According to the prosecution, the convicts took the girl to India and sold her there to a brothel in 2009.
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...
Following a probe, the three were arrested and a charge sheet was submitted in court, police said.
The recent exoneration of three death-row convicts by the Supreme Court poses complex questions about capital punishment and its application in India.
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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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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
With one of the death row convicts using his last legal remedy, the hanging scheduled on March 3 is expected to be postponed, again.
Judges assess the severity of a crime in their own way, often leading to different degrees of punishment for crimes of similar nature.
Legal experts say the convicts cannot be executed until the Supreme Court concludes the hearing on the question of separate hanging.
The court rejected contention of Vinay Sharma that he is mentally ill saying his medical report suggests he is stable.
