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
- MARCH 14, 2017DEATH PENALTY
TEXAS (USA): JAMES EUGENE BIGBY EXECUTED
James Eugene Bigby, 61, White, was executed. A Tarrant County jury sentenced Bigby to death in 1991 for the December 24, 1987 murders of Mike Trekell and his infant son, Jayson, 4-month-old.
- MARCH 14, 2017TexasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Texas. James Eugene Bigby, 61, White, was executed.
USA - Texas. James Eugene Bigby, 61, White, was executed.
MARCH 14, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FOUR PRISONERS EXECUTED ON DRUG RELATED CHARGES
Four prisoners were hanged at Darya, Urmia's central prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran), on drug related charges, according to the human rights news agency, HRANA.
- MARCH 13, 2017DEATH PENALTY
FLORIDA: JURIES TO REACH UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION FOR DEATH PENALTY
Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law a bill that requires Florida capital sentencing juries to reach a unanimous recommendation for death before a judge may impose the death penalty against a capital defendant.
- MARCH 13, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law a bill that requires capital sentencing juries to reach a unanimous recommendation
USA - Florida. Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law a bill that requires capital sentencing juries to reach a unanimous recommendation
- MARCH 13, 2017United StatesDEATH PENALTY
USA - Inventor of Midazolam Opposes Its Use in Executions.
USA - Inventor of Midazolam Opposes Its Use in Executions.
MARCH 13, 2017SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MILITANT BEHIND BOMBING SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Somali military court sentenced an Al-Shabaab militant to death and two others to 15 years in jail after convicting them of being behind a deadly bomb attack on November 26, 2016.
- MARCH 13, 2017ArkansasDEATH PENALTY
USA - Arkansas. State Has Postassium Chloride Needed for April Double Executions
USA - Arkansas. State Has Postassium Chloride Needed for April Double Executions
- MARCH 12, 2017IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN CONDITIONS DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENSES
Capital punishment will be removed for all drug-related offenses with the exception of 3 cases, vice-chairman of Parliament’s Judiciary Committee told MNA.
- MARCH 12, 2017ChinaDEATH PENALTY
China's court system concluded 45,000 graft cases in 2016, implicating 63,000 people, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Sunday.
China's court system concluded 45,000 graft cases in 2016, implicating 63,000 people, a work report of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said Sunday.
MARCH 12, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: 2 SECT LEADERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Iran has sentenced to death a man and a woman who it says had created a new sect, Tasnim news agency reported.
MARCH 12, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN ZAHEDAN
According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, three prisoners were hanged at Zahedan Central Prison in Iran's Sistan & Baluchestan province on drug related charges.
MARCH 11, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO KURDISH CITIZENS EXECUTED IN URMIEH PRISON
According to Kurdpa News agency two Kurdish citizens were executed last week in the back yard of Urmieh central prison.
- MARCH 10, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Nine sentenced to death
10 March 2017: a Congolese court sentenced to death nine rebels convicted of having participated in the violence that has caused more than 1000 deaths in the east of the country since October 2014.
MARCH 10, 2017Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA: MAN WHO ABDUCTED AND RAPED MINOR GIRLS EXECUTED
A Saudi man who kidnapped and raped minor girls was executed in the city of Dammam, in the Eastern Province.
- MARCH 10, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The House passed HB 527 for unanimous death sentences
USA - Florida. The House passed HB 527 for unanimous death sentences
- MARCH 10, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court, citing Hurst, vacatied the death sentences of Lamar Brooks
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court, citing Hurst, vacatied the death sentences of Lamar Brooks
- MARCH 9, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Senate passed SB 280 that requires all 12 members of a jury to approve a death sentence.
USA - Florida. The Senate passed SB 280 that requires all 12 members of a jury to approve a death sentence.
- MARCH 9, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court granted relief to Howard Ault
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court granted relief to Howard Ault
- MARCH 9, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court granted relief to Charles Anderson
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court granted relief to Charles Anderson
- MARCH 9, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court denied relief to Dale Middleton.
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court denied relief to Dale Middleton.
- MARCH 9, 2017FloridaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court denied relief to Cary Michael Lambrix
USA - Florida. The Florida Supreme Court denied relief to Cary Michael Lambrix
MARCH 9, 2017EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO KILLED COPTIC SHOPKEEPER
A court in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria sentenced a man to death after he stabbed a Coptic liquor store owner to death.
MARCH 9, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC
An unidentified prisoner was reportedly executed in public on murder charges.
- MARCH 8, 2017KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Kenya: Mechanic sentenced to death for robbing woman 3 phones worth Sh21,000
8 March 2017: a 22-year-old mechanic was sentenced to death by a Kibera court for robbing a woman at her house in Kaberia, Riruta.
- MARCH 8, 2017OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. HB 1306, also known as the Blue Lives Matter bill, passed the House
USA - Oklahoma. HB 1306, also known as the Blue Lives Matter bill, passed the House
MARCH 8, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: CELEBRITIES, CHARITY SOCIETY SAVE YOUNG MAN FROM HANGING
A group of Iranian celebrities in association with a charity society finally managed to commute the death sentence of a young man who had committed murder when he was a teenager, Khabaronline reported.
MARCH 8, 2017SudanDEATH PENALTYSUDAN: PRESIDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR PARDONS 259 REBELS
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir pardoned 259 rebels captured in fighting with government forces, including dozens who had been sentenced to death.
- MARCH 7, 2017PhilippinesDEATH PENALTY
PHILIPPINES: HOUSE OKS RESTORING DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG CASES
The Philippine House of Representatives approved a bill to restore the death penalty by hanging, lethal injection or firing squad for drug offenses despite opposition from the influential Roman Catholic church and human rights groups.
- MARCH 7, 2017DEATH PENALTY
USA: REPORTS FIND RECORD NUMBER OF EXONERATIONS IN 2016, BLACKS MORE LIKELY TO BE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED
Reports released by the National Registry of Exonerations found record numbers of exonerations and wrongful convictions involving official misconduct in 2016, and striking evidence of racial bias both in the wrongful convictions themselves and in the time