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At least 720 executions in India since 1947According to the Project 39A data, 354 executions were carried out in Uttar Pradesh since Independence, followed by 90 in Haryana, 73 in Ma...- Nirbhaya hanging scheduled for Friday, convicts run out of legal optionsThe court was informed by the public prosecutor that second mercy pleas of Akshay and Pawan, were rejected on the ground that the first suc...
- Yakub Memon first in 31 years to be executed in Nagpur jailThe last convicts to be hanged in the Nagpur jail were Wankhede brothers from Amravati in 1984 after they were found guilty in a murder cas...
- APJ Abdul Kalam had opposed capital punishmentKalam had recently responded to a Law Commission consultation paper on capital punishment and had supported abolition of death sentence.
- Abdul Kalam favours abolition of death penaltyKalam was responding to a Law Commission consultation paper on capital punishment and was one of the few people who have supported abolitio...
- December 16 gangrape: Citing Kasab, court rejects plea for leniencyThe death sentence of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai attack found a mention in the verdict by a court while sending the four...
- Rope to hang Kasab made in Buxar jail?As secrecy shrouded the hanging of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, inmates and authorities of Buxar prison believe that the rope used for ...
- How Kasab might change Mumbai's take on capital punishmentMumbai’s reluctance to use capital punishment is at interesting variance from its usual craven capitulation to public or particular communi...
- Godhra Case: Special court awards capital punishment to 11A special court awarded capital punishment to 11 of the accused in the Godhra train burning case, upholding the conspiracy theory.
- Kasab conviction: Abolish the death sentence rather than hanging 'bullets'President Pratibha Patil commuting the death sentence of eight to life should prompt a discussion whether the country needs to hang anyone ...
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