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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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West Bengal Man Gets Death Sentence For Minor's Rape And Murder
A Murshidabad court on Friday sentenced to death one person and awarded life imprisonment to another in the rape and murder of a minor girl and necrophilia in West Bengal's Farakka in October.
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"Delay In Death Sentence Execution Can Violate Convicts' Rights": Supreme Court
An inordinate delay in the execution of a death sentence has a dehumanising effect on the accused, the Supreme Court observed on Monday.
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Gujarat Court Acquits Ex IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt In 1997 Custodial Torture Case
Sanjiv Bhatt was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1990 custodial death case in Jamnagar and 20 years in jail in a 1996 case relating to planting drugs to frame a Rajasthan-based lawyer in Palanpur.
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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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50-Year-Old Indian-Origin Man Gets Life Term For Girlfriend's Murder In UK
An Indian-origin man who brutally beat up his girlfriend to death at his home in East Midlands region of England, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a UK court.
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Trump Cutting Ukraine Aid Would Be A "Death Sentence" For Its Army: Russia
Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday any decision by President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration to cut support for Ukraine would be a "death sentence" for the Ukrainian army.
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"My Only Thought Is On How To Repay Stolen Funds": Vietnam Tycoon On Death Row To Court
A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for multi-billion-dollar fraud begged a court to spare her life Tuesday, saying she was trying to repay the stolen funds.
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Israel PM Deserves "Death Sentence", War Crimes Case Insufficient: Iran's Supreme Leader
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a "death sentence".
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Iran's Khamenei Calls For Death Sentence For Israeli Leaders
The supreme leader of Iran, which backs the Hamas and Hezbollah militants fighting Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, said on Monday that death sentences should be issued for Israeli leaders, not arrest warrants.
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Thai Woman Gets Death Sentence After Poisoning 14 Friends With Cyanide
Authorities have since linked Sararat to a series of cyanide poisonings dating back to 2015.
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2 Years After Her Death, Billionaire Heiress Eliza Fletcher's Killer Pleads Guilty In US
A USman, who admitted to kidnapping and murdering Eliza Fletcher, a billionaire heiress, has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Cleotha Abston pleaded guilty in a Memphis courtroom on Monday, leading to an immediate life sentence.
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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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US Man, Wrongly Convicted For 22 Years, Says Prison Saved His Life
Convicted in 1995 of a double homicide, Calvin Buari was sentenced to 50 years to life for the deaths of two brothers, Elijah and Salhaddin Harris, in the Bronx.
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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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West Bengal Man Gets Death Sentence For Minor's Rape And Murder
A Murshidabad court on Friday sentenced to death one person and awarded life imprisonment to another in the rape and murder of a minor girl and necrophilia in West Bengal's Farakka in October.
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"Delay In Death Sentence Execution Can Violate Convicts' Rights": Supreme Court
An inordinate delay in the execution of a death sentence has a dehumanising effect on the accused, the Supreme Court observed on Monday.
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Gujarat Court Acquits Ex IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt In 1997 Custodial Torture Case
Sanjiv Bhatt was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1990 custodial death case in Jamnagar and 20 years in jail in a 1996 case relating to planting drugs to frame a Rajasthan-based lawyer in Palanpur.
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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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50-Year-Old Indian-Origin Man Gets Life Term For Girlfriend's Murder In UK
An Indian-origin man who brutally beat up his girlfriend to death at his home in East Midlands region of England, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a UK court.
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Trump Cutting Ukraine Aid Would Be A "Death Sentence" For Its Army: Russia
Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday any decision by President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration to cut support for Ukraine would be a "death sentence" for the Ukrainian army.
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"My Only Thought Is On How To Repay Stolen Funds": Vietnam Tycoon On Death Row To Court
A Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death for multi-billion-dollar fraud begged a court to spare her life Tuesday, saying she was trying to repay the stolen funds.
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Israel PM Deserves "Death Sentence", War Crimes Case Insufficient: Iran's Supreme Leader
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a "death sentence".
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Iran's Khamenei Calls For Death Sentence For Israeli Leaders
The supreme leader of Iran, which backs the Hamas and Hezbollah militants fighting Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, said on Monday that death sentences should be issued for Israeli leaders, not arrest warrants.
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Thai Woman Gets Death Sentence After Poisoning 14 Friends With Cyanide
Authorities have since linked Sararat to a series of cyanide poisonings dating back to 2015.
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2 Years After Her Death, Billionaire Heiress Eliza Fletcher's Killer Pleads Guilty In US
A USman, who admitted to kidnapping and murdering Eliza Fletcher, a billionaire heiress, has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Cleotha Abston pleaded guilty in a Memphis courtroom on Monday, leading to an immediate life sentence.
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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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US Man, Wrongly Convicted For 22 Years, Says Prison Saved His Life
Convicted in 1995 of a double homicide, Calvin Buari was sentenced to 50 years to life for the deaths of two brothers, Elijah and Salhaddin Harris, in the Bronx.
