Capital Punishment
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Madhya Pradesh man gets death penalty for killing wife, court terms crime 'rarest of rare'
Madhya Pradesh | Jun 26, 2025, 08:36 PM ISTThe court awarded the death penalty to Lala based on the evidence and arguments put forward by the prosecution and held that the crime was in the “rarest of rare” category, Additional District Prosecution Officer Kuldeep Singh Bhadoria said.
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Kolkata rape and murder case: Five times when rape-murder convicts get death sentence in India
India | Jan 20, 2025, 05:05 PM ISTKolkata rape and murder case: There is a growing demand for the death sentence for the Kolkata rape and murder convict, however, the court said that the case does not fall in the 'rarest of the rare' category. There is a split opinion over giving capital punishment in India.
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Trump vows capital punishment for rapists, murderers after Biden commutes most of federal death row
World | Dec 25, 2024, 12:31 PM ISTMost Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades.
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Aparajita Bill Seeks Death for Rapists: Can States Create Their Own Laws?
Originals | Sep 03, 2024, 10:57 PM ISTThe West Bengal Assembly passed a new legislation called the Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024. This bill aims to make the state a safer place for women and children, especially in the wake of a tragic incident that occurred at RG Kar Medical College.
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Kangana Ranaut says rapists should be 'hanged at intersections like Saudi'
India | Jan 09, 2021, 09:00 PM ISTKangana Ranaut says in countries like Saudi Arabia, those who commit crimes against women are hanged to death at intersections. We need to set similar examples in India.
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Hyderabad vet murder: Centre to send advisory to all states, Modi minister wants capital punishment
India | Nov 29, 2019, 03:42 PM ISTThe Centre on Friday said it will send an advisory to all states to take precautionary steps to check crime against women in the wake of the murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad.
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Strongly oppose capital punishment: Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
World | Jun 30, 2019, 08:41 PM ISTSirisena said on Wednesday he was committed to bringing back capital punishment for drug offenders, months after vowing a tougher line on spiraling narcotics-related crime.
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India abstains from voting on UNGA resolution on goods used for capital punishment, torture
World | Jun 29, 2019, 11:50 AM ISTThe 193-member UN General Assembly Friday adopted the resolution ‘Towards torture-free trade: examining the feasibility, scope and parameters for possible common international standards’ by a recorded vote of 81 in favour to 20 against, with 44 abstentions.
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Nithari killings: Surendra Koli sentenced to death in 10th case of rape, murder
India | Mar 02, 2019, 07:52 PM ISTA special CBI court announced the sentence against Koli, the domestic help of Noida businessman Moninder Singh Pandher.
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Haryana rape cases: 'Hurt' CM Khattar advocates capital punishment for culprits if girls below 12 raped
India | Jan 20, 2018, 06:57 PM IST“If such incidents of rape with girls below 12 prove to be true, we will make an act of capital punishment for the accused in this session”, Khattar said.
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Man gets capital punishment for rape, murder of 3-yr-old girl
India | Jun 18, 2016, 08:18 AM ISTRaigarh (Chhattisgarh): A fast-track court here today sentenced a 23-year-old man to death for sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge Yogesh Pareek convicted Lochan Srivas, a resident of
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With 95 already put to death, Saudi Arabia targetting 100 executions in first six months of 2016
World | Jun 03, 2016, 03:17 PM ISTRiyadh: In an unprecedented spike in country's capital punishment, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on course of executing over 100 people in first six months of 2016. The human right watchdog Amnesty International has warned
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Home Ministry against abolition of death penalty
India | Oct 04, 2015, 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Home Ministry is likely to reject Law Commission's recommendation for abolition of death penalty, maintaining that time was not ripe yet to remove it completely from the statute book keeping in mind
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Pakistan president rejects mercy pleas of six prisoners
World | Feb 20, 2015, 10:49 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain on Friday rejected appeals for clemency of six death row prisoners from the Sindh provice, media reported.Following the rejection of the mercy pleas, the Home Department of Sindh ordered the
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Pakistan lifts ban on capital punishment in terror cases
World | Dec 17, 2014, 02:31 PM ISTIslamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday lifted a ban on capital punishment in terrorism cases, a day after 132 children were slaughtered by Taliban guerrillas in an army-run school here.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif revoked the ban on
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Bangladesh SC upholds death sentence of Jamaat stalwart
World | Nov 03, 2014, 10:46 AM ISTDhaka: Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence handed down to a fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami stalwart for committing mass murder and crimes against humanity during the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan.The four-member Appellate Division of
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Parliament condemns Delhi bus gangrape, MPs demand capital punishment
National | Dec 18, 2012, 02:22 PM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 18: Members cutting across party lines in Lok Sabha today condemned that Delhi bus gangrape incident as "shameful" and demanded capital punishment for rapists. Even the Speaker Meira Kumar herself described the
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Delhi Court Gives Death Sentence To 3 For Honour Killing
India | May 12, 2011, 07:33 PM ISTNew Delhi, May 12: Taking a cue from the Supreme Court which favoured death sentence to those found guilty of honour killings, a Delhi court, in the first such case, has awarded capital punishment to