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How AI Responded To Chief Justice DY Chandrachud's Death Penalty Question
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, known to pull up lawyers for breaking court decorum, had an Artificial Intelligence (AI) lawyer to deal with today. The interaction took place at the inauguration ceremony of National Judicial Museum and Archive
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Texas Man With Autism Faces Death Penalty Due To Alleged Child Murder
The Texas pardons board rejected a clemency appeal on Wednesday from an autistic man on death row whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome."
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Supreme Court Commutes Death Penalty Of Man Guilty Of Killing Daughter
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty of a man, who murdered his pregnant daughter for performing an inter-caste marriage against her family's will and sentenced him to 20 years in jail instead.
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Pakistan Among World's Harshest Users Of Death Penalty: Report
Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.
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High Court Confirms Death Penalty For Man Who Killed Mother, Ate Body Parts
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death penalty imposed by a Kolhapur court on a man for killing his mother in 2017 and allegedly eating some of the body parts, noting this was a case of cannibalism.
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Accusation Against Ex-RG Kar Principal Can Attract Death Penalty If Proved: Court
A designated CBI court, while denying bail to former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, has observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation against him is grave and it can attract capital punishment if proved.
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Man Gets Death Penalty For Sexually Assaulting 21 Children In Arunachal School
A special POCSO court in Yupia in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday sentenced a man to death for sexually assaulting 21 children, including 15 girls, at a residential school.
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UP Man Appeals To President, PM Modi To Save Daughter Facing Death Sentence In UAE
Shahzadi, a resident of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh, may be hanged in the UAE any time after September 20. The 29-year-old woman has been in Abu Dhabi jail for a long time for the murder of a four-month-old child.
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Explained: Mamata Banerjee's New Law For Death Penalty In Rape Cases
Amid massive protests over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the West Bengal Assembly today passed the Aparajita Bill to amend some provisions in the criminal code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
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Bill Seeking Death Penalty For Rape Convicts Passed In Bengal Assembly
The 'Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill', which seeks the death penalty for convicts in rape and murder cases or in cases of rape where the victim is left in a vegetative state, was passed through a voice vote in the
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Politicians Assuring Death Penalty For Cultprits Creating "Mob Rule": Supreme Court Judge
Justice Abhay Oka of the Supreme Court on Sunday said "mob rule" is being created as politicians capitalise on certain incidents and assure capital punishment for culprits, stressing that only the judiciary can pass legal verdicts.
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Singaporean Man Plants 'Death Penalty' Weed In Wife's Car, Jailed
A Singaporean man has been sentenced to nearly four years behind bars after attempting to frame his estranged wife by placing cannabis in her car, knowing she could get the death penalty.
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Bengal Will Make Death Penalty Mandatory For Rapists: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, under massive pressure from the Opposition since the rape-murder of a young doctor in Kolkata -- has declared that she would change the laws in the state to make death penalty mandatory for rape.
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Iran Executes Fortune Teller For Raping Clients Under "False Pretences"
Authorities in central Iran executed a male fortune-teller for raping and sexually assaulting his clients, the judiciary said on Wednesday.
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Mamata Banerjee Leads Rally Demanding Death Penalty For Rape-Murder Guilty
West Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee this evening led a rally demanding death penalty for the guilty in the rape and murder of a woman doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
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How AI Responded To Chief Justice DY Chandrachud's Death Penalty Question
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, known to pull up lawyers for breaking court decorum, had an Artificial Intelligence (AI) lawyer to deal with today. The interaction took place at the inauguration ceremony of National Judicial Museum and Archive
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Texas Man With Autism Faces Death Penalty Due To Alleged Child Murder
The Texas pardons board rejected a clemency appeal on Wednesday from an autistic man on death row whose murder conviction was based on what his lawyers say was a misdiagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome."
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Supreme Court Commutes Death Penalty Of Man Guilty Of Killing Daughter
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty of a man, who murdered his pregnant daughter for performing an inter-caste marriage against her family's will and sentenced him to 20 years in jail instead.
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Pakistan Among World's Harshest Users Of Death Penalty: Report
Pakistan's use of the death penalty is among the harshest in the world, accounting for 26 per cent of the global death row population, according to data released by a non-profit group on Thursday.
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High Court Confirms Death Penalty For Man Who Killed Mother, Ate Body Parts
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death penalty imposed by a Kolhapur court on a man for killing his mother in 2017 and allegedly eating some of the body parts, noting this was a case of cannibalism.
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Accusation Against Ex-RG Kar Principal Can Attract Death Penalty If Proved: Court
A designated CBI court, while denying bail to former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, has observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation against him is grave and it can attract capital punishment if proved.
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Man Gets Death Penalty For Sexually Assaulting 21 Children In Arunachal School
A special POCSO court in Yupia in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday sentenced a man to death for sexually assaulting 21 children, including 15 girls, at a residential school.
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UP Man Appeals To President, PM Modi To Save Daughter Facing Death Sentence In UAE
Shahzadi, a resident of Banda district in Uttar Pradesh, may be hanged in the UAE any time after September 20. The 29-year-old woman has been in Abu Dhabi jail for a long time for the murder of a four-month-old child.
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Explained: Mamata Banerjee's New Law For Death Penalty In Rape Cases
Amid massive protests over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the West Bengal Assembly today passed the Aparajita Bill to amend some provisions in the criminal code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita
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Bill Seeking Death Penalty For Rape Convicts Passed In Bengal Assembly
The 'Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill', which seeks the death penalty for convicts in rape and murder cases or in cases of rape where the victim is left in a vegetative state, was passed through a voice vote in the
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Politicians Assuring Death Penalty For Cultprits Creating "Mob Rule": Supreme Court Judge
Justice Abhay Oka of the Supreme Court on Sunday said "mob rule" is being created as politicians capitalise on certain incidents and assure capital punishment for culprits, stressing that only the judiciary can pass legal verdicts.
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Singaporean Man Plants 'Death Penalty' Weed In Wife's Car, Jailed
A Singaporean man has been sentenced to nearly four years behind bars after attempting to frame his estranged wife by placing cannabis in her car, knowing she could get the death penalty.
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Bengal Will Make Death Penalty Mandatory For Rapists: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, under massive pressure from the Opposition since the rape-murder of a young doctor in Kolkata -- has declared that she would change the laws in the state to make death penalty mandatory for rape.
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Iran Executes Fortune Teller For Raping Clients Under "False Pretences"
Authorities in central Iran executed a male fortune-teller for raping and sexually assaulting his clients, the judiciary said on Wednesday.
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Mamata Banerjee Leads Rally Demanding Death Penalty For Rape-Murder Guilty
West Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee this evening led a rally demanding death penalty for the guilty in the rape and murder of a woman doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
