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How many Indian citizens are imprisoned & facing death penalties in foreign jails?

July 31, 2025 4:44 pm

Indians in foreign jails 2025: MoS External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh stated that the government attaches high priority to the safety, security and well-being of Indian nationals in foreign countries, including those in foreign jails.

Nimisha Priya case: India in touch with 'friendly governments' to find solution

July 18, 2025 3:29 am

Nimisha Priya's execution was scheduled for July 16 but it was postponed.

Nimisha Priya ran a clinic in Yemen, but she allegedly faced mental, physical and financial abuse, which culminated in the murder. (File Photo)

Sedatives, torture, and a clinic gone wrong: How Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya landed on Yemen’s death row for killing alleged abuser

July 16, 2025 12:24 pm

Nimisha Priya had been offered a job at a health centre outside Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and believed this could be the stepping stone to opening her own clinic.

US death row inmate wants to represent himself because he wants to die

May 22, 2025 12:38 am

Prisoners like Robertson are known in capital punishment circles as volunteers —inmates who waive their appeals and effectively request execution

UAE executes UP woman convicted last year over infant killing: MEA to Delhi HC

March 04, 2025 8:10 am

She had been imprisoned in Abu Dhabi’s Al Wathba prison since 2022 following the child's death.

Case is full of holes': SC acquits death row inmate, slams UP police for shoddy probe

February 20, 2025 11:45 am

The police arrested the man and a woman, and apprehended a minor in connection with the murders in May 2012.

Creech's killing of David Jensen, a young, disabled man who was serving time for car theft, was his last in a broad path of destruction that saw Creech convicted of five murders in three states. He is also suspected of at least a half-dozen others.

Idaho is set to execute a long-time death row inmate, a serial killer with a penchant for poetry

February 25, 2024 12:29 pm

This Wednesday, some of Idaho's prison staffers will be asked to kill him. Barring any last-minute stay, the 73-year-old, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed by lethal injection for killing a fellow prisoner with a battery-filled sock in 1981.

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In 2023, HCs heard cases of 80 on death row, confirmed one

February 10, 2024 8:02 am

Second year when SC didn’t confirm any death sentence: Project 39A report

Free, after 25 years on death row: 'Lost so many years. I want time to stop for me'

April 17, 2023 2:22 pm

Sentenced to death for killing six members of the Rathi family in Pune and their help in 1994, Narayan Chetanram Chaudhary thought his fate was sealed. But somewhere in the anda cell, with its white walls that offered a peek of the sky, his fortunes changed -- he was no longer a dead man

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Supreme Court stays execution of man on death row

August 13, 2017 9:07 am

In its judgement, the high court had held that Madan and his associates had indiscriminately fired upon the victims and considering the gravity of offence, it was covered under the category of thhe rarest of rare cases warranting death penalty.