Archive timeline
2003
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2003, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2003
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Yuan Gang, a convicted police killer, was put to death...
Yuan Gang, a convicted police killer, was put to death in eastern China's Zhejiang province immediately after the provincial high court issued the execution order, state press reported
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence of Kazumi Taga, a 53 year old Japanese...
The death sentence of Kazumi Taga, a 53 year old Japanese man, was reduced to life in prison through a plea bargain after he admitted to killing his wife and daughter
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Shinji Mukai, a 42 year old Japanese man convicted...
Shinji Mukai, a 42 year old Japanese man convicted of murdering three people, including a mother and her child, was executed by hanging in what was Japan's first execution in a year
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Eight members of a gang specializing in highway robberies...
Eight members of a gang specializing in highway robberies were executed in central China's Henan province, state media said
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
The death sentence of a Japanese man was reduced to...
The death sentence of a Japanese man was reduced to life in prison through a plea bargain after he admitted to killing his wife and daughter in 2000
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International Japan denounced the Justice Ministry's...
Amnesty International Japan denounced the Justice Ministry's latest execution of a prisoner, the third person to be hanged under Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama, which also drew a lawmaker protest
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2003ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
A woman convicted of killing her husband of 17 years...
A woman convicted of killing her husband of 17 years was cleared after the Pima County Attorney's Office admitted its prosecutor intentionally withheld documents that could have helped her case
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2003North CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
Henry Lee Hunt, 58, was pronounced dead at 2:17 a
Henry Lee Hunt, 58, was pronounced dead at 2:17 a
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Lagos states Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, worried by...
Lagos states Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, worried by the incessant cultist clashes in the state's tertiary institutions, particularly Lagos State University, disclosed the introduction of capital punishment to any student cultist apprehended
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Jahangir Hossain Bhuiyan was sentenced to death in...
Jahangir Hossain Bhuiyan was sentenced to death in absentia by the District and Sessions Court in Chandpur, Bangladesh, for killing his two sisters by throwing them into the Meghna river
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Muslim Right Congress warned that the proposed...
The Muslim Right Congress warned that the proposed abolition of death penalty was aimed at allowing the killers of the former Attorney - General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige to escape the hangman's noose
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
Imam Samudra, the Islamic militant who masterminded...
Imam Samudra, the Islamic militant who masterminded the bombing of two Bali nightclubs which killed 202 people, was sentenced to death
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003AustraliaDEATH PENALTY
The Australian government welcomed the conviction and...
The Australian government welcomed the conviction and death sentence imposed on Bali bomber Imam Samudra
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
"The subject of capital punishment is controversial...
"The subject of capital punishment is controversial and emotional," wrote Gabriel Osu in the Vanguard, "it is no longer considered as an appropriate form of punishment for murder or other serious crimes because it continues the cycle of violence; it is no
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
The Australian government welcomed the conviction and...
The Australian government welcomed the conviction and death sentence imposed on Bali bomber Imam Samudra
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was reported...
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was reported as advocating the gradual abolition of the death penalty, urging that his position be explained to the public
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Larry Hayes, 54, was executed tonight for the 1999...
Larry Hayes, 54, was executed tonight for the 1999 murders of his wife and another woman
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
Hearings ordered for 10 on death row
Hearings ordered for 10 on death row
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
With the ratification on 9 September 2003 of the 6th...
With the ratification on 9 September 2003 of the 6th Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms the death penalty can only be applied in times of war or in the imminence of war
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
Armenia's 131-seat national assembly on September 9,...
Armenia's 131-seat national assembly on September 9, 2003 voted to unconditionally abolish the death penalty in peacetime
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
Nasser Shiragha, the head of a convicted gang of armed...
Nasser Shiragha, the head of a convicted gang of armed robbers, was hanged in Tehran, the official Iran paper reported, adding that 11 other members of the group would also soon be executed
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
The Armenian parliament voted to abolish the death...
The Armenian parliament voted to abolish the death penalty after the country came under pressure from the Council of Europe to meet its obligations to international treaties
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003ArmeniaDEATH PENALTY
"By ratifying Protocol No
"By ratifying Protocol No
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Lien Khui Thin and Nguyen Tuan Phuc, respectively former...
Lien Khui Thin and Nguyen Tuan Phuc, respectively former director and chairman of executive board of Epco company, had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, court officials said
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported by the China Daily that people involved...
It was reported by the China Daily that people involved in the illegal production, trade, transportation and storage of toxic chemicals would face severe legal punishment, including the death penalty, from October 1
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003IranDEATH PENALTY
The Union of Kurdistan Revolutionaries (UKR), an Iranian...
The Union of Kurdistan Revolutionaries (UKR), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, accused Turkey of handing over 16 Iranian Kurdish dissidents to the Tehran government, putting their lives at risk
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
The Union of Kurdistan Revolutionaries (UKR), an Iranian...
The Union of Kurdistan Revolutionaries (UKR), an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, accused Turkey of handing over 16 Iranian Kurdish dissidents to the Tehran government, putting their lives at risk
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian Abdul Hafid Ouari, convicted of smuggling...
Nigerian Abdul Hafid Ouari, convicted of smuggling cocaine into Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded in the Saudi city of Jeddah
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Nigerian Abdul Hafid Ouari and Pakistani national Habibullah...
Nigerian Abdul Hafid Ouari and Pakistani national Habibullah Gholam, convicted of respectively smuggling cocaine and heroin into Saudi Arabia, were publicly beheaded in the city of Jeddah
- SEPTEMBER 8, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Pakistani national Habibullah Gholam, convicted of...
Pakistani national Habibullah Gholam, convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia, was publicly beheaded in the Saudi city of Jeddah