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Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty In Boy's Sexual Assault, Murder Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the death sentence imposed on a convict in a sexual assault and murder case of a four-year-old minor boy in 2016, and substituted it with a 25-year jail term without remission.
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Man In China Gets Death Penalty After Pushing Wife Into Sea For Insurance Money
Li had purchased four life insurance policies for his wife just two months after their marriage, naming himself as the sole beneficiary.
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Top Court Fumes At Centre Over No-Show In Beant Singh Assassin Case
Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is convicted for his involvement in an explosion that killed then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has filed a petition for commutation of his death sentence.
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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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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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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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Mamata Banerjee's Sunday Ultimatum To CBI For Death Penalty In Rape-Murder
Amid nationwide uproar over the Kolkata hospital rape-murder, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a rally this evening to demand death penalty for the accused.
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Anti-Terror Probe Agency NIA Seeks Death Penalty For Terrorist Yasin Malik
Justice Amit Sharma of the Delhi High Court recused himself from hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) appeal seeking the capital /death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case on Thursday.
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China Issues New Guidelines To Punish Taiwan "Separatists"
Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real "evil", Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.
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Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
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The Billionaire Facing Death Penalty In Vietnam's "Biggest Fraud"
A top Vietnamese property tycoon could face the death penalty when she and dozens of other co-accused face verdicts on Thursday in one of the country's biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of $12.5 billion.
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Qatar Accepts India's Appeal Against Death Penalty To 8 Navy Veterans
A Qatar court has accepted India's appeal against the death penalty to eight former Indian Navy personnel, who were handed the sentence last month in an alleged case of espionage.
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National Law University Invites Applications For Project On Death Penalty Cases
The shortlisted candidates will be paid one-time remuneration of Rs 30,000-35,000 per case on the completion of the deliverables.
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India Files Appeal In Case Of Eight Navy Veterans On Death Row In Qatar
India has filed an appeal with Qatari authorities over the death penalty to eight Navy veterans, who were arrested in August last year for reasons still not known.
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Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty In Boy's Sexual Assault, Murder Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the death sentence imposed on a convict in a sexual assault and murder case of a four-year-old minor boy in 2016, and substituted it with a 25-year jail term without remission.
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Man In China Gets Death Penalty After Pushing Wife Into Sea For Insurance Money
Li had purchased four life insurance policies for his wife just two months after their marriage, naming himself as the sole beneficiary.
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Top Court Fumes At Centre Over No-Show In Beant Singh Assassin Case
Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is convicted for his involvement in an explosion that killed then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, has filed a petition for commutation of his death sentence.
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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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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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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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Mamata Banerjee's Sunday Ultimatum To CBI For Death Penalty In Rape-Murder
Amid nationwide uproar over the Kolkata hospital rape-murder, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced a rally this evening to demand death penalty for the accused.
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Anti-Terror Probe Agency NIA Seeks Death Penalty For Terrorist Yasin Malik
Justice Amit Sharma of the Delhi High Court recused himself from hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) appeal seeking the capital /death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case on Thursday.
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China Issues New Guidelines To Punish Taiwan "Separatists"
Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real "evil", Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists.
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Japan Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate
Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday sought the death penalty in the retrial of a man reputed to have been the world's longest-serving death row prisoner until his release in 2014, local media reported.
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The Billionaire Facing Death Penalty In Vietnam's "Biggest Fraud"
A top Vietnamese property tycoon could face the death penalty when she and dozens of other co-accused face verdicts on Thursday in one of the country's biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of $12.5 billion.
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Qatar Accepts India's Appeal Against Death Penalty To 8 Navy Veterans
A Qatar court has accepted India's appeal against the death penalty to eight former Indian Navy personnel, who were handed the sentence last month in an alleged case of espionage.
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National Law University Invites Applications For Project On Death Penalty Cases
The shortlisted candidates will be paid one-time remuneration of Rs 30,000-35,000 per case on the completion of the deliverables.
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India Files Appeal In Case Of Eight Navy Veterans On Death Row In Qatar
India has filed an appeal with Qatari authorities over the death penalty to eight Navy veterans, who were arrested in August last year for reasons still not known.
