Archive timeline
2004
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2004, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
Latest news of 2004
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004LibyaDEATH PENALTY
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called again for...
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called again for the death penalty to be banned in his country but has stressed the decision should not result from pressure from abroad
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
British national Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to...
British national Anthony Flannaghan was sentenced to death in Thailand
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004South CarolinaDEATH PENALTY
A federal jury sentences Branden Basham to death for...
A federal jury sentences Branden Basham to death for the November 2002 kidnapping and killing of Alice Donovan, 19
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Deon Tumblin, 27, was found hanging by a sheet in his...
Deon Tumblin, 27, was found hanging by a sheet in his death row cell in an apparent suicide, on Tuesday evening at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice outside Livingston, about 75 miles northeast of Houston
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004FloridaDEATH PENALTY
In Orlando, Orange County jurors recommend the death...
In Orlando, Orange County jurors recommend the death penalty for a man accused of strangling 2 people
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004ThailandDEATH PENALTY
North Warwickshire MP Mike O'Brien, a former UK Foreign...
North Warwickshire MP Mike O'Brien, a former UK Foreign Office minister, said he intendeded to intervene in the case of convicted drug trafficker Anthony Flanaghan
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that British embassy officials would...
It was reported that British embassy officials would consult with the lawyer of Anthony Flannaghan, a Briton sentenced to death on drug charges, to determine the best time to approach Thai officials in a bid to spare his life
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004ThailandDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that British embassy officials would...
It was reported that British embassy officials would consult with the lawyer of Anthony Flannaghan, a Briton sentenced to death on drug charges, to determine the best time to approach Thai officials in a bid to spare his life
- NOVEMBER 2, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
Lorenzo Morris, 52, was executed in the Huntsville "Walls" Unit.
Lorenzo Morris, 52, was executed in the Huntsville "Walls" Unit.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Ma Shungen, 45, was sentenced to death by the Shanghai...
Ma Shungen, 45, was sentenced to death by the Shanghai No 1 Intermediate People's Court, China, and Yang Shuxin was sentenced to 15 years
- NOVEMBER 1, 2004TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
a bill which envisages ratification of the Second Optional Protocol...
a bill which envisages ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- OCTOBER 31, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
A court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced to death...
A court in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sentenced to death in absentia Abdur Rahman alias Janu Mia after convicting him of killing his wife Sharifa Khatun in Chinki Astana village, Mirersharai, on April 21, following a family feud
- OCTOBER 30, 2004UgandaDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that former Ugandan internal affairs...
It was reported that former Ugandan internal affairs minister Chris Rwakasisi, on death row in Luzira Prison, had been moved from the condemned section to the general prison, Boma
- OCTOBER 30, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
A Fast Track Court in India sentenced to death Joy...
A Fast Track Court in India sentenced to death Joy alias Thomas, 41 and Chacko alias James, 38, for murdering a jeep driver in order to steal his vehicle
- OCTOBER 30, 2004BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
a speedy trial tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced to death Chandan Bachar
a speedy trial tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced to death Chandan Bachar
- OCTOBER 30, 2004HaitiDEATH PENALTY
Haiti's justice minister said he had ordered an investigation...
Haiti's justice minister said he had ordered an investigation...
- OCTOBER 29, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
See article of same date under 'the death penalty for...
See article of same date under 'the death penalty for terrorism'
- OCTOBER 29, 2004ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Chen Xiaomei, a Chinese widow who used rat poison to...
Chen Xiaomei, a Chinese widow who used rat poison to kill 10 guests at a funeral party for her husband, was executed
- OCTOBER 29, 2004JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Tokyo High Court scrapped a lower court ruling...
The Tokyo High Court scrapped a lower court ruling that sentenced Masahito Sakamoto to life imprisonment for brutally murdering a girl then demanding ransom from her family, and ordered that he be executed for his crime
- OCTOBER 29, 2004DEATH PENALTY
Louise Harris, facing a death sentence for the murder-for-hire slaying...
Louise Harris, facing a death sentence for the murder-for-hire slaying...
- OCTOBER 28, 2004DEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament expressed alarm at the deterioration...
The European Parliament expressed alarm at the deterioration in the area of human rights in Iran, in particular those relating to press freedom and the death penalty
- OCTOBER 28, 2004IranDEATH PENALTY
The European Parliament expressed alarm at the deterioration...
The European Parliament expressed alarm at the deterioration in the area of human rights in Iran, in particular those relating to press freedom and the death penalty
- OCTOBER 28, 2004HaitiDEATH PENALTY
Four young men were executed in a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood...
Four young men were executed in a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood in Haiti by men witnesses identified as police officers
- OCTOBER 28, 2004CanadaDEATH PENALTY
Canadian authorities agreed to review a 45-year-old...
Canadian authorities agreed to review a 45-year-old death sentence case against a 14-year-old found guilty of raping and murdering a classmate
- OCTOBER 27, 2004KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Alleged beatings and worsening conditions have claimed...
Alleged beatings and worsening conditions have claimed the lives of at least 56 inmates in Meru prison in eastern Kenya since January, the Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU), a non-governmental watchdog, said
- OCTOBER 27, 2004IndiaDEATH PENALTY
India's eastern state of Bihar was considering training...
India's eastern state of Bihar was considering training prisoners to become hangmen so it could deal with the convicts it had on death row, State Jail Minister Raghvendra Pratap Singh said
- OCTOBER 27, 2004AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
An Afghan court sentenced to death three Afghans convicted...
An Afghan court sentenced to death three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in the north-eastern province of Kunduz in June 2004, Supreme Court Judge Abdul Bari Bakhtyari said
- OCTOBER 27, 2004VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Nguyen Van An was sentenced to death for murdering...
Nguyen Van An was sentenced to death for murdering his boss in southern Vietnam
- OCTOBER 27, 2004TexasDEATH PENALTY
a Comanche County jury sentences a man convicted of 3 counts of capital murder to death.
a Comanche County jury sentences a man convicted of 3 counts of capital murder to death.
- OCTOBER 27, 2004United StatesDEATH PENALTY
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has urged U.S. House and Senate conferees...
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has urged U.S. House and Senate conferees...