New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharror's condemnation of death penalty after 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon's execution invited much criticism, not only from Bhartiya Janta Party but his own party as well.BJP strongly supported
New Delhi: Supreme Court today dismissed the curative petition of Central government to reconsider its verdict of commuting the death sentences of three convicts to life in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.On July 21, the Centre
New Delhi: A discussion on a law commission consultation paper on whether capital punishment should be retained or abolished on Saturday evoked a mixed response.While former President APJ Abdul Kalam, DMK leader Kanimozhi and former
CILICAP, Indonesia: Indonesia brushed aside last-minute appeals and executed eight people convicted of drug smuggling, according to foreign governments and local media reports Wednesday, although a Philippine woman was granted a stay of execution.The Indonesian
New Delhi: Senior advocate and MP Ram Jethmalani vehemently opposed the idea of abolishing death penalty in India adding that the possibility of incorrect convictions was very miniscule. He was addressing a symposium in the
Islamabad: Seven more convicts were hanged in Pakistan Tuesday taking the total number of executions to 17 since December last year, a media report said.The hangings took place in Karachi, Sukkur, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi jails,
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities tonight executed two men convicted for attacks on the army headquarters and former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, days after Pakistan lifted its moratorium on the death penalty.The two are among 17 terrorists
United Nations: The U.N. General Assembly human rights committee approved a resolution on Tuesday expressing deep concern about rights violations in Iran, including the “alarmingly high frequency” of the use of the death penalty.Support came
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court, while confirming the death penalty to Dec 16 gang rape convicts, on thursday said that such sentence is retained in law to remind such criminals in the society
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed the Centre's plea seeking review of its verdict holding that undue delay by the government in deciding mercy plea can be a ground to commute death sentence of
Chennai: DMK president M. Karunanidhi Wednesday reiterated his party's stand on the abolition of death penalty, on a day the Tamil Nadu government decided to release the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.Asked about
Dhaka: A special Bangladeshi tribunal today handed down death penalty to an influential leader of the main opposition BNP party for committing “crimes against humanity” during 1971 liberation war by siding with Pakistani troops. “He
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has refused permission to the Supreme Court-appointed SIT to file an appeal in a higher court seeking death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya riot case.This was
Indore: The local court in Badwani today gave death sentence to the bus driver, conductor and cleaner for the infamous Badwani bus fire incident in which 15 passengers were burnt to death in 2011.The court
New Delhi: Parents of the December 16 gangrape victim today demanded death for all the four men, convicted by a Delhi court, saying justice will not be done if they are not hanged."We have been
New Delhi: Life imprisonment is the rule and death penalty an exception and courts should also consider socio-economic compulsions such as poverty while awarding the extreme sentence to a convict, the Supreme Court today held."Poverty,
New Delhi: Cutting across party lines, political leaders Tuesday demanded death penalty for the four convicts in December 16 gangrape case, saying the punishment should set a precedent so that nobody dares to even think
Kolkata, June 17: Asserting that those who gang-raped and murdered a 20-year-old college student in North 24 Parganas district will be punished within a month, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said the administration
Ahmedabad, May 14: Under attack from right wing forces, Gujarat government today kept on hold its decision to seek death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and eight others in the 2002 Naroda
New Delhi, May 1: The Supreme Court Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty of Mahindra Nath Das who was convicted for two murders and whose mercy petition had been rejected by the president.The
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