Archive timeline
2007
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2007, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2007
- JANUARY 31, 2007DEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. 3 EXECUTED FOR DRUGS, ROBBERY AND MURDER
Saudi Arabia executed two Saudis and a Pakistani man for drug smuggling, armed robbery and murder, local media reported.
- JANUARY 31, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man for drug smuggling, local media reported.
Saudi Arabia executed a Pakistani man for drug smuggling, local media reported.
- JANUARY 31, 2007BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
FOUR MEN TO WALK GALLOWS FOR MURDER
three young men were sentenced to death and another to a life term for the murder of a neighbour at Sutrapur 18 months ago.
- JANUARY 31, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi nationals Salama Al Khelwi and Samir Al Mutairi were put to death in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, for a
Saudi nationals Salama Al Khelwi and Samir Al Mutairi were put to death in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, for a
- JANUARY 31, 2007IraqDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCES FOR NINE CONVICTED OF TERRORISM ANNOUNCED IN MOSUL
the Iraqi Central Criminal Court in the northern city of Mosul announced the death sentences of nine people convicted of terrorist offences...
- JANUARY 31, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
DEATH BY STONING CASE GOES TO UAE SUPREME COURT
the UAE Federal Supreme Court is looking into the case of a Pakistani man, identified as A., in his fifties, who was found guilty of having illicit affairs with his four stepdaughters and sentenced to death by stoning.
- JANUARY 31, 2007TaiwanDEATH PENALTY
TAIWAN: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER APPROVED
after many appeals, the Supreme Court of Taiwan this month approved the High Court's death sentence for Wang Hsiu-fang, a taxi driver convicted of murdering a woman and her three year old daughter in 1996
- JANUARY 30, 2007FranceDEATH PENALTY
FRANCE. DEATH PENALTY SOON REMOVED FROM CONSITUTION
The French National Assembly unanimously decided to remove the death penalty from the French Consitution. ‘Noone can be sentenced to death,’ states the only article of the Consitutional Law Bill that modifies the VIII title of the Fundamental Charter.
- JANUARY 30, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
FORMER TOBACCO OFFICIAL SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR EMBEZZLEMENT IN EAST CHINA
a provincial court upheld the death sentence of a tobacco official in east China's Fulian Province.
- JANUARY 30, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO REPRIEVED DEATH FOR SWINDLING NEARLY 12 MILLION YUAN IN EAST CHINA
a fraudster was sentenced to death with two years' reprieve, for swindling millions of yuan from over 300 people, according to a spokesman with the Nanchang People's Intermediate Court in east China's Jiangxi Province.
- JANUARY 30, 2007Sri LankaDEATH PENALTY
5 SENTECED TO DEATH IN QATAR
five Sri Lankan men were sentenced to death, including one in absentia, as they were found guilty of killing a compatriot in Doha last February.
- JANUARY 30, 2007MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA FEDERAL COURT REINSTATES DRUG TRAFFICKER’S DEATH SENTENCE
the Malaysian Federal Court reinstated the High Court's decision in imposing the death sentence on a construction worker, Saari Jusoh, who was found guilty for trafficking 12 years ago.
- JANUARY 30, 2007JordanDEATH PENALTY
MAN RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE FOR DOUBLE MURDER
according to the Jordan Times, the Criminal Court sentenced a 38-year-old man to death for the premeditated murder of his ex-wife and a man in Amman in 2004.
- JANUARY 30, 2007TexasDEATH PENALTY
Christopher Swift, 31, was executed...
Christopher Swift, 31, was executed...
- JANUARY 29, 2007VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM SENTENCES 8 DRUG TRAFFICKERS, PRODUCERS TO DEATH
a Vietnamese court handed down eight death sentences and 13 life imprisonment on local people on drugs charges. The People's Court of northern Son La province passed the death sentences on Trinh Nguyen
- JANUARY 29, 2007ItalyDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY. ITALY APPEALS TO AU TO HELP IMPLEMENT MORATORIUM
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi appealed to African leaders to help Italy in its attempt to have capital punishment suspended throghout the world. "We have to be pro life and against death in the same way that we are against injustice and suffering,"
- JANUARY 29, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA EXECUTES WOMAN FOR MURDER
a Saudi Ministry statement published by the official news agency SPA stated a Saudi woman, identified as Hala bint Marzouk al-Outaibi, was executed for murder.
- JANUARY 29, 2007BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. GADDAFI'S SON SAYS BULGARIAN NURSES TO BE SPARED EXECUTION
Libya will not execute five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death last month, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in a newspaper interview, calling the verdicts unfair.
- JANUARY 29, 2007KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZSTAN ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has adopted a new constitution specifically banning all taking of life and lawyers are now drafting revisions to its legal code replacing the maximum criminal sentence of death by firing squad with long prison term
- JANUARY 29, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
INDONESIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SAUDI ARABIA FOR MURDER
Metro TV station reported that an Indonesian convict, identified as Zaenal...
- JANUARY 29, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER
a local court has convicted and sentenced a 25-year-old youth to death for raping a minor girl and murdering her two years ago, on the basis of circumstantial evidence.
- JANUARY 29, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF ONE, ACQUITS 2 IN DEATH ROW
the Indian High Court confirmed the death sentence of a MA Kader and life imprisonment of his wife Runa Kader, but acquitted his two brothers-in-law.
- JANUARY 29, 2007New YorkDEATH PENALTY
a federal jury sentenced Ronell Wilson...
a federal jury sentenced Ronell Wilson...
- JANUARY 28, 2007IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN PUBLICLY HANGS MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER
an Iranian man, Baqer Sajadi, 36, convicted of murdering two people has been publicly hanged in Natanz according to newspaper reports.
- JANUARY 27, 2007PakistanDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING DAUGHTERS
a judge sentenced Mohammad Mukhtar to death for stabbing his two daughters to death while they were asleep.
- JANUARY 27, 2007KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN KUWAIT FOR MURDERING FAMILY
a Shiite Muslim in Kuwait who shot dead his wife and two children after he was "ordered" to do so in a dream by Imam Al-Mehdi, his faith's most revered cleric, was sentenced to death.
- JANUARY 26, 2007NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE EXECUTES MEN FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Singapore has executed two African men for drug smuggling after rejecting appeals for clemency by Nigeria's president, the UN and rights groups. Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, of Nigeria, and 35-year-old Okeke Nelson Malachy, a stateless African, were hanged
- JANUARY 26, 2007NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIAN SUPREME COURT ACQUITS MAN OF DEATH SENTENCE AFTER 15 YEARS
15 years after he was sentenced to death for murder, a police corporal, Mr. Sunday Udosen has been set
- JANUARY 26, 2007EthiopiaDEATH PENALTY
THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER DEADLY ETHIOPIA RELIGIOUS RIOTS
an Ethiopian court has sentenced three people to death and jailed five others for life over the killing of six people during religious riots last year, the state-run media said
- JANUARY 26, 2007KyrgyzstanDEATH PENALTY
KYRGYZ COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR MURDER
Andrey Zemerov, who was accused of committing two murders, was sentenced to death in the Lenin district court in Bishkek according to the Delo No newspaper.