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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
