Death Penalty Debate

Tennessee on Thursday electrocuted a convicted murder who had been on death row for 36 years, in a case that renewed debate on use of the death penalty so long after a crime.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign to bring back the death penalty for drug-related crimes has cleared a major hurdle, with supporters backing it in congress but critics denouncing the plans as "inhumane".

The 4-year-old girl on her bicycle was next to her mother at a train station in Taipei on Monday when it happened: A man grabbed the girl from behind, and using a cleaver, decapitated her, according to police.

In the wake of the debate over the death penalty following the execution of Mumbai attack convict Yakub Memon, the Supreme Court has said the death penalty is not inhuman or barbaric and will not violate the right to life and liberty in heinous crimes.

How does one compare wrongdoing? Why should an Ajmal Kasab hang if those who killed Rajiv Gandhi don't need to? How is Yakub Memon designated more evil and less capable of redemption than Surendra Koli, the child killer of Nithari?

Convicted killers in three states were facing executions within a 24-hour period starting Tuesday night, marking the first lethal injections in the United States since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma intensified America's debate over the death penalty seven weeks ago.

The government has decided not to wait for Parliament to clear tough new anti-rape laws, the subject of national debate after the fatal gang-rape of a young student on a Delhi bus in December. Instead, the government has brought in an ordinance that introduces tougher jail terms for crimes against women, including the death penalty for extreme case...

After a debate that stretched from afternoon to night, Gujarat Assembly again passed a bill proscribing the maximum of death penalty for those trading in spurious liquor.

26/11 terrorist Kasab's confession has thrown open the debate on the death penalty.

Tennessee on Thursday electrocuted a convicted murder who had been on death row for 36 years, in a case that renewed debate on use of the death penalty so long after a crime.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign to bring back the death penalty for drug-related crimes has cleared a major hurdle, with supporters backing it in congress but critics denouncing the plans as "inhumane".

The 4-year-old girl on her bicycle was next to her mother at a train station in Taipei on Monday when it happened: A man grabbed the girl from behind, and using a cleaver, decapitated her, according to police.

In the wake of the debate over the death penalty following the execution of Mumbai attack convict Yakub Memon, the Supreme Court has said the death penalty is not inhuman or barbaric and will not violate the right to life and liberty in heinous crimes.

How does one compare wrongdoing? Why should an Ajmal Kasab hang if those who killed Rajiv Gandhi don't need to? How is Yakub Memon designated more evil and less capable of redemption than Surendra Koli, the child killer of Nithari?

Convicted killers in three states were facing executions within a 24-hour period starting Tuesday night, marking the first lethal injections in the United States since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma intensified America's debate over the death penalty seven weeks ago.

The government has decided not to wait for Parliament to clear tough new anti-rape laws, the subject of national debate after the fatal gang-rape of a young student on a Delhi bus in December. Instead, the government has brought in an ordinance that introduces tougher jail terms for crimes against women, including the death penalty for extreme case...

After a debate that stretched from afternoon to night, Gujarat Assembly again passed a bill proscribing the maximum of death penalty for those trading in spurious liquor.

26/11 terrorist Kasab's confession has thrown open the debate on the death penalty.