Archive timeline
2006
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2006, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2006
- AUGUST 23, 2006DEATH PENALTY
Jurors recommended that Ricky Javon Gray be condemned to death for the murders...
Jurors recommended that Ricky Javon Gray be condemned to death for the murders of Stella and Ruby Harvey during a robbery.
- AUGUST 23, 2006VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
Jurors recommended that Ricky Javon Gray be condemned...
Jurors recommended that Ricky Javon Gray be condemned...
- AUGUST 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Bahram...
a man, identified only as Bahram...
- AUGUST 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
a man, identified only as Morteza N., 20...
a man, identified only as Morteza N., 20...
- AUGUST 22, 2006South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Circuit Court Judge John C. Few has thrown out the 1998 death sentence of Jimmy Clifton Locklair...
Circuit Court Judge John C. Few has thrown out the 1998 death sentence of Jimmy Clifton Locklair, 34, citing misconduct by both defense counsel and former Solicitor Holman Gossett.
- AUGUST 22, 2006NevadaDEATH PENALTY
a Las Vegas jury has condemned a 22-year-old man for stabbing...
a Las Vegas jury has condemned a 22-year-old man for stabbing a 3-year-old girl to death and seriously injuring her 10-year-old sister on Jan. 22, 2003.
- AUGUST 22, 2006DEATH PENALTY
Circuit Court Judge John C. Few has thrown out the 1998 death sentence...
Circuit Court Judge John C. Few has thrown out the 1998 death sentence of Jimmy Clifton Locklair, 34, citing misconduct by both defense counsel and former Solicitor Holman Gossett.
- AUGUST 21, 2006BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN. USE DEATH PENALTY AS DETERRENT SAY MPS
a call for Bahrain to enforce the death penalty went out from MPs and lawyers in the wake of the brutal shooting of a Bahraini man in Muharraq. The murder of Bahraini Mahdi Abdulrahman Mohammed, 38, followed the slaying of 37-year-old Bahraini Sana Al Jal
- AUGUST 21, 2006IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIA DELAYS EXECUTIONS OF BALI BOMBERS
Indonesia put off the executions of three men sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali blasts, the attorney-general's office said, citing a judicial review planned by defence lawyers.
- AUGUST 21, 2006AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
a Houston County jury recommended 11-1 a death sentence for Ray Grace Junior.
a Houston County jury recommended 11-1 a death sentence for Ray Grace Junior.
- AUGUST 21, 2006DEATH PENALTY
a Houston County jury recommended 11-1 a death sentence for Ray Grace Junior.
a Houston County jury recommended 11-1 a death sentence for Ray Grace Junior.
- AUGUST 20, 2006DEATH PENALTY
Stephen Stanko, 38, was sentenced to death for the April 8...
Stephen Stanko, 38, was sentenced to death for the April 8, 2005 murder of his live-in girlfriend Laura Ling, 43, and raping her 15-year-old daughter.
- AUGUST 20, 2006South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Stephen Stanko, 38, was sentenced to death for the April 8...
Stephen Stanko, 38, was sentenced to death for the April 8...
- AUGUST 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran hanged a man, identified only as Karim B., for drug-related crime
Iran hanged a man, identified only as Karim B., for drug-related crime
- AUGUST 19, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
it was reported that an Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in the northern town of Sari.
- AUGUST 19, 2006FloridaDEATH PENALTY
in Punta Gorda, Stephen Smith was sentenced in the death...
in Punta Gorda, Stephen Smith was sentenced in the death...
- AUGUST 18, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR ‘INDIAN SPY’
Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Sarabjit Singh, alleged to be an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing and involved in five bomb blasts in Pakistan.
- AUGUST 18, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR EX-AUM SENIOR MEMBER
the Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court's death sentence for former AUM Shinrikyo senior member Masami Tsuchiya for producing nerve gas used in the cult's mass murder of 20 people.
- AUGUST 18, 2006North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
North Carolina executed Samuel Flippen for the beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter 12 years ago.
North Carolina executed Samuel Flippen for the beating death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter 12 years ago. Flippen was pronounced dead at 2:11 a.m.
- AUGUST 17, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MENTALLY ILL DRIVER WHO KILLED FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH WITH REPRIEVE
Lin Qingqi, a driver whose car hit a group of people, killing four and injuring 22 in Kunming in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, was sentenced to death, suspended for two years.
- AUGUST 17, 2006TexasDEATH PENALTY
Richard Hinojosa, 44, was executed for the May 10, 1994 abduction...
Richard Hinojosa, 44, was executed for the May 10, 1994 abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of 29-year-old Terry Wright.
- AUGUST 17, 2006OhioDEATH PENALTY
Donald Lavell Craig has been sentenced to death for the Jan...
Donald Lavell Craig has been sentenced to death for the Jan. 19, 1995 kidnapping, raping and strangling of 13-year-old Malissa Nicole Thomas.
- AUGUST 16, 2006RwandaDEATH PENALTY
RWANDA MAY REVIEW DEATH PENALTY
Rwanda is to consider a proposal to scrap the death penalty for genocide suspects living in exile.
- AUGUST 16, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. THIRD EXECUTION DELAY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW
PAKISTAN. THIRD EXECUTION DELAY FOR MAN ON DEATH ROW August 16, 2006: Mirza Tahir Hussain, on death row in Pakistan for killing a taxi driver, was granted a stay of execution till October 1. Hussain, 36, had spent half his life in jail after being con
- AUGUST 16, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
Mushtaq Ahmed, 58, was hanged in New Central Prison, Pakistan, for murder.
- AUGUST 16, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR SOME CRIMES SYMBOLIC AT BEST, FIDH
the Jordanian Government's decision to abolish the death penalty for some crimes is a positive but insufficient step, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said as it released the preliminary findings of a fact-finding mission that visited
- AUGUST 15, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. DHAKA BOMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
three Islamists were sentenced to death and five others jailed for life for a series of bombings in Bangladesh.
- AUGUST 15, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran. International outcry saved a woman sentenced to death in Iran
following an international campaign to save the life of Ashraf Kalhori, a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran, the judiciary stopped the sentence being carried out.
- AUGUST 15, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE MEN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
three Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in public in the southeastern cities of Zabol and Zahedan.
- AUGUST 14, 2006ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
in Phoenix, the Arizona Supreme Court overturned a man’s death sentence...
in Phoenix, the Arizona Supreme Court overturned a man’s death sentence...