Archive timeline
2000
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2000, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2000
- JULY 20, 2000United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
ITV's Teletext service conducted its own phone-in poll...
ITV's Teletext service conducted its own phone-in poll on whether the murderers of children should be hanged
- JULY 20, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two Burmese men were sentenced to death by the Criminal...
Two Burmese men were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for a series of crimes that culminated in five murders
- JULY 20, 2000UkraineDEATH PENALTY
Parliamentarians stated in the 'Kievskiye Vedomosti'...
Parliamentarians stated in the 'Kievskiye Vedomosti' newspaper that they thought the parliamentary procedure rules and the constitution were violated during the ratification of the No 6 protocol, which abolished the death penalty in Ukraine
- JULY 20, 2000VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A court in Ho Chi Minh City passed a death sentence...
A court in Ho Chi Minh City passed a death sentence on Nguyen Van Son, former deputy general director of the Gia Dinh Commercial Bank, for fraud
- JULY 20, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Justice Ministry commission made amendments to...
The Justice Ministry commission made amendments to the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) preliminary draft it had prepared in 1997
- JULY 20, 2000KuwaitDEATH PENALTY
UN Human Rights Committee considered a report presented...
UN Human Rights Committee considered a report presented by the Government of Kuwait on the fulfilment of its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights including the question of capital punishment
- JULY 20, 2000OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
Gregg Francis Braun, 39, was executed by lethal injection
Gregg Francis Braun, 39, was executed by lethal injection
- JULY 19, 2000ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Geng Yongxiang, 53, a former customs official in east...
Geng Yongxiang, 53, a former customs official in east China's Zhejiang Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes worth 1
- JULY 19, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya District Court sentenced 56-year-old Yoshimi...
The Nagoya District Court sentenced 56-year-old Yoshimi Toyoda to death for murdering Kazuko Nakano, 44, and Hide Shinoda, 62 in 1996 and 1997
- JULY 18, 2000PortugalDEATH PENALTY
Portugal was among a number of European Union members...
Portugal was among a number of European Union members to protest with Germany against the death sentences issued to four Chinese who burgled and then murdered the automobile executive Jurgen Pfrang and his family last April in the eastern city of Nanjing
- JULY 18, 2000TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Mahmadrasul Sirojev was sentenced to death by the Supreme...
Mahmadrasul Sirojev was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Tajikistan
- JULY 18, 2000RwandaDEATH PENALTY
A former local administrator in Taba commune was sentenced...
A former local administrator in Taba commune was sentenced to death by a court in the central town of Gitarama for his role in the country's 1994 genocide
- JULY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
A Pakistani man, I'jaz Ali Ibrahim, was executed in...
A Pakistani man, I'jaz Ali Ibrahim, was executed in Jiddah Governorate for smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia
- JULY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Ibrahim Bin-Abdallah Bin-Muhammad al-Uthman, Abd-al-Ilah...
Ibrahim Bin-Abdallah Bin-Muhammad al-Uthman, Abd-al-Ilah Bin-Fahd Bin-Muhammad al-Twayyim, and Mishnan Bin-Mutlaq Bin-Ghanim al-Dawsari, were executed in Riyad for murdering and robbing a Saudi national, Ghannam Bin-Ghunayman Bin-Atiq al-Shammari
- JULY 18, 2000Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Mukhtiara Khadem Hussein, a Pakistani woman, was executed...
Mukhtiara Khadem Hussein, a Pakistani woman, was executed after she was convicted of drug trafficking
- JULY 18, 2000GermanyDEATH PENALTY
Germany protested the death sentence given to four...
Germany protested the death sentence given to four Chinese men for the murder of Jurgen Pfrang, a German executive with Daimler-Benz AG, his wife and their two children at their villa in Nanjing in April 2000
- JULY 18, 2000GuatemalaDEATH PENALTY
A poll conducted by a local newspaper indicated that...
A poll conducted by a local newspaper indicated that 80% of Guatemalans agree with the death penalty - which is also strongly supported by the main business organisations
- JULY 18, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
The mother of Rocco Barnabei met with the Minister...
The mother of Rocco Barnabei met with the Minister of Justice Fassino, and was received in his Montecitorio (parliament) study by parliamentary vice-president Alfredo Biondi
- JULY 17, 2000JapanDEATH PENALTY
Toru Toyoda, 32, and Kenichi Hirose, 36, two former...
Toru Toyoda, 32, and Kenichi Hirose, 36, two former leaders of Aum Shinri Kyo, were sentenced to death by hanging for murder and attempted murder for their roles in releasing sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation...
The head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Austrian Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner in Yerevan met lawmakers to discuss alternative military service, the abolition of capital punishment and the freedom of conscienc
- JULY 17, 2000ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Deputy parliament speaker Gagik Aslanyan speaking at...
Deputy parliament speaker Gagik Aslanyan speaking at a meeting with the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said that people and authorities in Armenia are unanimous in their understanding of the need to bring democrati
- JULY 17, 2000LebanonDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of prisoners sentenced to death for their...
Relatives of prisoners sentenced to death for their participation in clashes with the Lebanese Army in Dinnieh last January demonstrated outside the Mansouri Mosque in Tripoli
- JULY 17, 2000ItalyDEATH PENALTY
A press conference was held in Rome in which Jane Barnabei,...
A press conference was held in Rome in which Jane Barnabei, mother of death row prisoner Rocco Barnabei, together with Walter Veltroni (leader of the Democratic Left) and Fabrizio Vigni (member of Parliament who has followed the case for years) appealed a
- JULY 16, 2000Puerto RicoDEATH PENALTY
U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Casellas ruled that...
U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Casellas ruled that the death penalty for federal crimes does not apply in Puerto Rico because its people have no vote in federal elections
- JULY 16, 2000IranDEATH PENALTY
Mohammadreza Rowshan received 3 death sentences after...
Mohammadreza Rowshan received 3 death sentences after he was found guilty of killing three policemen, Ali Kiani, Alibaba Khosravi and Hamid Derafshi
- JULY 16, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Democratic Left Party and Motherland Party have...
The Democratic Left Party and Motherland Party have developed a formula to persuade another ruling partner, the Nationalist Action Party, to accept the abolition of the death sentence from the Turkish Penal Code
- JULY 15, 2000TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister Mesut...
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister Mesut Yilmaz has said that a bill to abolish the death penalty was to be put on the agenda in the new legislative term of the Turkish Parliament
- JULY 14, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
It was revealed by the Post Express that a total of...
It was revealed by the Post Express that a total of 72 Nigerians were executed by the Saudi Arabian government in the past eight years on charges of drug smuggling and armed robbery
- JULY 14, 2000YemenDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed three Yemeni men found guilty...
Saudi Arabia executed three Yemeni men found guilty of engaging in homosexual acts and molesting young boys
- JULY 14, 2000United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
The Cassation Court confirmed death sentences issued to N
The Cassation Court confirmed death sentences issued to N