Hyderabad,Apr 26: German ambassador to India Michael Steiner said that his nation opposes death penalty in principle to all convicts, including former Khalistan Liberation Force terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar.The diplomat said that Germany's intension was
Washington, April 23: Lying in hospital, a badly injured surviving suspect of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured over 180 was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and
Ahmedabad, Apr 17: Gujarat Government will seek death penalty for Maya Kodnani, a former minister in Narendra Modi government, Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi and eight others when it files an appeal in the High
Chennai, Apr 13: Renewing his demand for abolishing death penalty, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today made a fresh pitch for a state cabinet meeting to adopt a resolution recommending commutation of the death sentence awarded
New Delhi, March 22: Convicts who are awarded death penalty cannot claim commuting of their sentence on the ground of delay in the judicial process, the Supreme Court said on Thursday. A bench of justices
New Delhi, Mar 6: The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notice on a petition seeking to declare unconstitutional new rules that allow that review petitions in death sentence cases should be heard in judges' chambers and
Dhaka, Mar 2: At least four people, including two teenagers, were killed in violence that rocked Bangladesh for the third day today as the death toll rose to 50 in clashes over death sentence given
Ballia (UP), Jan 3: RJD chief Lalu Prasad today met the family of Delhi gang-rape victim at their native village where he made a strong pitch for strict anti-rape laws with provision for capital punishment."Like
Islamabad, May 11: Leading rights activist Ansar Burney today appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari to convert the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh, facing gallows on charges of involvement in bomb blasts in
Cairo, Feb 23: The fate of Egypt's former strongman Hosni Mubarak will be decided on June 2, with the Egyptian court conducting his trial setting the final date for verdict after the ousted president turned
New Delhi, Feb 22: President Pratibha Patil, it seems, has been the most merciful of all presidents during the last three decades as she has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment during
Mumbai, Feb 10: The Bombay High Court today upheld the death sentence awarded to three members of Pakistan-based LeT, including a couple, in the 2003 twin Mumbai blasts that left 52 dead and quashed discharge
New Delhi, Sep 23: The Law Ministry today told a government panel on black money that imposing death penalty on economic offenders would be barbaric and take the nation backward.The opinion was communicated to CBDT
Chennai, Aug 30: Even as the Tamil Nadu Assembly today passed a unanimous resolution requesting the President to consider the review petitions against the hanging of the three Rajiv Gandhi killers, Janata Party president Dr
New Delhi, July 29 : Pakistani death row convict Ajmal Kasab has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court judgment confirming the death sentence slapped on him by a trial court for his
Dubai, Jun 15: A former United Arab Emirates football player has been sentenced to death in the stabbing death another man during a 2008 brawl.The Gulf News reports that the Abu Dhabi Supreme Court handed
New Delhi, May 9: Holding honour killings as a slur on the nation and a barbaric, feudal practice that ought to be stamped out, the Supreme Court today directed courts to view such cases as
New Delhi, Nov 26: The Supreme Court today sought CBI's reply on an appeal filed by Nithari serial rape and murder convict Surinder Koli against his death sentence imposed by a Ghaziabad court and confirmed
Mumbai, Sep 28: In a fresh development in the 26/11 terror attack case, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab today filed an appeal in Bombay High Court challenging death penalty awarded to him for killing 166 persons
New Delhi: In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday said underworld don Abu Salem can be tried for offences inviting death penalty even though the Portugal government had laid a pre-condition that he
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