Archive timeline
2011
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2011, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2011
- JUNE 10, 2011AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Judge Larry Anderson sentenced Tawuan Townes, 20, black, to death
USA - Alabama. Judge Larry Anderson sentenced Tawuan Townes, 20, black, to death
JUNE 10, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: SURGE IN EXECUTIONS IN RECENT WEEKS
Saudi Arabia has seen a significant increase in executions in the last six weeks, with at least 27
- JUNE 9, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR GOLD RAIDER
Zhang Degang, 33, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for the September 8, 2010, robbery of a hypermarket in Minhang District, worth 1.01 million yuan, the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court was told.
- JUNE 9, 2011United StatesDEATH PENALTY
EP OPPOSES DEATH SENTENCE TO BE IMPOSED BY US MILITARY COURT
the European Parliament urged US authorities not to impose the death penalty on Saudi
- JUNE 9, 2011IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO MEN HANGED IN PUBLIC
Two men were hanged in public in Neyshabur (northeastern Iran) early this morning.
- JUNE 9, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE
a Saudi court sentenced an unidentified Pakistani to death for raping a girl and filming her for blackmail. Police arrested the bus driver in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah after the university student complained that he raped her inside the universit
- JUNE 9, 2011ItalyDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ: TAREQ AZIZ'S SON- END MY FATHER'S SUFFERING
Sentenced to hang in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's ex chief of diplomacy Tareq Aziz has
- JUNE 9, 2011European UnionDEATH PENALTY
USA - Georgia. The European Union's foreign policy chief is calling on Georgia to lift the death sentence of Troy Davis.
USA - Georgia. The European Union's foreign policy chief is calling on Georgia to lift the death sentence of Troy Davis.
- JUNE 9, 2011NevadaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Nevada. Governor vetoes bill calling for study of death penalty costs
USA - Nevada. Governor vetoes bill calling for study of death penalty costs
- JUNE 8, 2011DEATH PENALTY
OHIO (USA): GOVERNOR KASICH GRANTS CLEMENCY TO HAWKINS
Ohio Governor John Kasich, 59, white, Republican, granted clemency to Shawn
- JUNE 8, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE SENTENCED TO DIE FOR MONGOL HERDER'S DEATH
A Chinese truck driver was sentenced to death for killing an ethnic Mongol herder by
- JUNE 8, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR 10 IN ETAH ‘HONOUR KILLING' CASE
in Etah, India, Additional Sessions and Special Judge (anti-dacoity) RB Sharma sentenced 10 people to death for murdering Rameshpal Singh, Udaypal Singh alias Bhura, and Vidya in an honour killing in Bilkhatra village on November 13, 2008.
- JUNE 8, 2011TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. Important clemency petition filed in behalf of Humberto Leal, a Mexican citizen
USA - Texas. Important clemency petition filed in behalf of Humberto Leal, a Mexican citizen
- JUNE 8, 2011DenmarkDEATH PENALTY
USA - Lundbeck said today that it was urgently seeking ways to stop prisons from using Pentobarbital
USA - Lundbeck said today that it was urgently seeking ways to stop prisons from using Pentobarbital
- JUNE 8, 2011Hong Kong SAR ChinaDEATH PENALTY
HONG KONG: PINOY SAVED FROM DEATH
an unidentified Filipino national was acquitted of double murder charges by the seven-man jury of the High Court of Hong Kong handed down a unanimous not guilty.
- JUNE 8, 2011OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Governor John Kasich, 59, white, Republican, granted clemency to Shawn Hawkins, 42, black
USA - Ohio. Governor John Kasich, 59, white, Republican, granted clemency to Shawn Hawkins, 42, black
JUNE 8, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER
Saudi Arabia beheaded a man convicted of murder in the capital Riyadh, the interior
JUNE 8, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: CONVICTED SERIAL RAPIST HANGED
Iran hanged a man convicted of serial rape in a prison in the southern city of Kerman
- JUNE 8, 2011New HampshireDEATH PENALTY
USA - New Hampshire. The House passed HB 147 to expand capital punishment.
USA - New Hampshire. The House passed HB 147 to expand capital punishment.
- JUNE 8, 2011PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. A Berks County jury sentenced Glenn Lyons, 45, black, to death
USA - Pennsylvania. A Berks County jury sentenced Glenn Lyons, 45, black, to death
- JUNE 7, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: FLORIST SENT TO THE GALLOWS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
florist G. Gobinanth Reddy, 30, from Butterworth...
- JUNE 7, 2011ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
the Daily Mail reported that President Rupiah Banda had commuted...
the Daily Mail reported that President Rupiah Banda had commuted...
JUNE 7, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: STUDENT EXECUTED OVER HIT-AND-RUN MURDER
China executed music student Yao Jiaxin, 21, for stabbing 26-year-old mother Zhang Miao to death after hurting her in a car crash on October 20, 2010.
- JUNE 7, 2011TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. A jury sentenced Albert Turner, 46, black, to death
USA - Texas. A jury sentenced Albert Turner, 46, black, to death
JUNE 7, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF DEATH SENTENCE ON DAS
The Gauhati High Court in India stayed the hanging of death row convict Mahendra
- JUNE 6, 2011DEATH PENALTY
DANES TRY TO BLOCK USE OF DRUG IN US EXECUTIONS
Lundbeck agrees to act on death penalty issue. Lundbeck, the Danish company embroiled
- JUNE 6, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH: 2 TO WALK GALLOWS
in Bangladesh, judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 in Dhaka sentenced Mohammad Rubel and Mithun Chanda to death in absentia.
- JUNE 6, 2011DenmarkDEATH PENALTY
USA - Lundbeck agrees to act on death penalty issue
USA - Lundbeck agrees to act on death penalty issue
JUNE 6, 2011IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: SUPREME COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCE IN 'PORN' CASE
Iran’s Supreme Court has quashed the death sentence for Saeed Malekpour, a web programmer
JUNE 5, 2011BangladeshDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: BANGLADESHI TRIO SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER OF COMPATRIOT
The Kuwait Criminal Court sentenced three Bangladeshis to death for the premeditated murder