Archive timeline
2003
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2003, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 546
- Countries where they were recorded
- 25
- News items in the archive
- 2,951
Latest news of 2003
The Nyala criminal court, Sudan, sentenced Issa Ismaeal...
The Nyala criminal court, Sudan, sentenced Issa Ismaeal Sabeel, a 27 year-old farmer living in Mahajrea, to death by hanging after convicting him of murder under Article 130 of the Penal Code
- DECEMBER 31, 2003UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Four hundred inmates are on the death row in Luzira...
Four hundred inmates are on the death row in Luzira Prisons, Uganda, Henry Tugume, the officer-in-charge of the prison, said
- DECEMBER 30, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court sentenced to death a 28-year-old father...
The High Court sentenced to death a 28-year-old father of three after finding him guilty of murdering a 30-year-old waiter
- DECEMBER 30, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced...
The Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang Siyuan to death for manslaughter
- DECEMBER 30, 2003NevadaDEATH PENALTY
In Carson City, the Nevada Supreme Court today granted...
In Carson City, the Nevada Supreme Court today granted a new penalty hearing for Edward G
- DECEMBER 30, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Life imprisonment as punishment will be introduced...
Life imprisonment as punishment will be introduced in Kazakhstan as from January 1, 2004
- DECEMBER 30, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Falun Gong cult follower who poisoned and killed...
A Falun Gong cult follower who poisoned and killed 15 innocent people was given death penalty by a court in east China's Zhejiang province, the website of the official news agency Xinhua said
- DECEMBER 30, 2003ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Pattani Provincial Court in Thailand sentenced...
The Pattani Provincial Court in Thailand sentenced Sakkariya Yimahama, a Muslim man, to death for killing a policeman in Pattani
- DECEMBER 30, 2003KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Kenyan police came under fire for the execution of...
Kenyan police came under fire for the execution of a 13-year-old boy, whom witnesses say was gunned down by police officers on Christmas Day
- DECEMBER 29, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
An ex-deputy police chief in southern Vietnam who shot...
An ex-deputy police chief in southern Vietnam who shot a Communist Party cadre with a machine gun during a meeting to punish him for being disorganised had been executed, officials said
- DECEMBER 29, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Hainan International Investment Group's former chairman...
Hainan International Investment Group's former chairman Li Yaoqi was executed in the Hainan provincial capital of Haikou after being convicted of amassing a huge fortune while his state-owned investment company went bankrupt, Xinhua news agency reported
- DECEMBER 29, 2003ZambiaDEATH PENALTY
Spare [1997 military coup leader] Captain Solo and...
Spare [1997 military coup leader] Captain Solo and all those on the death row, [opposition] Patriotic Front president Michael Sata urged [Zambian] President [Levy] Mwanawasa
- DECEMBER 29, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The Afghan ambassador to Australia strongly denied...
The Afghan ambassador to Australia strongly denied suggestions that asylum seekers sent home had been killed, and threatened legal action against those making such claims
- DECEMBER 29, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death...
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan sentenced to death Farhod Sharopov, 34, for murder
- DECEMBER 29, 2003OhioDEATH PENALTY
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- DECEMBER 29, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
District and high courts across Japan sentenced a record...
District and high courts across Japan sentenced a record 30 defendants to death in 2003, while 56 death-row inmates did not appeal their sentences or lost appeals as of December 29, according to Kyodo News calculations based on court data
- DECEMBER 29, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
A Chinese court sentenced a disgraced provincial vice...
A Chinese court sentenced a disgraced provincial vice governor to death for accepting bribes and because he could not account for assets which outstripped his income, state media said
- DECEMBER 29, 2003BoliviaDEATH PENALTY
Some 59 percent of Bolivians are in favour of the death...
Some 59 percent of Bolivians are in favour of the death penalty, according to a poll taken in Bolivia's four largest cities
- DECEMBER 29, 2003AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
The Afghan ambassador to Australia strongly denied...
The Afghan ambassador to Australia strongly denied suggestions that asylum seekers sent home had been killed, and threatened legal action against those making such claims
- DECEMBER 29, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Outspoken UK MP Desmond Swayne is leading the call...
Outspoken UK MP Desmond Swayne is leading the call for the restoration of the death penalty following the cold-blooded killing of a traffic police officer
- DECEMBER 29, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
The Nyala criminal court in Sudan sentenced Sanousi...
The Nyala criminal court in Sudan sentenced Sanousi Alhaj Ismaeal, a 27 year-old merchant from Hey Alwihda in Nyala, to death by hanging after convicting him for murder under Article 130 of the Penal Code (1991)
- DECEMBER 28, 2003RussiaDEATH PENALTY
An international human rights group asked the Russian...
An international human rights group asked the Russian prosecutor-general not to extradite three Tajik nationals arrested by Russian security forces earlier in 2003
- DECEMBER 28, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran's announcement that it had approved equal blood-money...
Iran's announcement that it had approved equal blood-money for Muslims and non-Muslim nationals was cheerfully acclaimed by the country's religious minorities
- DECEMBER 28, 2003TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
An international human rights group asked the Russian...
An international human rights group asked the Russian prosecutor-general not to extradite three Tajik nationals arrested by Russian security forces earlier in 2003
- DECEMBER 27, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Mamoru Takuma, who was earlier in 2003 sentenced to...
Mamoru Takuma, who was earlier in 2003 sentenced to death for murdering eight children at an elementary school in Osaka Prefecture in 2001, married a female supporter after his sentence was finalized
- DECEMBER 27, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Expediency Council (EC) approved a Majlis bill...
The Expediency Council (EC) approved a Majlis bill on equal "blood-money", or diyeh, for Muslim and non-Muslim Iranian nationals
- DECEMBER 27, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Farid Soleymani, member of the National Council of...
Farid Soleymani, member of the National Council of Iranian Resistance, political front of the armed opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization [MKO], said that the Iraqi Governing Council's decision to expel MKO members from Iraqi territory is "illegitimat
- DECEMBER 27, 2003New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
A Herald-DigiPoll survey of 400 people in New Zealand...
A Herald-DigiPoll survey of 400 people in New Zealand showed the majority support the death penalty if Saddam Hussein is found guilty of the murders attributed to his regime
- DECEMBER 26, 2003CanadaDEATH PENALTY
(continued from above) The sudden public interest -...
(continued from above) The sudden public interest - news of the group's plans has made headlines in Canada - has surprised some Muslims who say they already used sharia in divorce arbitration and other disputes
- DECEMBER 26, 2003CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Some Canadian Muslims will soon be able to use an Islamic...
Some Canadian Muslims will soon be able to use an Islamic tribunal to arbitrate civil disputes, bringing Muslim sharia law to a largely secular society and raising concerns about the extent to which it might be applied