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High Court Upholds Migrant Worker's Death Sentence For Rape, Murder Of Girl
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday upheld the order of a lower court which sentenced, to death, the convict in the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Hyderabad.
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Iran Confirms Death Penalty In Officer's Killing At Mahsa Amini Protests
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a man convicted of killing a Revolutionary Guards officer during nationwide protests last year, the judiciary said.
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For Killing 6, Including Wife, Children, Court Upholds Death Penalty For Man
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded by a CBI court to a man convicted of killing six people, including his wife and their three children, in 2009.
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Singapore Upholds Death Penalty Of 2 Indian-Origin Men For Drug Trafficking
Singapore's highest court has upheld the death sentence of two Indian-origin men convicted of conspiring to traffic at least 1.3 kilograms of cannabis in March 2016, according to a media report.
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Iran Sentences Pair To Death For Adultery: Report
Iran's supreme court has upheld death sentences for adultery against a 27-year-old and his 33-year-old lover after the man's father-in-law denied them clemency, a reformist newspaper reported Saturday.
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Bangladesh Upholds Death Sentence To Top Jamaat Leader For War Crimes
The Supreme Court in Bangladesh on Thursday upheld the death sentence to top Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for committing war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War by siding with Pakistani troops.
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Death Sentence Of Convict Commuted To Life In Preeti Rathi Case
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a 25-year-old man in the 2013 Preeti Rathi acid attack and murder case in Mumbai, but commuted his death penalty to life imprisonment.
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Bombay High Court Upholds Death Penalty For Repeat Rape Convicts
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of a section of the Indian Penal Code, which states that a repeat rape offender can be imprisoned for the rest of his life or sentenced to death.
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Egypt Sentences 75 To Death Over Clashes, Journalist Gets 5 Years
An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld death sentences against 75 people, in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising, and gave a five-year jail term to an award-winning photojournalist.
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Delhi High Court Upholds Man's Life Sentence For Burning Wife To Death
The Delhi High Court has upheld life imprisonment awarded to a man by a trial court for setting his wife afire for refusing to give him money to buy liquor, saying their three children had testified that he had killed her.
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High Court Upholds Death Sentence To Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld a lower court's order awarding death sentence to a man for raping and killing a four-year-old girl, observing that "humanity is more in danger in the hands of persons like the convict".
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The Nirbhaya Rape Case That Rocked India
Supreme Court on Monday upheld death sentences for three men over the infamous gang-rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 that sparked national protests and led to tough new penalties for sexual violence.
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Nirbhaya's Parents In Top Court For Verdict On Death Penalty For 3 Rapists
The Supreme Court will today decide whether the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering nationwide protests, deserve mercy. The top court will announce its verdict on a review plea filed by three of the four convicts seeking reduction of their death sentence to ...
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Danish Woman Rape: Delhi High Court Upholds Life Term Till Death Of Convicts
The Delhi High Court today upheld the sentence of life imprisonment till death given to five convicts for gangraping a 52-year-old Danish woman in Delhi in 2014. The court dismissed the appeal of the convicts challenging their conviction and jail term awarded by a trial court in 2016.
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Bosnian Croat War Criminal Slobodan Praljak Dead After Taking Poison
Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak died Wednesday after drinking poison in a dramatic courtroom scene after UN judges upheld his 20-year sentence, Croatia's state-run news agency said.
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High Court Upholds Migrant Worker's Death Sentence For Rape, Murder Of Girl
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday upheld the order of a lower court which sentenced, to death, the convict in the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Hyderabad.
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Iran Confirms Death Penalty In Officer's Killing At Mahsa Amini Protests
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a man convicted of killing a Revolutionary Guards officer during nationwide protests last year, the judiciary said.
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For Killing 6, Including Wife, Children, Court Upholds Death Penalty For Man
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded by a CBI court to a man convicted of killing six people, including his wife and their three children, in 2009.
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Singapore Upholds Death Penalty Of 2 Indian-Origin Men For Drug Trafficking
Singapore's highest court has upheld the death sentence of two Indian-origin men convicted of conspiring to traffic at least 1.3 kilograms of cannabis in March 2016, according to a media report.
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Iran Sentences Pair To Death For Adultery: Report
Iran's supreme court has upheld death sentences for adultery against a 27-year-old and his 33-year-old lover after the man's father-in-law denied them clemency, a reformist newspaper reported Saturday.
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Bangladesh Upholds Death Sentence To Top Jamaat Leader For War Crimes
The Supreme Court in Bangladesh on Thursday upheld the death sentence to top Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for committing war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War by siding with Pakistani troops.
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Death Sentence Of Convict Commuted To Life In Preeti Rathi Case
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a 25-year-old man in the 2013 Preeti Rathi acid attack and murder case in Mumbai, but commuted his death penalty to life imprisonment.
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Bombay High Court Upholds Death Penalty For Repeat Rape Convicts
The Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of a section of the Indian Penal Code, which states that a repeat rape offender can be imprisoned for the rest of his life or sentenced to death.
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Egypt Sentences 75 To Death Over Clashes, Journalist Gets 5 Years
An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld death sentences against 75 people, in one of the largest mass trials since the 2011 uprising, and gave a five-year jail term to an award-winning photojournalist.
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Delhi High Court Upholds Man's Life Sentence For Burning Wife To Death
The Delhi High Court has upheld life imprisonment awarded to a man by a trial court for setting his wife afire for refusing to give him money to buy liquor, saying their three children had testified that he had killed her.
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High Court Upholds Death Sentence To Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld a lower court's order awarding death sentence to a man for raping and killing a four-year-old girl, observing that "humanity is more in danger in the hands of persons like the convict".
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The Nirbhaya Rape Case That Rocked India
Supreme Court on Monday upheld death sentences for three men over the infamous gang-rape and murder of a woman in New Delhi in 2012 that sparked national protests and led to tough new penalties for sexual violence.
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Nirbhaya's Parents In Top Court For Verdict On Death Penalty For 3 Rapists
The Supreme Court will today decide whether the four men sentenced to death for raping and torturing a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, triggering nationwide protests, deserve mercy. The top court will announce its verdict on a review plea filed by three of the four convicts seeking reduction of their death sentence to ...
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Danish Woman Rape: Delhi High Court Upholds Life Term Till Death Of Convicts
The Delhi High Court today upheld the sentence of life imprisonment till death given to five convicts for gangraping a 52-year-old Danish woman in Delhi in 2014. The court dismissed the appeal of the convicts challenging their conviction and jail term awarded by a trial court in 2016.
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Bosnian Croat War Criminal Slobodan Praljak Dead After Taking Poison
Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak died Wednesday after drinking poison in a dramatic courtroom scene after UN judges upheld his 20-year sentence, Croatia's state-run news agency said.
