![]() | UP: Ghaziabad man gets death for rape and murder of two-year-old girlSpecial judge (Pocso Act), Mahendra Srivastava, termed the case as the “rarest of rare” while pronouncing the judgment and awarding the death sentence to the convict. |
![]() | Supreme Court acquits man facing death sentenceA trial court had in July 2015 awarded death penalty to Hari Om after convicting him in the case. Later, the high court had affirmed his conviction and death sentence imposed upon him. |
![]() | China court sentences ex-banker to death for $260m bribes, bigamyLai Xiaomin had abused his position in attempting to obtain the vast sum, a court in the northern city of Tianjin said, describing the bribes as "extremely large". |
![]() | Beant Singh killing: SC asks Centre about delay in proposal to commute Rajoana's death sentenceRajoana, a former Punjab Police constable, was convicted for his involvement in an explosion outside the Punjab civil secretariat that killed Beant Singh and 16 others in 1995. |
![]() | Kerala nurse, accused of chopping off her Yemeni husband into pieces, gets death sentenceMalayali nurse Nimisha Priya’s death sentence — for the murder of her husband, a Yemen national — was upheld on Tuesday evening by an appeals court in Sana’a. |
![]() | Pakistan Senator slams govt for not tabling in Parliment ordinance on foreign nationals' review petitionThe issue of the ordinance was raised in the Senate by Pakistan Peoples Party leader when a minister was about to present in the upper house the COVID-19 Ordinance. |
![]() | US carries out first federal execution in nearly 2 decadesThe execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims’ relatives and following days of legal wrangling and delays. |
![]() | Australia-China spat exposes dragon's hidden handsThe Chinese legal system is notoriously opaque and information on executions is considered a state secret. |
![]() | UP court sentences man to death for killing 6 peopleRam Pratap was awarded death sentence in connection with the murder of his brother and five family members over a property dispute. |
![]() | Death awarded to three for rape, murder of six-year-old girl in JharkhandThe trial has been concluded in just four days of hearing. On Monday, the hearing lasted till 9 p.m. in the night. P |
![]() | Death sentence: Apex court sets six-month deadline for appeal post Nirbhaya case delayAll the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case have adopted delaying tactics by filing one application after another seeking relief. |
![]() | Two awarded death sentence in a 24-year-old murder case in UP's MauOne Dubri Pandey was killed in Raikwahir village in Sarailakhansi on March 12, 1996 over a land dispute and his family members had registered an FIR against Pandey and Chaubey. |
![]() | Activists urge DCW chief Swati Maliwal to reconsider demand for death penalty for rape of minorsThe activists demanded that focus remains on ensuring the certainty and swiftness of punishment rather than the severity of punishment. |
![]() | #JusticeforJisha: Convict Ameerul Islam sentenced to death by Ernakulam sessions courtA hearing to decide the quantum of punishment to the lone convict found guilty in the rape and murder of a 30-year-old Dalit law student in Kerala last year, was held in a trial court here yesterday. |
![]() | ICJ has given no order on 'consular access' for Jadhav: Sartaj AzizAziz said that when it comes to cases involving the death penalty, the international court has always given a stay order. |
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