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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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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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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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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Death By Hanging Cruel? Supreme Court Asks Centre To Begin Discussion
The Centre should consider whether there can be a "less painful" alternative to death by hanging way of carrying out death sentences than hanging, the Supreme Court said today.
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Madhya Pradesh Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old In 2017 To Be Released
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a 20-year-old man, who was awarded the death penalty for rape and murder of a four-year-old child in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in 2017.
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Gujarat Seeks Death Penalty For 11 Godhra Train Burning Convicts
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for the death penalty to 11 convicts whose sentences in the 2002 Godhra train burning case were commuted to life imprisonment by the state's high court.
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Iran Rapper, Protester To Face Retrial On Death Over Anti-Hijab Protest
Iran's supreme court has ordered the retrial of two men, including a Kurdish rapper, who were reportedly sentenced to death over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, the judiciary said Saturday.
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Supreme Court Stays Death Penalty Given To Man For Killing Wife, Children
The Supreme Court stayed the execution of the death sentence given to a man convicted of killing his wife and children by an Allahabad High Court bench.
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Death Penalty Of Man Who Raped, Murdered Minor Suspended By Supreme Court
In a relief to a death row convict, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a watchman who was convicted for killing a minor girl after sexually assaulting her in Maharashtra's Thane district in 2013.
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Supreme Court Acquits 3 Men On Death Row For Teen's Rape-Murder In 2012
The Supreme Court today acquitted three convicts who were awarded the death penalty by a Delhi court after being held guilty of raping and killing a 19-year-old woman in Delhi's Chhawala area in 2012.
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Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence To Terrorist In 2000 Red Fort Attack
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist seeking review of its verdict awarding death penalty to him in the sensational 2000 Red Fort attack case.
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To Frame Uniform Rules On Death Penalty, Supreme Court's Latest Move
The Supreme Court referred to a five-judge Constitution bench a suo motu case concerning the framing of uniform guidelines for the trial courts on granting "real and meaningful opportunity" on death penalty.
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Not Our Effort To Make Death Penalty "Redundant": What Supreme Court Said
The judicial process would be compromising on its objectivity if the approach is to find ways to avoid awarding death penalty in cases where they passed the muster of judicial scrutiny, the Supreme Court said on Friday.
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Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty For Rajasthan Man Who Raped, Killed Minor
The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a physically and mentally challenged seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, and noted that the crime was brutal and inhuman.
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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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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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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.
-
Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Death By Hanging Cruel? Supreme Court Asks Centre To Begin Discussion
The Centre should consider whether there can be a "less painful" alternative to death by hanging way of carrying out death sentences than hanging, the Supreme Court said today.
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Madhya Pradesh Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old In 2017 To Be Released
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a 20-year-old man, who was awarded the death penalty for rape and murder of a four-year-old child in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in 2017.
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Gujarat Seeks Death Penalty For 11 Godhra Train Burning Convicts
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for the death penalty to 11 convicts whose sentences in the 2002 Godhra train burning case were commuted to life imprisonment by the state's high court.
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Iran Rapper, Protester To Face Retrial On Death Over Anti-Hijab Protest
Iran's supreme court has ordered the retrial of two men, including a Kurdish rapper, who were reportedly sentenced to death over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, the judiciary said Saturday.
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Supreme Court Stays Death Penalty Given To Man For Killing Wife, Children
The Supreme Court stayed the execution of the death sentence given to a man convicted of killing his wife and children by an Allahabad High Court bench.
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Death Penalty Of Man Who Raped, Murdered Minor Suspended By Supreme Court
In a relief to a death row convict, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a watchman who was convicted for killing a minor girl after sexually assaulting her in Maharashtra's Thane district in 2013.
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Supreme Court Acquits 3 Men On Death Row For Teen's Rape-Murder In 2012
The Supreme Court today acquitted three convicts who were awarded the death penalty by a Delhi court after being held guilty of raping and killing a 19-year-old woman in Delhi's Chhawala area in 2012.
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Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence To Terrorist In 2000 Red Fort Attack
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist seeking review of its verdict awarding death penalty to him in the sensational 2000 Red Fort attack case.
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To Frame Uniform Rules On Death Penalty, Supreme Court's Latest Move
The Supreme Court referred to a five-judge Constitution bench a suo motu case concerning the framing of uniform guidelines for the trial courts on granting "real and meaningful opportunity" on death penalty.
-
Not Our Effort To Make Death Penalty "Redundant": What Supreme Court Said
The judicial process would be compromising on its objectivity if the approach is to find ways to avoid awarding death penalty in cases where they passed the muster of judicial scrutiny, the Supreme Court said on Friday.
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Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty For Rajasthan Man Who Raped, Killed Minor
The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a physically and mentally challenged seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, and noted that the crime was brutal and inhuman.
