Kasab Death Penalty

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  President Pranab Mukherjee Rejects 2 More Mercy Pleas, Total Count Stands At 30

  President Pranab Mukherjee rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May. The dismissal of the appeals comes just weeks before his term ends and takes the total number of mercy petitions rejected by him to 30. The cases involved the rape and murder of a four-year-old girl by three men in Indore in 2012, and a 22-year-old woman in Pune in 200...

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  Opinion: Charged Debate Over Yakub Memon Overlooked This

  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?

• DMK chief M Karunanidhi asks for death penalty to be abolished

  DMK chief M Karunanidhi has appealed for the death penalty to be abolished. Earlier this month, Afzal Guru from Kashmir was hanged for his role in 2001's deadly attack on Parliament. In November, Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab was executed for the 26/11 strikes in Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.

• A day after Ajmal Kasab's execution, UN chief asks nations to abolish death penalty

  As India executed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called upon nations to abolish the death penalty.

• Supreme Court for 'fresh look' on criterion for awarding death penalty

  The Supreme Court has said its Constitution bench's landmark judgement of 1980 on criterion for imposing death penalty needs a "fresh look" as there has been "no uniformity" in following its principles on what constitutes "the rarest of rare" cases.

• A day before Kasab's hanging, India voted against abolition of death penalty at UN

  A record 110 countries backed a resolution voted every two years at a UN General Assembly committee calling for the abolition of the death penalty.

• Pakistan should expedite 26/11 trial after verdict on Kasab: Ujjwal Nikam

  With the Supreme Court upholding the death sentence of Ajmal Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam Pakistan wants the trial in Pakistan court to be expedited. "Death sentence awarded to Kasab should be executed as soon as possible so that it gives a strong signal to the terrorists that law takes stern...

• Supreme Court stays Kasab's death penalty for now

  The Supreme Court has suspended the death penalty given to 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab. This, is, however a technicality that is followed when the Supreme Court receives an appeal against a death sentence.

• Supreme Court likely to take up Kasab's letter on Friday

  The Supreme Court could take up, on Friday, Ajmal Kasab's letter against his death sentence. Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, had written a letter to the Supreme Court in March, challenging the death penalty handed out to him by the Bombay High Court.

• Ajmal Kasab appeals to Supreme Court against death penalty

  Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court judgment confirming the death sentence slapped on him by a trial court for his role in the carnage.

• Bombay High Court's judgement on Kasab's death sentence

  The Bombay High Court today upheld the death sentence handed out to 26/11 accused Ajmal Kasab by a trial court earlier.Here is the full text of the judgement:

• Death for Kasab; he killed Kamte, Salaskar, Karkare: Bombay High Court

  Ajmal Kasab, sporting a stubble and wearing a white kurta-pyjama, watched via video- conference as the Bombay High Court confirmed his death sentence for waging war against India with the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in 2008. He did not react after the verdict was announced."There is no scope of reform or rehabilitation of the Convicted-accused," said t...

• Kasab on video conference laughs during hearing

  The Bombay High Court has begun hearing Ajmal Kasab's appeal against his death sentence.Kasab is the only terrorist caught alive during 2008's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. 166 people were killed by ten Pakistanis who sailed to Mumbai from Karachi.He was found guilty of waging war against India on May 6 by a special court in Mumbai. He is imprisoned...

• Sandeep Unnikrishnan's father hails verdict

  Hailing the death penalty awarded to Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, K Unnikrishnan, father of National Security Guard commando Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was killed in the operation during the Mumbai terror attacks, said he did not want Kasab's hanging to be delayed.

• 'Brainwashed' Kasab can be reformed, argued his lawyers

  In the face of strong arguments put forth by the Prosecution that demanded death penalty for Kasab, the Defence urged the court to explore the possibility of Kasab's "reform" and "rehabilitation".