Archive timeline
2014
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2014, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 3,545
- Countries where they were recorded
- 28
- News items in the archive
- 1,736
Latest news of 2014
- AUGUST 21, 2014CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. A jury choose death penalty for Kesaun Kedron Sykes
USA - California. A jury choose death penalty for Kesaun Kedron Sykes
- AUGUST 21, 2014LesothoDEATH PENALTY
Makhotso Molise, 47, one of the three murderers who brutally killed Senior Women Citizens
Makhotso Molise, 47, one of the three murderers who brutally killed Senior Women Citizens
AUGUST 21, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO PUBLIC HANGINGS
AUGUST 21, 2014GermanyDEATH PENALTYCHINA: GERMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER IN XIAMEN
a German was sentenced to death in China for the first time in modern history. The 36-year-old man was convicted of a double murder in Xiamen in 2010. Germany has vowed to stop the execution.
AUGUST 21, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SEVEN AL-SHABAAB MEMBERS RECEIVE DEATH PENALTY
AUGUST 20, 2014United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: NEW ANTI-TERROR LAW APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT
AUGUST 20, 2014ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: RAILWAY OFFICIAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
AUGUST 19, 2014LibyaDEATH PENALTYLIBYA: EGYPTIAN PUBLICLY EXECUTED BY ISLAMIC MILITANTS IN A FOOTBALL STADIUM
AUGUST 19, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: 3 MILITANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH, 26 JAILED ON TERRORISM CHARGES
AUGUST 19, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: ANOTHER PRISONER BEHEADED FOR MURDER
AUGUST 18, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: ELEVEN PEOPLE HANGED IN KARAJ, A MAN EXECUTED IN PUBLIC IN MIANEH
AUGUST 18, 2014UkraineDEATH PENALTYUKRAINE: DONETSK SEPARATISTS INTRODUCE DEATH PENALTY FOR TREASON
AUGUST 18, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: THE WAVE OF EXECUTIONS CONTINUES, ANOTHER FOUR BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Saudi Arabia beheaded four nationals from the same family in the city of Najran for drug trafficking, amid a surge in executions in the country since the end of Ramadan.
- AUGUST 17, 2014OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Ohio Had Warnings About Lethal Drugs; State's Expert Witness Withdraws.
USA - Ohio. Ohio Had Warnings About Lethal Drugs; State's Expert Witness Withdraws.
- AUGUST 17, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO SAUDIS BEHEADED FOR MURDERING COMPATRIOTS
AUGUST 17, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FORMER ARMY SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SOMALILAND
- AUGUST 15, 2014IndianaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Indiana. Judge Susan Orth sentenced William Clyde Gibson to death
USA - Indiana. Judge Susan Orth sentenced William Clyde Gibson to death
- AUGUST 15, 2014FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Thane Covert formally sentenced Ralph Wright to death
USA - Florida. Judge Thane Covert formally sentenced Ralph Wright to death
- AUGUST 15, 2014FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Charles Arnold ruled Raymond Curtis Bright, 60, Black, should get a new penalty phase
USA - Florida. Judge Charles Arnold ruled Raymond Curtis Bright, 60, Black, should get a new penalty phase
AUGUST 15, 2014IndonesiaDEATH PENALTYINDONESIA: GOVERNMENT SAVES 190 NATIONALS FROM DEATH SENTENCE
AUGUST 15, 2014AfghanistanDEATH PENALTYAFGHANISTAN: FIVE CIVILIANS HANGED IN KAJAKI DISTRICT OF HELMAN
- AUGUST 14, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES TWO MEN IN LOWER JUBA
- AUGUST 14, 2014MaliDEATH PENALTY
the Court of Assizes of Bamako sentenced four people – Bassidiki Touré, Souleymane
the Court of Assizes of Bamako sentenced four people – Bassidiki Touré, Souleymane
- AUGUST 14, 2014CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - California. Jury recommends death penalty for Angel Esparza
USA - California. Jury recommends death penalty for Angel Esparza
AUGUST 14, 2014VietnamDEATH PENALTYVIETNAM: 6 GET DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
- AUGUST 14, 2014Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: TWO PEOPLE BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MURDER
AUGUST 14, 2014IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SISTERS MAY BECOME FIRST EVER WOMEN TO BE HANGED IN THE COUNTRY
the Mumbai Mirror said two sisters from Kolhapur in Maharashtra State, who were sentenced to death in 2001 for kidnapping 13 children and killing nine of them, are likely to become the first ever women in India to be hanged after President Pranab Mukherje
- AUGUST 13, 2014DEATH PENALTY
- AUGUST 13, 2014IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: FOUR PRISONERS HANGED IN TWO DIFFERENT IRANIAN PRISONS
AUGUST 12, 2014IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: A 22-YEAR OLD MAN HANGED IN BIRJAND