The convicts along with slain terrorist Mohammad Saifullah had set up a hideout in the Haji Colony area of Lucknow and had prepared and tested some improvised explosive devices (IEDs), as per the National Investigation...
As international focus shifts to Europe, Myanmar's generals get away with executing political prisoners and crackdown on protesters.
Of the total death row prisoners, 94 were sentenced to capital punishment in 2020, stated the National Crime Records Bureau's annual 'Prison Statistics India 2020'.
When asked if she would meet the Gandhi family, Nalini said 'I don't think they will meet me. I think the time has passed for them to see me.'
According to the prosecution, the convicts took the girl to India and sold her there to a brothel in 2009.
Following a probe, the three were arrested and a charge sheet was submitted in court, police said.
The victim's parents were reported to be protesting the SC's verdict and the victim's father said the apex court has 'let them down' and they have lost faith in the judiciary after fighting for over 11 years.
The recent exoneration of three death-row convicts by the Supreme Court poses complex questions about capital punishment and its application in India.
'In our country, little girls are considered to be incarnations of goddesses and people worship them... In such circumstances, raping and murdering a little...
Sudan has been on a fragile path to democratic rule since the ouster of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, following four months of mass protests.
District and Sessions judge Mahesh Jadhav considered the case as rarest of rare and awarded capital punishment to Sunil Kuchikorvi, who after killing his...
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President Joe Biden is expected to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, especially since an...
The Saudi Press Agency identified the men as soldiers working in the Defence Ministry
Additional Government Counsel Ajumed Singh Chauhan said the offence was committed on December 14, 2020, when Neeraj had lured the girl to a desolate place in...
The 42-year-old man and his 25-year-old son brutally raped and then killed the minor on March 24, 2019.
Lisa Montgomery, 52 was the only woman on federal death row in seven decades
Balwant Singh Rajoana was convicted in the 1995 assassination case of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
Capital punishment for rape leaves me more scared than before -- for self and society -- writes poet-playwright Annie Zaidi, after the Nirbhaya hanging.
'Now when my son is dead, I believe courts will give a fair hearing to me,' said father of one of the convicts.
While dismissing the plea, the bench said pending petitions of the convicts in various fora is untenable in law as a ground to stay the execution.
The four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case have no legal remedy available which can delay their hanging.
The Delhi jail manual says if a death row convict develops an acute or serious (not chronic) physical illness, hanging will be postponed. The jail...
The new date of execution was fixed after the court was told by the Delhi government that the convicts have exhausted all their legal remedies.
A.P. Singh, a lawyer for death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya case, is in the eye of a storm for using the law and delaying their hanging
