Death Penalty

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Mukesh Singh and the others have had no counselling, no working with facing what they did and Asha Devi only wants them dead.

The death penalty for rape is ineffectual

Latika Vashist has argued compellingly for the need for forgiveness in these pages.

25 Jan 2020 1:10 AM

Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde

Rethink death penalty

The timing and the context of the CJI’s remarks, however, offer reasons to worry.

25 Jan 2020 1:08 AM

Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi outside the court on Wednesday. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

A letter to Asha Devi, mother of ‘Nirbhaya’

In the Indian Penal Code, the punishment for rape is now 10 years of imprisonment, even as it is a criminal offence and not a civil wrong

20 Dec 2019 5:52 AM

In high treason case, ex-Pak Prez Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death

He was one of the Pakistan’s longest-serving rulers. He served as the President from 2001 to 2008.

17 Dec 2019 12:43 PM

‘Don’t believe in death penalty, even for Nirbhaya rapists’

The death penalty has no place in a civilised society. A civilised society does not exact revenge on a convict, says Sunil Gupta.

15 Dec 2019 6:44 AM

One of the four convicts, Akshay Kumar Singh, moved the Supreme Court Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgement handing down death penalty to all of them in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. (Photo: File)

Life is going short, why death penalty: Nirbhaya convict files review petiton

The apex court, on July 9, 2018, had dismissed the review pleas filed by three other convicts in the case.

10 Dec 2019 7:25 PM

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea filed by a death row convict seeking review of its verdict affirming capital punishment imposed on him for "horribly" gangraping a minor girl and later killing her along with her brother in Coimbatore in 2010. (Photo: File)

Supreme Court reconfirms death penalty in Coimbatore rape and murder case

'In view of the majority judgement, the review petition stands dismissed in its entirety,' the bench said.

07 Nov 2019 11:20 AM

He was electrocuted at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville and pronounced dead at 7:27 pm local time (00:27 GMT). (Photo: AP)

Murder convict picks electrocution over lethal injection in final hours

Stephen West, who was convicted in the two killings more than 30 years ago, waited until Wednesday to choose his method of execution.

16 Aug 2019 11:43 AM

On Monday, the high court commuted the punishment from death penalty to life imprisonment.

BPO case: Women’s panel to intervene

The high court and Supreme Court had awarded the death penalty to the accused.

01 Aug 2019 1:51 AM

The Saudi government has long denied involvement in the attacks, in which hijacked airplanes crashed into New York's World Trade Centre, the Pentagon outside Washington, DC, and a Pennsylvania field. Nearly 3,000 people died. (Photo: File)

9/11 mastermind offers to help victims' family if US drops death penalty charges

Michael Kellogg, a Washington-based lawyer for the Saudi government, declined to comment.

30 Jul 2019 9:17 AM

The state government during the hearing had vehemently opposed the petition and sought its rejection.

Pune rape: Death penalty commuted to life in prison

Court held that cops delayed execution of penalty.

30 Jul 2019 2:00 AM

There are currently 62 federal inmates on death row, including Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who planted a deadly bomb at the Boston Marathon in 2013. (Representational Image)

After 16 yrs, US to resume use of death penalty; first execution scheduled for Dec

Lee will be the first one to be executed, with the date set for December 9, 2019.

26 Jul 2019 4:12 PM

The convict was also sentenced to life for the offence of unnatural sex with the eight-year-old girl, state prosecution cell's spokesperson Sudha Vijay Singh Bhadoriya told PTI. (Photo: Representational image)

Bhopal court awards death penalty to man who raped minor within 32 days

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court ordered all the sentences to run concurrently, judge said.

11 Jul 2019 7:17 PM

Last week, President Maithripala Sirisena announced that he had signed the documents for execution of four big-time drug operators currently convicted and awaiting death sentence. (Photo: AP)

10 fundamental rights petitions filed in Sri Lankan SC against death penalty

The petitioners argued that it would result in the violation of fundamental rights as established in Article 12 (1) of the constitution.

01 Jul 2019 6:19 PM

On Friday, accused counsel Yug Choudhary, questioned the idea behind section 376 (E) that provides death sentence for a repeat offender of rape. (Representational image)

Lawyer questions death for rapist

The trio was sentenced to death by sessions court for committing two gang rapes at Shakti Mill compound.

23 Feb 2019 2:49 AM

'Our children should be protected from sexual offences,' Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. (Photo: ANI)

Death penalty for aggravated assault under POCSO Act: Law Minister

The decision comes in the wake of the rising number of crimes against children being reported from across the country.

28 Dec 2018 5:04 PM

Family members of victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots celebrate outside the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi on Tuesday after the pronouncement of the first death sentence in the case. (Photo: Asian Age)

Delhi court awards death to convict in 1984 riots case

1st death penalty based on SIT investigation.

21 Nov 2018 12:47 AM

On November 14, the court had convicted Yashpal Singh and Naresh Sherawat for killing Hardev Singh and Avtar Singh in south Delhi’s Mahipalpur during the 1984 riots. (Photo: File | PTI)

1984 anti-Sikh riots: Death sentence to one convict, other gets life term

Yashpal Singh was awarded death penalty while his co-convict in the case, Naresh Sherawat has been sentenced for life.

20 Nov 2018 5:33 PM

Once the death penalty is scrapped, Malaysia will have the moral authority to fight for the lives of Malaysians facing death sentences abroad. (Representational Image)

Malaysia to abolish death penalty, says minister

Capital punishment in Malaysia is currently mandatory for murder, kidnapping, possession of firearms and drug trafficking.

11 Oct 2018 2:59 PM

According to police, the girl was sedated with injections, drug-laced soft drinks and made to sniff a powder by the accused before sexually assaulting her repeatedly. (Representational image)

Chennai: 17 accused of raping teen may get death penalty

Charge sheet was filed before a Mahila court in Chennai for cases under POCSO Act, nearly two months after the incident came to the fore.

13 Sep 2018 10:56 AM

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