Archive timeline
2006
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2006, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 5,688
- Countries where they were recorded
- 42
- News items in the archive
- 2,021
Latest news of 2006
MAY 23, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA. VIDEO RECORDING TO BE USED IN DEATH SENTENCE CASES
China's courts will allow video cameras to record proceedings of appeal hearings involving death sentences, said Chief Justice Xiao Yang.
MAY 23, 2006ItalyDEATH PENALTYITALY. HANDS OFF CAIN IN SUPPORT OF PRODI’S COMMITMENT FOR A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS AT THE NEXT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Hands Off Cain’s leaders, Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, expressed their full appreciation for the statement made by newly elected Prime Minister Romano Prodi in favour of a universal moratorium on executions.
MAY 23, 2006United KingdomDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. HANGING OF BRITON POSTPONED
Pakistan postponed the execution of Briton Mirza Tahir Hussain for a month in order to give his family the chance to reach a settlement with the family of a taxi driver he was convicted of murdering.
MAY 23, 2006EthiopiaDEATH PENALTYETHIOPIA. MENGISTU VERDICT DELAYED
a verdict has been postponed until next year in the 12-year genocide trial of Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler.
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
Majid Sogan was hanged in public in the western Iranian city of Khoramabad for stabbing a friend to death two years previously.
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO CONVICTED MURDERERS HANGED
it was reported that an Iranian woman and a foreign man who were convicted of murder had been hanged in recent days in Iran’s north-eastern province of Khorasan Razavi.
- MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED IN PRISON FOR DRUG DEALING
it was reported that an armed narcotics smuggler, Masoud Naroui, was hanged in a prison in the southeastern city of Zahedan.
- MAY 22, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. 4 MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BID TO KILL PM
an anti-terrorism court in Pakistani sentenced four Islamist militants to death for an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
- MAY 22, 2006South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
the state Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a man who has been on death row for 20 years.
the state Supreme Court has granted a new trial to a man who has been on death row for 20 years.
MAY 22, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was hanged in public in the southern town of Jahrom.
- MAY 21, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
a court in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, sentenced to death Humayun, 35, and Jasim, 32, and sentenced two others to life-term imprisonment after convicting them of murder.
- MAY 21, 2006SudanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty charged in a 2005 report that minors are "convicted to death" in Sudan...
Amnesty charged in a 2005 report that minors are "convicted to death" in Sudan contrary to four international human rights treaties that prohibit juveniles from being sentenced to death or executed. An IPS investigation was unable to find evidence that
- MAY 21, 2006SudanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty charged in a 2005 report that minors are "convicted to death" in Sudan...
Amnesty charged in a 2005 report that minors are "convicted to death" in Sudan contrary to four international human rights treaties that prohibit juveniles from being sentenced to death or executed. An IPS investigation was unable to find evidence that
- MAY 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that 18-year-old Mehdi was sentenced to death in Iran in March 2006 for killing a man in Robat Karim...
it was reported that 18-year-old Mehdi was sentenced to death in Iran in March 2006 for killing a man in Robat Karim...
- MAY 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that at the beginning of January 2006 Iran’s Supreme Court rejected...
it was reported that at the beginning of January 2006 Iran’s Supreme Court rejected...
- MAY 20, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
EU. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SEEKS MERCY FOR BRITON IN PAKISTAN
the European Parliament wrote to Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf asking him to spare the life of a British man due to hang in June for the murder of a taxi driver 18 years ago.
MAY 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. MAN HANGED FOR KIDNAPPING AND ARMED ROBBERY
an Iranian man convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery was hanged in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
MAY 20, 2006YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
the death penalty handed down in Yemen to cleric Yahia Hussein al-Dailamiwas commuted into a term of imprisonment by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
- MAY 19, 2006BrazilDEATH PENALTY
BRAZIL. POLICE SUMMARILY EXECUTE GANG SUSPECTS
human rights groups voiced concern over summary executions as Brazilian police pressed on with a counter-attack against the First Capital Command, a powerful Sao Paulo gang, in a street war that had claimed at least 170 lives.
- MAY 19, 2006BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. PROSECUTORS DEMAND DEATH FOR ISLAMIC MILITANTS
prosecutors called for the death penalty for two militant leaders accused of waging a bloody campaign to impose Islamic law in Bangladesh.
- MAY 19, 2006SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE. MAN TO HANG FOR MURDER OF CHINESE GIRLFRIEND
a Singaporean man was sentenced to hang for murdering his Chinese girlfriend and chopping up her remains.
- MAY 19, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. MOSCOW TO SEEK RETURN OF DRUG DEALERS FACING EXECUTION IN CHINA
Russian parliamentarians will make every effort to achieve the return of two Russians arrested for drug dealing in China so they avoid the death penalty, said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee.
- MAY 19, 2006Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
PAPUA NEW GUINEA. DEATH PENALTY COMMUTED FOR THREE CONVICTED OF MURDER
the Waigani Supreme Court, Papua New Guinea, commuted into life imprisonment the penalties of three men from the country’s West New Britain province.
MAY 19, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM. FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR HEROIN DEALING
five people convicted of heroin dealing were executed in southern Ho Chi Minh City. The five, including two women, were put to death by firing squad before dawn.
MAY 19, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER
two men were hanged till death in Faisalabad Jail in Pakistan.
- MAY 18, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. THREE PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ELECTION MURDERS
Hu Jialong, Chen Riwen and Chen Dedao were sentenced to death by the Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court, China, after convicting them of killing a candidate supporter in a local election.
- MAY 18, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OF TERROR OUTFIT ACTIVISTS
the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of three Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activists for the murder of Syed Zafar Hussain, a director of laboratories of the ministry of defence, on July 30, 2001.
- MAY 18, 2006CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
democrats played the role of executioner...
democrats played the role of executioner, killing a bill that sought to protect doctors from dealing with the death penalty. Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, had introduced Senate Bill 1808 to shield doctors from having their licenses suspended or remov
- MAY 18, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. FILIPINA SAVED FROM BEHEADING
Sarah Dematera, a Filipina convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia, has been saved from execution through the intercession of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and the victim's family has accepted part of a total of 28 million pesos (417,000 EU) in blood mon
- MAY 18, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. VICTIMS DEMAND HARSH SENTENCE AGAINST BESLAN HOSTAGE-TAKER
relatives of those killed in the Beslan school massacre called for a harsh sentence -- even death -- as the reading out of a guilty verdict against the sole-surviving hostage-taker entered its third day.