death sentence

‘Quite harsh’: Death sentence commuted, Supreme Court questions convicts’ 35-year jail term without remission

May 12, 2026 5:04 pm

The Supreme Court was hearing a challenge to a 2017 judgment of the Orissa High Court in a rape-murder case. The bench may examine if the punishment struck a legally sustainable balance.

‘Breach of most intimate trust’: Gauhati High Court spares life of man who killed his family

April 11, 2026 9:58 am

Gauhati High Court news: While commuting the death penalty, the Gauhati High Court noted that sentencing must be both crime-centric and criminal-centric, rather than merely a reaction to the brutality of the act.

9 policemen sentenced to death for custodial killing of father, son in 2020 case that rocked Tamil Nadu

April 07, 2026 5:20 am

Jayaraj, a trader, was held for allegedly violating Covid lockdown rules. His son, Benicks, was picked up when he went to check on his father.

Bengal: In 'rarest of rare case', Malda youth who killed 4 of his family gets death sentence

May 19, 2025 4:42 am

The murders took place on February 28, 2021, but an FIR was filed four months later, on June 9, 2021, after Asif’s elder brother, Arif, told the police about the crime

HC commutes death sentence of man convicted for rape, murder of daughter: 'not rarest of rare case'

April 03, 2025 11:31 pm

Court held that while there was no doubt about the brutal and heinous nature of the crime, the fact remains that the man has no criminal antecedents, hails from a poor socio-economic background, and his conduct inside the jail has been satisfactory.

‘Rarest of rare’: 3 sentenced to death for 1981 killing of 24 Dalits in UP’s Dehuli

March 19, 2025 5:30 am

On November 18, 1981, 17 men dressed in khakis stormed Dehuli village and gunned down 24 Dalits

Supreme Court commutes death sentence of Karnataka man who killed his children in 2010

March 04, 2025 6:45 pm

The Supreme Court did not find any error in the findings by the trial court and Karnataka High Court about the man's guilt.

Court sentences man to death for raping and killing 7-year-old: ‘Menace to society... needs to be removed’

March 01, 2025 3:20 am

Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Sharawan Kumar Bishnoi, had submitted in court that Rajender also kidnapped and raped a girl, aged 8, when he was 20 years old

Number of Indian citizens awarded death sentences by foreign courts stands at 54: Govt

February 13, 2025 7:10 pm

The ministry was asked whether the government takes any "pro-active measures" to save the lives of such citizens; and if so, the details thereof.

What is paraquat poisoning, by which Greeshma killed her boyfriend Sharon Raj?

January 25, 2025 7:39 pm

SHARON RAJ MURDER CASE: A Kerala woman was sentenced to death this week for the 2022 murder of her boyfriend. She used paraquat, a toxic chemical and one of the world’s most-used herbicides.

Explained: The Death Penalty Report

May 07, 2016 5:23 pm