Archive timeline
2017
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2017, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2017
- APRIL 6, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Rodney Newberry. because it was not unanimous.
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Rodney Newberry. because it was not unanimous.
- APRIL 6, 2017ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Judge blocks execution of McGehee, 1 of 8 inmates set to die in 10 days
USA - Arkansas. Judge blocks execution of McGehee, 1 of 8 inmates set to die in 10 days
- APRIL 6, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Victor Guzman because it was not unanimous.
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Victor Guzman because it was not unanimous.
- APRIL 6, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Justin Heyne because it was not unanimous.
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Justin Heyne because it was not unanimous.
- APRIL 6, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Richard Robards because it was not unanimous.
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Richard Robards because it was not unanimous.
- APRIL 6, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Dane Abdool because it was not unanimous.
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence for Dane Abdool because it was not unanimous.
- APRIL 5, 2017ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Parole Board Recommends Clemency for Jason McGehee.
USA - Arkansas. Parole Board Recommends Clemency for Jason McGehee.
APRIL 5, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: INMATE EXECUTED AFTER SUFFERING HEART ATTACK
- APRIL 5, 2017MississippiDEATH PENALTY
USA - Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant signs HB 638 to add electrocution and nitrogen gassing as execution methods
USA - Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant signs HB 638 to add electrocution and nitrogen gassing as execution methods
- APRIL 4, 2017DEATH PENALTY
ARKANSAS CAN'T FIND ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS TO WITNESS BACK-TO-BACK EXECUTIONS
Over the course of 10 days in April, Arkansas plans to put to death 8 inmates.
- APRIL 4, 2017MaldivesDEATH PENALTY
MALDIVES: TWO MEN CONVICTED OF 2011 MURDER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The criminal court sentenced two men to death after handing down guilty verdicts over the murder of 25-year-old Ahmed Mirza Ibrahim in April 2011.
- APRIL 4, 2017AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Alabama. House votes HB32 to end judicial override.
USA - Alabama. House votes HB32 to end judicial override.
- APRIL 3, 2017DEATH PENALTY
FLORIDA (USA): GOV. SCOTT TAKES AWAY 21 MORE MURDER CASES FROM ANTI-DEATH-PENALTY PROSECUTOR
Florida's Republican governor took 21 more first-degree murder cases away from a Democratic prosecutor who has said she will no longer seek the death penalty.
- APRIL 3, 2017New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
NEW ZEALAND: LAWYER URGES COURT TO BLOCK EXTRADITION OF MURDER SUSPECT TO CHINA
A lawyer for a man facing extradition to China on murder charges told New Zealand’s High Court that the government in Wellington could not rely on assurances from China that the man would not be tortured or receive the death penalty.
- APRIL 3, 2017BahrainDEATH PENALTY
Bahrain's king approved the amendment to Article 105(b) of Bahrain's constitution granting military courts the right to try civilians, according to the official BNA news agency.
Bahrain's king approved the amendment to Article 105(b) of Bahrain's constitution granting military courts the right to try civilians, according to the official BNA news agency.
- APRIL 3, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Gov. Scott takes away 21 more murder cases from anti-death-penalty prosecutor.
USA - Florida. Gov. Scott takes away 21 more murder cases from anti-death-penalty prosecutor.
- APRIL 3, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness
USA - 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness
APRIL 3, 2017DEATH PENALTYUSA: EXECUTIONS DISPROPORTIONATELY INVOLVE PRISONERS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic child abu
- APRIL 2, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTY
EGYPT: PRELIMINARY DEATH SENTENCE ISSUED AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL MUSLIM PREACHER WAGDY GHONIM
A Cairo criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence against controversial Muslim preacher Wagdy Ghonim and two other men after they were convicted of inciting to murder security forces and Christians, Ahram Arabic website reported.
APRIL 2, 2017BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 2 GET DEATH SENTENCE IN BLOGGER RAJIB MURDER CASE
The High Court in Bangladesh upheld the trial court verdict that sentenced two people to death over the murder of blogger and Gonojagoron Mancha activist Ahmed Rajib Haider.
- APRIL 1, 2017ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions.
USA - Arkansas. Arkansas can't find enough volunteers to witness back-to-back executions.
APRIL 1, 2017TanzaniaDEATH PENALTYTANZANIA: BUNGE COMMITTEE TOUTS REVIEW OF DEATH PENALTY
The Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs has advised the government to review death penalty laws to allow death row prisoners who have been in prison for a long time to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
- MARCH 31, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence imposed of Ted Herring because of intellectual disability
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court vacated the death sentence imposed of Ted Herring because of intellectual disability
- MARCH 31, 2017DEATH PENALTY
MORE OHIO DEATH ROW PRISONERS EXONERATED OR REMOVED THAN EXECUTED
The 2016 volume of Attorney General Mike DeWine's "Capital Crimes Annual Report," released on Friday, said there have been 328 death sentences handed down in Ohio since 1981. Less than 20 % of those people have been put to death.
- MARCH 31, 2017South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
USA - South Carolina. Dylann Roof will plead guilty to state murder charges and will be sentenced to life without parole
USA - South Carolina. Dylann Roof will plead guilty to state murder charges and will be sentenced to life without parole
MARCH 31, 2017PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING FATHER
A sessions court in Pakistan sentenced a man to death for killing his father.
- MARCH 31, 2017OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. New report: More Ohio death row prisoners exonerated or removed than executed.
USA - Ohio. New report: More Ohio death row prisoners exonerated or removed than executed.
- MARCH 30, 2017IraqDEATH PENALTY
Man stoned to death for being gay by IS
30 March 2017: the Islamic State (IS) group militants executed a prisoner by stoning to death before throwing him off the roof of a high-rise building in Iraq's Mosul after discovering his sexuality.
- MARCH 30, 2017DelawareDEATH PENALTY
USA - Delaware. Ambrose Sykes was re-sentenced to life without parole.
USA - Delaware. Ambrose Sykes was re-sentenced to life without parole.
- MARCH 30, 2017OhioDEATH PENALTY
USA - Ohio. Donald Harvey, a serial killer convicted of killing 37 men and women died after he was beaten by another prison inmate,
USA - Ohio. Donald Harvey, a serial killer convicted of killing 37 men and women died after he was beaten by another prison inmate,