven year old girl and then hiding her body in a box, was sentenced to death by a court in the West district of Tripura, India.
- MAY 27, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DEPUTY SEEKS LAW ON RUSSIA'S REJECTION OF DEATH PENALTY
State Duma legislative committee chief Pavel Krasheninnikov called on the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament to adopt a bill that would confirm the abolition of the death penalty in Russia.
- MAY 27, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIA TOO QUICK WITH DEATH PENALTY MORATORIUM IT CAN'T REVOKE, PARLIAMENTARIAN
Russia was too quick to introduce its capital punishment moratorium, Vladimir Vasilyev, State Duma member, told a news conference.
- MAY 27, 2005South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH AFRICA. DEATH ROW PRISONERS SHOULD BE RELEASED: SAPOHR
all prisoners on death row should be released, the South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) said.
- MAY 26, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
ITALY. TORCHLIT DEMONSTRATION FOR MAJDA, A MOROCCAN WOMAN AT RISK OF DECAPITATION IN SAUDI ARABIA
the plight of Majda Mustapha Mahir, a 40-year old Moroccan woman condemned to death in Saudi Arabia for the murder of her husband in 1998, took Hands Off Cain and the Association of Moroccan Women in Italy to the streets of Rome in protest.
- MAY 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. POLICE URGED TO STOP USING TORTURE TO MAKE PEOPLE CONFESS
China's top prosecution office urged police to stop using illegal methods such as torture to force suspects to confess, after a series of high profile miscarriages of justice.
- MAY 26, 2005VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. SIXTEEN DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD IN COUNTRY’S BIGGEST DRUGS CASE
sixteen people failed in their appeal against death sentences in Vietnam's biggest drug trafficking case, a court official in Ho Chi Minh City said.
- MAY 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MILK EXTORTION CASE
Qian Junbo was sentenced to death by the Xiangfan Intermediate Court in China’s Hubei province for poisoning milk products from the Inner Mongolian-based Mengniu Group in stores in Changsha and Wuhan cities early in 2004 and attempting to extort 200,000 y
- MAY 26, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MURDER CONVICT EXECUTED IN KOTLAKHPAT JAIL
Tajamal Abbas, 24, resident of Sheikhupura, Pakistan, was executed for murder at Kotlakhpat Jail at 4:30am in the presence of the victim’s father and uncle.
- MAY 26, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. TOP PENALTY FOR GAYS DEATH BY STONING SAYS SAUDI JUDGE
Shaykh Fu'ad al-Majid, president of the general court in Al-Qatif, Saudi Arabia, explained that the religious ruling awaiting those present at a ‘party’ on 19 May, in which 13 homosexuals were present, would be stoning to death if they were married and fo
- MAY 26, 2005South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH AFRICA. COURT SLAMS STATE'S DEATH-ROW DELAYS
the Human Rights Commission of South Africa commended the May 25 Constitutional Court judgment that ordered the government to report to the court by August 15 on what it had done to set aside the death sentences of the 62 people still on death row.
- MAY 26, 2005MarylandDEATH PENALTY
Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North granted death row inmate...
Anne Arundel County Judge Pamela L. North granted death row inmate Lawrence Michael Borchardt Sr. a new sentencing hearing, ruling that an attorney who defended the convicted killer at a capital sentencing hearing in 2000 provided ineffective counsel.
- MAY 26, 2005PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Jerry Chambers, convicted of murdering 3-year-old Porchia Bennett...
Jerry Chambers, convicted of murdering 3-year-old Porchia Bennett, should be executed for the 2003 crime, a jury unanimously decided today.
- MAY 26, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. GUANGDONG COURT SENTENCES TWO TO DEATH FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING
it was reported that recently, in its initial trial, the Maoming Intermediate People's Court, China, sentenced Yang Cuiyun, a 40 year old female from Yunnan, and Chen Luzong, from Maoming, to death for drug trafficking.
- MAY 25, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN PUBLICLY HANGED
a young man was hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, accused of armed robbery and disturbing the peace.
- MAY 25, 2005IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. FORMER ARMY CAPTAIN CONDEMNED TO DEATH
Tahassin Ali Mutar Janabi, an Iraqi army captain who served under ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, was sentenced to death.
- MAY 25, 2005South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
SOUTH AFRICA. DEATH ROW INMATES WIN FRESH SENTENCES
South Africa's Constitutional Court ruled that the country's last death row inmates be given new sentences in line with its post-apartheid constitution that outlaws capital punishment.
- MAY 25, 2005IndianaDEATH PENALTY
INDIANA, USA. GREGORY JOHNSON, MAN WHO WANTED TO DONATE LIVER, EXECUTED
Indiana executed Gregory Johnson, a convicted murderer who had sought a reprieve so he could donate part of his liver to an ailing sister.
- MAY 25, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
EU. ENVOY PRESSES LIBYA OVER DEATH ROW NURSES
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Union's external relations chief, met Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to press for the release of five nurses from Bulgaria who were facing execution for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
- MAY 25, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. HIGH COURT COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF TWO, ACQUITS TWO OTHERS
the High Court of Bangladesh, Dhaka, commuted the death penalties of Monir Hossain Liton and Abu Sayed, both in their early 20’s, into life imprisonment and acquitted teenagers Faisal Sharif Raju and Imran Hossain Sabuj who had previously been sentenced t
- MAY 25, 2005LaosDEATH PENALTY
LAOS. FIVE HANDED DEATH PENALTY FOR SMUGGLING AMPHETAMINES
five people were sentenced to death and four more handed life prison sentences in Laos after one of the country's biggest ever drug trafficking cases, the foreign ministry said.
- MAY 25, 2005TexasDEATH PENALTY
in Tarrant County, Chelsea Lea Richardson, 21, was unanimously sentenced to death
in Tarrant County, Chelsea Lea Richardson, 21, was unanimously sentenced to death
- MAY 25, 2005DEATH PENALTY
a Baldwin County judge pulled a 36-year-old convicted...
a Baldwin County judge pulled a 36-year-old convicted murderer off death row when prosecutors withdrew their push for capital punishment because of complex legal issues that arose after the man was sentenced.
- MAY 24, 2005PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. TRIBAL COUNCIL ORDERS EXECUTION OF TWO MEN
two men accused of murdering a taxi driver were executed by a firing squad on the orders of a tribal council in rural Pakistan, witnesses said, highlighting the rule of deep-rooted tribal customs.
- MAY 24, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a man named M. Mohsin was sentenced to death by a court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, for killing his uncle. Additional District and Sessions Judge Noor M Jahangir Sarker handed down the death sentence to Mohsin, 34, and fined him Tk 1,000.