Tag: death penalty
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Dehradun: Main accused in Bengali couple murder case gets death penalty
The court of ADJ Mohammed Sultan gave death penalty to driver Raju and life imprisonment to the three co-accused
March 30, 2018 -
Rajasthan passes bill for death penalty for rape of girls under 12 years of age
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly on friday passed a bill approving death penalty to those convicted of raping or gang-raping a girl upto 12 years of age. With this, Rajasthan has become the second state in the country after Madhya Pradesh approving death sentence for those convicted of such rapes . State Home Minister Gulab Chand...
March 9, 2018 -
Donald Trump suggests death penalty for drug traffickers
US President Donald Trump suggested that the US should follow the example of other countries that impose the death penalty on drug traffickers. Speaking at a White House summit on the opioid epidemic on Thursday, Trump threatened to sue companies that manufacture painkillers with an eye toward halting the opioid addiction epidemic in US. He...
March 2, 2018 -
Pakistan: Accused gets 4 death sentences for minor’s rape-murder
An anti-terrorism court on Saturday found Imran Ali, the prime accused in the rape and murder case of a seven-year-old girl in Punjab province of Pakistan, guilty of the crime and handed him four counts of death, one life term and Rs. 3.2 million in fines. The verdict was announced at the Lahore’s Central Jail...
February 17, 2018 -
DCW chief asks PM for death penalty to rapists of children
Expressing concern over increasing number of child rapes in Delhi, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday seeking death penalty for those who rape minors. In her letter which comes after an eight-month-old girl was raped here last week, she demanded that “a system should be...
February 4, 2018 -
Japan executes two inmates for multiple murders
Japan on Tuesday executed two inmates who were sentenced to death for multiple murders in the 1990s, the Justice Ministry said. The first of the death-row inmates executed on Tuesday, Teruhiko Seki, 44, was sentenced for killing a four-member family in Ichikawa in 1992, when he was still a minor, reports Efe news. In addition...
December 19, 2017 -
Kulbhushan Jadhav awarded death sentence on concocted charges: India
India on Thursday reiterated that former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav had been awarded death sentence by a Pakistani military court on concocted charges and through a farcical process. At a media briefing here, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said India had sought consular access to Jadhav and many other Indians imprisoned in Pakistan as per...
December 14, 2017 -
MP nod to amendment bill for death penalty for child rapists
The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet on Sunday gave its approval to a proposed amendment in law to ensure the death penalty for those involved in the rape or gang rape of girls below the age of 12. A Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan gave the nod and expressed the government’s commitment...
November 27, 2017 -
He deserved death sentence, say Akshay’s family members
Akshay, a convict in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student, deserved the death sentence, his family members said after the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for him and three others in the case on Friday. "We have ended our relationship with him; Akshay is no more our family member; we...
May 5, 2017 -
Nirbhaya gangrape case: Death penalty for all 4 convicts
Terming the gangrape and murder of 23-year-old Nirbhaya a 'barbaric incident', the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death penalty of all four convicts. "Considering the serious injuries, the severe nature of the offence committed by the convicts, we are upholding the death sentence," the top court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra, Justices R Banumathi...
May 5, 2017 -
Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline
China's use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and still outpaces the rest of the world combined, even after the nation's execution rate fell sharply over the past decade, human rights activists said on Tuesday. Amnesty International reported 1,032 state-sponsored executions worldwide in 2016, excluding China, where the true number is unknown because...
April 11, 2017 -
Nirbhaya case: SC reserves judgment on appeals
In a major development to the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Supreme Court on Monday reserved judgment on the appeals filed by four death row convicts. A top court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan heard the case. The convicts – Akshay, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and...
March 27, 2017 -
Nirbhaya case: SC reserves judgment on appeals
In a major development to the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Supreme Court on Monday reserved judgment on the appeals filed by four death row convicts. A top court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan heard the case. The convicts – Akshay, Pawan, Vinay Sharma and...
March 27, 2017 -
Bangladesh court sentences 26 to death in murder case
A Bangladeshi court on Monday sentenced 26 persons to death in a sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj area of the country in 2014. Those given the death penalty included former Narayanganj councillor Nur Hossain who was extradited from Kolkata, and former Bangladesh Army Lt Col Tarek Sayeed for abducting and killing seven persons in April...
January 16, 2017