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"Go To Hell": Trump Refuses To Wish Clemency Recipients 'Merry Christmas'
US President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death-row inmates, reducing their punishment to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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US CFTC Orders Fallen Crypto Exchange FTX to Pay $12.7 Billion to Customers
The CFTC agreement resolves a potential roadblock to that repayment, ensuring that the government's lawsuit against FTX will not reduce the funds available to its customers. The CFTC agreed not to collect any payment from FTX until all its customers are repaid, with interest.
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40 Years On, Life Term Of 3 Convicts In 'Murder' Over Mangoes Cut To 7 Years
Forty years after three men were booked for murder following a trivial fight among children over mangoes in an Uttar Pradesh village, the Supreme Court has come to their rescue by reducing the life sentence to a seven-year jail term.
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Court Allows Gangster Abu Salem's Reduced Term Petition In 1993 Blasts Case
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday allowed an application of gangster Abu Salem, serving life sentence in the the 1993 serial blasts case, for reduced jail term in lieu of the detention period during trial.
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Paying Compensation To Victim Cannot Be Ground To Reduce Sentence: Supreme Court
If payment of compensation becomes a consideration for reducing a sentence, it will have a "catastrophic" effect on the criminal justice administration, the Supreme Court has said.
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Big Relief For 8 Indian Navy Veterans On Death Row In Qatar
Eight ex-Navy personnel sentenced to death by a Qatar court in October - over espionage allegations - will face commuted punishments, the Indian government said this afternoon.
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Rape Victim "Happily Married", Supreme Court Reduces Convict's Jail Sentence
The Supreme Court has reduced the sentence of a man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl noting her statement that she is happily married and not interested in pursuing the matter further.
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145 Maharashtra Prisoners' Sentences Reduced After Securing Degrees
One is a convicted murderer while the other is serving time for theft. The two are among 145 prisoners in Maharashtra who were given reductions in their respective sentences for completing graduation, and post-graduation programmes.
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Court Reduces Jail Term In Assault Case, Says "Accused Man Of Poor Means"
A Delhi sessions court has upheld the conviction of a man for sodomising a minor boy in 2010 but reduced his jail term from three years to five months, noting that he had undergone trial for around 13 years, there was no record of his involvement
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Theranos Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes' 11-Year Prison Sentence Reduced By 2 Years: Report
The Theranos founder was convicted in January 2022 for persuading investors over 15 years that she had developed a revolutionary medical device.
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"Undue Sympathy": Supreme Court Cancels High Court Order Reducing Sentence
Referring to a previous judgement of the Supreme Court, the bench noted it was observed that the top court had, time and again, emphasised the need to strictly punish offenders responsible for causing motor vehicle accidents.
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Thailand Man Gets 28 Years In Jail For Online Posts Against Monarchy
His prison sentence was originally 42 years but the court reduced it following his testimony, his lawyer told AFP.
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"Hang Rapists Publicly": Minister's Suggestion To Reduce Crime
Madhya Pradesh minister Usha Thakur on Thursday demanded that rapists be publicly hanged so that this kind of punishment serves as a strong deterrent for others and nobody dares to indulge in such crimes again.
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Singapore Court Reduces Sentence Of Indian-Origin Man Convicted Of Rape
Singapore's top court on Wednesday reduced the jail term of an Indian-origin man who was convicted of raping a stranger's blindfolded girlfriend in a "threesome" planned without the woman's knowledge in 2016.
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Judge Caught Kissing Convict Whose Sentence She Tried To Reduce
An Argentinian judge, Mariel Suarez, is being investigated after she was filmed kissing a prisoner who was convicted for killing a police officer.
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"Go To Hell": Trump Refuses To Wish Clemency Recipients 'Merry Christmas'
US President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death-row inmates, reducing their punishment to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
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US CFTC Orders Fallen Crypto Exchange FTX to Pay $12.7 Billion to Customers
The CFTC agreement resolves a potential roadblock to that repayment, ensuring that the government's lawsuit against FTX will not reduce the funds available to its customers. The CFTC agreed not to collect any payment from FTX until all its customers are repaid, with interest.
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40 Years On, Life Term Of 3 Convicts In 'Murder' Over Mangoes Cut To 7 Years
Forty years after three men were booked for murder following a trivial fight among children over mangoes in an Uttar Pradesh village, the Supreme Court has come to their rescue by reducing the life sentence to a seven-year jail term.
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Court Allows Gangster Abu Salem's Reduced Term Petition In 1993 Blasts Case
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday allowed an application of gangster Abu Salem, serving life sentence in the the 1993 serial blasts case, for reduced jail term in lieu of the detention period during trial.
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Paying Compensation To Victim Cannot Be Ground To Reduce Sentence: Supreme Court
If payment of compensation becomes a consideration for reducing a sentence, it will have a "catastrophic" effect on the criminal justice administration, the Supreme Court has said.
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Big Relief For 8 Indian Navy Veterans On Death Row In Qatar
Eight ex-Navy personnel sentenced to death by a Qatar court in October - over espionage allegations - will face commuted punishments, the Indian government said this afternoon.
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Rape Victim "Happily Married", Supreme Court Reduces Convict's Jail Sentence
The Supreme Court has reduced the sentence of a man convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl noting her statement that she is happily married and not interested in pursuing the matter further.
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145 Maharashtra Prisoners' Sentences Reduced After Securing Degrees
One is a convicted murderer while the other is serving time for theft. The two are among 145 prisoners in Maharashtra who were given reductions in their respective sentences for completing graduation, and post-graduation programmes.
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Court Reduces Jail Term In Assault Case, Says "Accused Man Of Poor Means"
A Delhi sessions court has upheld the conviction of a man for sodomising a minor boy in 2010 but reduced his jail term from three years to five months, noting that he had undergone trial for around 13 years, there was no record of his involvement
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Theranos Fraudster Elizabeth Holmes' 11-Year Prison Sentence Reduced By 2 Years: Report
The Theranos founder was convicted in January 2022 for persuading investors over 15 years that she had developed a revolutionary medical device.
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"Undue Sympathy": Supreme Court Cancels High Court Order Reducing Sentence
Referring to a previous judgement of the Supreme Court, the bench noted it was observed that the top court had, time and again, emphasised the need to strictly punish offenders responsible for causing motor vehicle accidents.
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Thailand Man Gets 28 Years In Jail For Online Posts Against Monarchy
His prison sentence was originally 42 years but the court reduced it following his testimony, his lawyer told AFP.
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"Hang Rapists Publicly": Minister's Suggestion To Reduce Crime
Madhya Pradesh minister Usha Thakur on Thursday demanded that rapists be publicly hanged so that this kind of punishment serves as a strong deterrent for others and nobody dares to indulge in such crimes again.
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Singapore Court Reduces Sentence Of Indian-Origin Man Convicted Of Rape
Singapore's top court on Wednesday reduced the jail term of an Indian-origin man who was convicted of raping a stranger's blindfolded girlfriend in a "threesome" planned without the woman's knowledge in 2016.
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Judge Caught Kissing Convict Whose Sentence She Tried To Reduce
An Argentinian judge, Mariel Suarez, is being investigated after she was filmed kissing a prisoner who was convicted for killing a police officer.
