Archive timeline
2006
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2006, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 5,688
- Countries where they were recorded
- 42
- News items in the archive
- 2,021
Latest news of 2006
CHINA. MAN EXECUTED FOR RAPE, MURDER OF CHILDREN
Gong Runbo, 33, was executed in northeast China.
- DECEMBER 30, 2006DEATH PENALTY
the state Supreme Court overturned Allen Eugene Gregory 's death penalty...
the state Supreme Court overturned Allen Eugene Gregory 's death penalty, saying evidence from his rescinded rape convictions and a prosecutor's misconduct require a new sentence.
- DECEMBER 30, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED
Saddam Hussein was executed at dawn following his conviction by an Iraqi court for crimes against humanity.
- DECEMBER 30, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. MAN EXECUTED FOR BEATING POLICEMAN TO DEATH
Zhou Chuanquan, convicted of beating a policeman to death...
- DECEMBER 30, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. TWO EXECUTED FOR BLASTS AT INTERNET CAFES
China executed two men found guilty of causing explosions at two Internet cafes in central China that killed two people.
- DECEMBER 30, 2006NepalDEATH PENALTY
NEPAL CONDEMNS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, SADDAM EXECUTION
barely hours after the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed, Nepal’s government expressed its opposition to the death penalty, saying that capital punishment must be abolished worldwide.
- DECEMBER 29, 2006United StatesDEATH PENALTY
as 2006 draws to a close...
as 2006 draws to a close...
- DECEMBER 29, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINESE COURT SENTENCES 11 TO DEATH
a central Chinese court sentenced 11 people to death for their involvement in a range of gangster activities involving homicide and drug trading...
- DECEMBER 28, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
Iranian media reported that two men had been hanged.
Iranian media reported that two men had been hanged.
- DECEMBER 28, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
JAPANESE MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CHINA ON DRUG SMUGGLING CHARGES
a court in China sentenced a Japanese man to death on drug smuggling charges...
- DECEMBER 28, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. FARMER EXECUTED FOR TEMPLE KILLINGS
China executed a farmer for killing 10 people in a temple, including the abbot whom he believed had flirted with his wife.
- DECEMBER 28, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA SENTENCES SEVEN TO DEATH FOR GANG CRIME
ninety-seven members of a criminal gang were sentenced to death or prison terms ranging from 12 months to life on charges including murder, causing injury and drug trafficking in central China's Hunan Province.
- DECEMBER 28, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
UN RIGHTS CHIEF CALLS FOR RESTRAINT IN SADDAM CASE
the UN human rights chief called for restraint by Iraqi authorities over Saddam Hussein's death sentence, saying there were concerns about the fairness of the original trial.
- DECEMBER 27, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
FIDH ASKS NOT TO EXECUTE SADDAM
the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has asked Mr. Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq and the Iraqi Government not to ratify the Appeals Court’s decision to execute Saddam Hussein and requested a moratorium on the death penalty in Iraq.
- DECEMBER 27, 2006PakistanDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN. CONVICT EXECUTED IN ADIALA JAIL
a man convicted of murder was hanged in the Adiala Central Jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- DECEMBER 27, 2006ItalyDEATH PENALTY
INTINI CRITICISES SADDAM'S DEATH SENTENCE
Italy’s deputy foreign minister Ugo Intini stigmatised the news of Saddam Hussein's death sentence...
- DECEMBER 27, 2006ItalyDEATH PENALTY
ITALY. SADDAM: DEATH SENTENCE NEVER A SOLUTION, MASTELLA
"I express my firm and decisive 'no' to the death sentence, which can never be considered to be a solution...
- DECEMBER 26, 2006DEATH PENALTY
IRAQ. ITALIAN MP STARTS THIRST AND HUNGER STRIKE TO PROTEST SADDAM EXECUTION
Marco Pannella, a member of the European Parliament and leader of the Nonviolent Radical Party, started a thirst and hunger strike to protest the death sentence against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
- DECEMBER 26, 2006SyriaDEATH PENALTY
IRAQ HANDS DEATH SENTENCE TO THREE 'FOREIGN FIGHTERS'
an Iraqi court sentenced a Saudi, a Syrian and a Sudanese to death after finding them guilty of Al-Qaeda related terrorist offences, the US-led coalition in Iraq said.
- DECEMBER 26, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTY
THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN VIETNAM FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a court in northern Vietnam sentenced three people to death for drug trafficking, with a police officer getting a life sentence.
- DECEMBER 26, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING 5 BY LACING WINE LOSES RIGHT TO RETRIAL
the Nagoya High Court, Japan, revoked an earlier decision it made to retry Masaru Okunishi, an 80 year old man sentenced to death for fatally poising five people.
- DECEMBER 26, 2006VietnamDEATH PENALTY
VIETNAM. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the People's Court of Hanoi, Vietnam, sentenced two men to death, and passed life sentences on two others and jail terms of between one year and 30 years on six more for trafficking and transporting drugs.
- DECEMBER 26, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPANESE MINISTER VOWS MORE EXECUTIONS
Japan’s justice minister vowed to carry out more executions after the country’s first hangings in over a year, saying the vast majority of the public supported the death penalty.
- DECEMBER 25, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN HANGED FOR VIOLENT CRIMES, DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran hanged two men convicted of murder, armed kidnapping and drug trafficking, the ISNA news agency reported. One of the men was identified as Pordel B, convicted of murder during an armed clash as well as involvement in the armed trafficking of 15kg of
- DECEMBER 25, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN EXECUTES 4 PRISONERS BY HANGING
four Japanese inmates on death row were hanged, officials and news reports said, the first executions to take place in Japan since September 2005.
- DECEMBER 24, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. THREE MEN PUBLICLY HANGED IN FRONT OF CHEERING CROWDS
Iran publicly hanged three men convicted of drug trafficking and armed robbery in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern Sistan-e Baluchestan province, the ISNA news agency reported.
- DECEMBER 23, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 7-YR-OLD
an Additional District and Sessions court in New Delhi, India, sentenced to death Jiya Lal, an ice-cream vendor...
- DECEMBER 23, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF IN-LAWS
a woman has been sentenced to death by the Shanghai Higher People's Court...
- DECEMBER 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
two men, Mahmood and Mostafa...
two men, Mahmood and Mostafa...
- DECEMBER 22, 2006JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DEATH PENALTY UPHELD FOR MURDER
the Tokyo High Court, Japan, upheld a lower court-imposed death sentence on Soji Fujisaki, convicted of robbing and murdering two women in their 70s in January 2005 in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture.