President Pranab Mukherjee has commuted the death sentence of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar in1992.
Twenty six people, including a former city councillor extradited from India, were today sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court for brutal murders of seven persons in Narayanganj in 2014.
A special women's court in Mumbai today sentenced 26-year-old Ankur Lal Panwar to death for murdering Delhi native Preeti Rathi in 2013 by throwing acid at her
Dhaka: A two-day nationwide shutdown called by the Jamaat-e-Islami began today in Bangladesh against a Supreme Court verdict upholding the death penalty for its chief for the 1971 war crimes. Hours after the court on
Dhaka: Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence it handed down to chief of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami over crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War with Pakistan. The four-member Appellate
Dhaka:Top leader of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami today faced a major setback after the Supreme Court rejected his final plea to review his death sentence it earlier handed down over war crimes during
Kolkata: Three convicts of the sensational Kamduni gang rape and murder of a 21-year-old college student over two years ago were sentenced to death on Saturday by a city court while three others got life
New Delhi: Death sentence of 306 convicts has been commuted by successive presidents so far out of total 437 such mercy petitions.This was disclosed by the Law Commission, which has given a chart of mercy
New Delhi: The Law Commission, in a report released on Monday, recommended India abolish the death penalty, with the exception of terror-related offences, saying that sending a convict to the gallows has lost its relevance
Tripoli, Libya: A court in Libya on Tuesday sentenced a son of Moammar Gadhafi to death by firing squad after convicting him of murder and inciting genocide during the 2011 uprising.The Tripoli court that sentenced
New Delhi: Supreme Court has said that execution of death row convicts cannot be carried out in an arbitrary, hurried and secret manner.The top court, while observing that convicts also have a right to dignity,
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian fishmonger was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing two British medical students.A judge pronounced the sentence after finding Zulkipli Abdullah guilty of killing Aidan Brunger and Neil Dalton, both 22,
Cairo: An Egyptian court today sentenced Mohamed Badie, Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, and 13 other senior members of the banned group to death for inciting violence and chaos against the State during the 2013 upheaval.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today extended till October 29 the stay on execution of death sentence of Nithari rapist-cum-serial killer Surinder Koli. A bench headed by justice H L Dattu posted the case for hearing
Meerut: In a fresh development in Nithari serial murder case, the Supreme Court stayed the execution of death sentence awarded to Nithari rapist-cum-serial killer Surinder Koli for one week.SHM Rizvi, Superintendent, Meerut Jail, confirmed that
New Delhi: The city police today told the Delhi High Court that Vikas Yadav and two others, convicted for killing Nitish Katara in 2002, deserve death penalty as the offence was “pre-meditated” and committed in
Morena (MP): In a landmark judgement, a Sessions Court in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district awarded death sentence to a youth for throwing acid on a woman.Additional Sessions Judge at Ambah in the district KC Gupta
Moradabad: In remarks that raised a storm, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said Thursday the death penalty in rape cases was "unfair" as boys make "mistakes".At a Lok Sabha election rally in Moradabad, the
Durg : A court here Thursday awarded death penalty to seven people on charges of kidnapping and murdering a two-year-old boy as part of a tantrik ritual in 2010.District and Sessions Judge Gautam Chaurariya awarded
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