Archive timeline
2015
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2015, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2015
- MARCH 24, 2015VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM PLANS TO REMOVE ROBBERY, DRUG CRIMES FROM DEATH PENALTY LIST
The Ministry of Justice has proposed abolishing the death penalty for a number of crimes including robbery and heroin smuggling, reducing it to life sentence at most.
MARCH 24, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: ANOTHER MURDER CONVICT HANGED IN MULTAN
a murder convict was hanged at the Multan Central Jail, bringing to 53 the number of convicts put to death since Pakistan resumed executions in December 2014 after Taliban militants gunned down 154 people, most of them children, at a military-run school i
MARCH 24, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: THREE PEOPLE EXECUTED FOR KUNMING RAILWAY STATION ATTACK
three people were executed for a mass stabbing that killed 31 people at a train station in Kunming in March 2014, China’s Supreme People’s Court announced in a microblog post, with authorities blaming the attack on separatists from mainly Muslim Xinjiang.
- MARCH 24, 2015OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted for House Bill 1879 to allow the use of nitrogen gas to execute death-row inmates.
USA - Oklahoma. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted for House Bill 1879 to allow the use of nitrogen gas to execute death-row inmates.
- MARCH 24, 2015United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) is urging its members to stop working with lethal drugs
USA - The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) is urging its members to stop working with lethal drugs
MARCH 24, 2015DEATH PENALTYUSA: PHARMACISTS ARE GETTING CLOSER TO CUTTING OFF ACCESS TO DEATH PENALTY DRUGS
The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP), the leading trade group for compound
- MARCH 24, 2015United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: TOP COURT REJECTS DEATH FOR CONVICTED KILLER
The UAE’s top court overturned a death sentence against a defendant convicted of murdering another man
MARCH 24, 2015SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: TWO FEDERAL GOVT SOLDIERS EXECUTED FOR CIVILIANS MURDER
Federal Government of Somalia’s military court executed two Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers for the murder of civilians, Garowe Online reported.
MARCH 24, 2015EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MILITARY COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCES ON 7 MILITANTS
An Egyptian military court upheld death sentences for seven people convicted of belonging to a Sinai-based militant group that bombed a military checkpoint in northern Cairo, a lawyer has said.
MARCH 24, 2015IraqDEATH PENALTYIRAQ: ISIS MILITANTS STONE COUPLE ACCUSED OF ADULTERY
Islamic State militants in Iraq publicly stoned a man and woman to death on charges of adultery, parading the victims in a public square in the northern city of Mosul, according to witnesses and an Iraqi military official.
- MARCH 23, 2015DEATH PENALTY
UTAH (USA): GOVERNOR HERBERT APPROVES EXECUTIONS BY FIRING SQUAD
Gov. Gary Herbert signed one of the 2015 Utah Legislature’s most controversial bills on Monday to
MARCH 23, 2015BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN TO WALK THE GALLOWS FOR KILLING WIFE
A tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced a man to death for killing his wife in 2008.
- MARCH 23, 2015MassachusettsDEATH PENALTY
USA - Massachusetts. Most Boston residents prefer life term over death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
USA - Massachusetts. Most Boston residents prefer life term over death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- MARCH 23, 2015PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. Derrick White had death sentence changed to life without parole
USA - Pennsylvania. Derrick White had death sentence changed to life without parole
- MARCH 23, 2015UtahDEATH PENALTY
USA - Utah. Gov. Gary Herbert signed a controversial bills to designate the firing squad as the state’s backup execution method.
USA - Utah. Gov. Gary Herbert signed a controversial bills to designate the firing squad as the state’s backup execution method.
MARCH 23, 2015SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALILAND: POLICE OFFICER SENTENCES TO DEATH OVER THE KILLING OF BUSINESSMAN
A police officer was sentenced to death in Somaliland following the murder of famous businessman in Qoton.
- MARCH 20, 2015SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS EXECUTE 'ETHIOPIA SPY'
The Al-Qaeda linked extremist group in Somalia executed a man for allegedly being a spy for the
MARCH 20, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BLASPHEMY
A judge in Pakistan's Lahore District and Sessions court sentenced Liaquat Ali to death for blasphemy.
- MARCH 20, 2015LouisianaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Louisiana. Lead Prosecutor Apologizes to Death Row Exoneree Glenn Ford
USA - Louisiana. Lead Prosecutor Apologizes to Death Row Exoneree Glenn Ford
- MARCH 19, 2015DEATH PENALTY
PENNSYLVANIA: 'STOP TRYING TO EXECUTE TERRY WILLIAMS,' SAYS WIDOW OF MAN HE MURDERED
Mamie Norwood, widow of a man death row inmate Terrence Williams was convicted of murdering, criticizes politicians who are using that case to challenge Gov. Tom Wolf's moratorium on the death penalty.
MARCH 19, 2015ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR ARSONIST OVER LAND DISPUTE
A man has been sentenced to death in east China's Shandong province for setting a fatal fire in a dispute over land rights in March 2014.
- MARCH 19, 2015FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. gave the death penalty to Dwayne Fitzgerald White
USA - Florida. Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. gave the death penalty to Dwayne Fitzgerald White
MARCH 19, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR MORE PRISONERS SENT TO THE GALLOWS
four more death row prisoners were executed in Rawalpindi and Mianwali. All convicts had been awarded the death sentence in non-terror related cases.
- MARCH 19, 2015PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Supreme Court upholds state's lethal-injection law.
USA - Arkansas. Supreme Court upholds state's lethal-injection law.
- MARCH 19, 2015ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Pennsylvania. 'Stop trying to execute Terry Williams,' says widow of man he murdered.
USA - Pennsylvania. 'Stop trying to execute Terry Williams,' says widow of man he murdered.
MARCH 19, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO MORE HANGED IN PUBLIC IN JIROFT
two men were hanged in public in the city of Jiroft, reported the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
MARCH 18, 2015BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RECHYTSA
the Rechytsa District Court sentenced Siarhei Ivanou, 21, to death on charges of murdering and raping a 19-year-old girl on 29 August 2013.
- MARCH 18, 2015AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. Akorn asks Alabama to return lethal injection drugs.
USA - Alabama. Akorn asks Alabama to return lethal injection drugs.
MARCH 18, 2015PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: NINE MORE CONVICTS HANGED IN PUNJAB JAILS
nine more murder convicts were hanged in six prisons of Pakistan, a day after 12 convicts were sent to gallows, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.
MARCH 18, 2015TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: KARAGWE MAN TO HANG OVER FRIEND'S MURDER
A resident of Karagwe District in Kagera Region, Mulokozi Anatory, is to be hanged for killing his friend