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"Hangman's Noose Not To Be Taken Off": Top Court Commutes Death Penalty
Directing the hangman's noose to be "taken off the convict's neck", the Supreme Court ordered a death row prisoner to remain in jail "till the end of his days given by god almighty".
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Ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar Gets Life Term In 1984 Case, Spared Death Penalty
A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a murder case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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Death Penalty Cancelled, Serial Rapist Assaults, Kills 11-Year-Old In Madhya Pradesh
The horrific death of an 11-year-old hearing and speech impaired girl in Narsinghgarh (Rajgarh) has once again raised serious questions about the judicial system that allows repeat rape offenders to walk free.
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Prosecution Seeks Death Penalty For Sajjan Kumar In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Case
The prosecution in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case sought the death penalty for former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar on Tuesday, who is convicted murdering a father-son duo in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar area.
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CBI Seeks Death Penalty For RG Kar Rape Convict, Approaches High Court
The Central Bureau of Investigation - the probe agency in Kolkata's RG Kar rape and murder case - has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the death penalty for the convict Sanjay Roy.
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"Not Our Job To Protect Criminals": Bengal Seeks Death Penalty For RG Kar Convict
The Mamata Banerjee government has challenged the trial court's life imprisonment order against the convict in RG Kar rape-murder case, demanding that he be given the death penalty.
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'Must Rise Above Eye For An Eye': Why No Death Penalty For RG Kar Convict
The Kolkata court, which sentenced RG Kar rape-murder case convict Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment, has made strong remarks on the response of the hospital authority and police after a 34-year-old doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar room
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"Indeed Rarest Of Rare": Mamata Banerjee "Shocked" About RG Kar Case Order
Kolkata Police would have ensured death penalty for the convict in RG Kar rape and murder case, but the probe was taken away and handed over to the CBI, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today
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"Rarest Of Rare Case": Prosecution Wants Death Penalty For RG Kar Convict
Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted in the rape-murder case of a 34-year-old doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, reiterated in court this afternoon that he was innocent and had been framed in the chilling case
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"Closely Tracking Developments": Centre On Kerala Nurse's Death Penalty In Yemen
India on Friday said it is closely following the developments in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, facing a death sentence in Yemen.
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'Will Do All We Can': Iran Official On Kerala Nurse Nimisha Priya On Death Row In Yemen
Iran will do whatever it can in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, facing a death sentence in Yemen, a senior Iranian official said on Thursday.
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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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After 6 Of Family Killed In Manipur's Jiribam Massacre, Survivors Seek Death Penalty For "Kuki Militants"
Family members of six people from the Meitei community including three children who were kidnapped and killed in Manipur's Jiribam narrated what they called the "horror" of November 11.
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Bengal Man Gets Death Penalty 2 Months After He Raped, Killed 10-Year-Old Girl
A 19-year-old man has been convicted of rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district and sentenced to death.
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UP Man Given Death Penalty In Saudi Arabia On Drug Charges, Family Pleads For Mercy
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to death on charges of drug trafficking, triggering panic and despair among his family members who have pleaded for clemency.
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"Hangman's Noose Not To Be Taken Off": Top Court Commutes Death Penalty
Directing the hangman's noose to be "taken off the convict's neck", the Supreme Court ordered a death row prisoner to remain in jail "till the end of his days given by god almighty".
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Ex-Congress MP Sajjan Kumar Gets Life Term In 1984 Case, Spared Death Penalty
A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a murder case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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Death Penalty Cancelled, Serial Rapist Assaults, Kills 11-Year-Old In Madhya Pradesh
The horrific death of an 11-year-old hearing and speech impaired girl in Narsinghgarh (Rajgarh) has once again raised serious questions about the judicial system that allows repeat rape offenders to walk free.
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Prosecution Seeks Death Penalty For Sajjan Kumar In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Case
The prosecution in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case sought the death penalty for former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar on Tuesday, who is convicted murdering a father-son duo in Delhi's Saraswati Vihar area.
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CBI Seeks Death Penalty For RG Kar Rape Convict, Approaches High Court
The Central Bureau of Investigation - the probe agency in Kolkata's RG Kar rape and murder case - has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the death penalty for the convict Sanjay Roy.
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"Not Our Job To Protect Criminals": Bengal Seeks Death Penalty For RG Kar Convict
The Mamata Banerjee government has challenged the trial court's life imprisonment order against the convict in RG Kar rape-murder case, demanding that he be given the death penalty.
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'Must Rise Above Eye For An Eye': Why No Death Penalty For RG Kar Convict
The Kolkata court, which sentenced RG Kar rape-murder case convict Sanjoy Roy to life imprisonment, has made strong remarks on the response of the hospital authority and police after a 34-year-old doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar room
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"Indeed Rarest Of Rare": Mamata Banerjee "Shocked" About RG Kar Case Order
Kolkata Police would have ensured death penalty for the convict in RG Kar rape and murder case, but the probe was taken away and handed over to the CBI, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today
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"Rarest Of Rare Case": Prosecution Wants Death Penalty For RG Kar Convict
Sanjay Roy, who has been convicted in the rape-murder case of a 34-year-old doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, reiterated in court this afternoon that he was innocent and had been framed in the chilling case
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"Closely Tracking Developments": Centre On Kerala Nurse's Death Penalty In Yemen
India on Friday said it is closely following the developments in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, facing a death sentence in Yemen.
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'Will Do All We Can': Iran Official On Kerala Nurse Nimisha Priya On Death Row In Yemen
Iran will do whatever it can in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, facing a death sentence in Yemen, a senior Iranian official said on Thursday.
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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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After 6 Of Family Killed In Manipur's Jiribam Massacre, Survivors Seek Death Penalty For "Kuki Militants"
Family members of six people from the Meitei community including three children who were kidnapped and killed in Manipur's Jiribam narrated what they called the "horror" of November 11.
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Bengal Man Gets Death Penalty 2 Months After He Raped, Killed 10-Year-Old Girl
A 19-year-old man has been convicted of rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district and sentenced to death.
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UP Man Given Death Penalty In Saudi Arabia On Drug Charges, Family Pleads For Mercy
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh to death on charges of drug trafficking, triggering panic and despair among his family members who have pleaded for clemency.
