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Death penalty: Courts cannot just ignore the law
September 22, 2026 12:53 pm
A close reading of the nine judgments in which the Additional District and Sessions Judge, Muzaffarnagar, imposed 23 death sentences reveals a deeply troubling picture
Capital punishment highest in murder cases, sexual violence next: Death penalty lawyer Shreya Rastogi
November 21, 2025 9:35 pm
Rastogi says the grounds for commuting a death penalty to life imprisonment includes a jail conduct report, a psychological evaluation, and a probation officer's report.
2 get capital punishment for rape, murder of 3.5-year-old girl in Fatehabad
April 10, 2025 9:37 am
Pronouncing the judgment, Additional District and Sessions Judge Amit Garg of the court — which concluded the trial within a year — termed the June 2024 case “rarest of the rare”
Need to seriously introspect whether death penalty required after 75 years of Constitution: SC judge Abhay Oka
February 16, 2025 4:05 pm
Justice Abhay S Oka's observation comes in the backdrop of a recent report of Project 39A, a criminal justice programme at the National Law University, Delhi, which stated that the SC did not confirm a single death sentence in 2024 and 2023, while trial courts awarded 139 such verdicts.
Vikrant Massey says he feels 'ashamed' that he is 'more secure than the opposite sex': 'A lot of us need to look at the rot within'
September 14, 2024 12:24 pm
Actor Vikrant Massey opened up about the Justice Hema Committee report.
Fisherman gets capital punishment for rape and murder of 8-yr-old
July 30, 2024 12:39 am
Gir Somnath Superintendent of Police Manoharsinh Jadeja said that a special investigation team (SIT) was formed to probe the case.
In a first, US executes prisoner with new nitrogen asphyxiation method
January 26, 2024 7:06 pm
Though poisonous gases such as hydrogen cyanide have been used in executions in the US and beyond in the past, this was the first time a death sentence was carried out anywhere using an inert gas to suffocate someone, capital punishment experts say.
West Bengal: Man who stabbed college girl 42 times gets death penalty
September 01, 2023 3:13 am
This is the second incident of capital punishment being awarded by a court in West Bengal in a week.
Singapore executes another man for a drug-related offence: What's going on?
May 17, 2023 6:18 pm
The United Nations (UN) had strongly condemned the hangings in April this year, calling the inflated number of such punishments "highly alarming."
Iran hangs Swedish-Iranian it convicted over attack that killed 25 people
May 06, 2023 1:55 pm
Habib Farajollah Chaab had been sentenced to death for being "corrupt on earth", a capital offence under Iran's strict Islamic laws.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT VIDEOS
Mikhail Bora seeks capital punishment for culprits
February 18, 2016 10:00 am
Guwahati, Feb 18 (ANI): Indrani Mukerjea's son Mikhail Bora has demanded capital punishment for his mother and others who are accused in his sister Sheena Bora murder case. He said that he had been saying from the beginning that Peter Mukerjea is involved in the conspiracy.
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