Archive timeline
2009
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2009, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2009
- NOVEMBER 18, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH PENALTY
in Kasur, Pakistan, Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Ayub Marth sentenced Mohammad Shahid and Mohammad Amin to death and fined them Rs 600,000 each.
- NOVEMBER 18, 2009BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 2 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN BARGUNA, KUSHTIA
two people in Bangladesh were sentenced to death by separate courts.
- NOVEMBER 18, 2009JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, DOUBLE MURDER
Judges Atef Jaradat, Qassem Dughmi and Nahar Ghazo of the Amman Criminal Court in Jordan sentenced
- NOVEMBER 18, 2009TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Robert Thompson's execution be commuted to life in prison
USA - Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended that Robert Thompson's execution be commuted to life in prison
- NOVEMBER 18, 2009TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Danielle Simpson has been executed
USA - Texas. Danielle Simpson has been executed
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: ISLAMISTS STONE WOMAN TO DEATH FOR ADULTERY
Islamist rebels publicly stoned a woman to death and flogged a man 100 times for alleged adultery in southern Somalia.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ONE WOMAN AND TWO MEN HANGED
Three people, among them one woman, were hanged in the prison of Isfahan (Central Iran) early this
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: GALLOWS FOR EX-CLERK FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
former Johor council clerk Abd Latif Sakiman lost the appeal against his death sentence for drug trafficking at the Federal Court in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: DEATH FOR GANJA TRAFFICKING
a pirated VCD seller was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court. Ng Kam Wei, 31, allegedly trafficked 8,529.5g of ganja in Taman Selasih, Kulim, on December 22, 2005.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
KURDISH MPS URGE IRAN TO RECONSIDER DEATH PENALTY
Iran's Kurdish lawmakers asked the country's judiciary to reconsider issuing death sentences on people from the Kurdish minority fearing it was distancing the ethnic group from the regime.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: FIVE CONVICTED FOR MURDER
in Bahawalnagar, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions judge Ch. Nazir Ahmad sentenced five people to death for a dacoity-cum-murder case under Donga Bonga police station.
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: SUSPENDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR TIBETAN FOR SEPARATISM
a Tibetan was handed a suspended death sentence by the intermediate people’s Court of Nyarong (Chinese: Xinlong) County in China, said Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
NOVEMBER 17, 2009ZambiaDEATH PENALTYZAMBIA: 6 ROBBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
in Zambia, Lusaka High Court Judge Tamula Kakusa sentenced six men to death for the armed aggravated
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arizona. A jury sentenced Pete Van Winkle to death
USA - Arizona. A jury sentenced Pete Van Winkle to death
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009VirginiaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Virginia. Larry Bill Elliott was executed by electric chair
USA - Virginia. Larry Bill Elliott was executed by electric chair
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: MAN EXECUTED FOR CHILD RAPE
in Taif, Saudi Arabia, Saad Al-Hathli was executed for kidnapping and raping two schoolboys at a remote area outside the
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING BROTHER'S CHILDREN
in Jammu, India, Second Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Chatterji Koul sentenced Vijay Kumar to death for killing his brother's three children aged 8, 7 and 4 in front of their parents in 2000.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009BahrainDEATH PENALTY
BAHRAIN: MAN LOSES A THIRD APPEAL
Bahrain's Cassation Court upheld the death penalty against Bangladeshi national Jassim Abdulmanan
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. A jury has recommended Timothy Scott Boyle be sentenced to death
USA - Alabama. A jury has recommended Timothy Scott Boyle be sentenced to death
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. The U.S. Supreme Court restored a death sentence for Fernando Belmontes
USA - California. The U.S. Supreme Court restored a death sentence for Fernando Belmontes
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. A jury has sentenced Demontrell Miller to death
USA - Texas. A jury has sentenced Demontrell Miller to death
- NOVEMBER 16, 2009PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. A jury sentenced Harve Lamar Johnson to death
USA - Pennsylvania. A jury sentenced Harve Lamar Johnson to death
- NOVEMBER 15, 2009EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: 2 CHRISTIANS FACE DEATH PENALTY
two Egyptian Christians were sentenced to death for the murder of a Muslim man who married one of their relatives after she converted to Islam, a judicial source said
- NOVEMBER 15, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC
One man was hanged in a public square in the northern Iranian city of Qaemshahr in the Caspian Sea Mazandaran province, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan.
NOVEMBER 15, 2009ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: FORMER DEATH ROW DUO AWARDED COMPENSATION
two wrongly condemned death row inmates were granted state compensation in China after they were
- NOVEMBER 13, 2009OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Ohio's revised method of lethal injection gets the okay from the Governor
USA - Ohio. Ohio's revised method of lethal injection gets the okay from the Governor
- NOVEMBER 13, 2009NepalDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO NEPALI RAPE-AND-MURDER CONVICTS GET DEATH SENTENCE
in Ambala, India, two Nepali youths were sentenced to death for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl
- NOVEMBER 13, 2009MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING EX-UITM LECTURER
two friends were sentenced to death by the Shah Alam High Court in Malaysia for murdering UiTM lecturer Bakarudin Busu on February 12, 2002.
- NOVEMBER 13, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
in Pattoki, Pakistan, Additional district and sessions judge Manzoor Hussain Dogar awarded the death sentence and a fine of Rs 500,000 each to Shaukat Ali and Sher Ali.
- NOVEMBER 13, 2009PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: MAN GETS DEATH IN RAPE, MURDER CASE
Judge Rauf Ahmed Sheikh of the District Sessions Court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, awarded two death sentences to Ghulam Murtaza for kidnapping, raping and murdering Riffat Zahid and her son Danish Farooq in the limits of Gujar Khan Police Station.