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SC rejects plea to replace hanging with less painful method for death penaltyThe Supreme Court has dismissed a plea challenging hanging as the method of executing death sentences, while leaving the door open for futu...- State can't take life arbitrarily or without dignity: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court ruled that state execution powers are not arbitrary. The method of execution must uphold human dignity and minimize suffe...
- SC upholds hanging as mode of death penalty; dismisses PIL for alternative way to execute death row prisonersThe Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking an alternative method of execution for death row convicts, rejecting the challenge to hangin...
- Renting a home? Key rights every tenant and landlord should knowA recent Supreme Court ruling bolsters landlord positions in eviction disputes across India. This decision clarifies ownership proof requir...
- Wife refused to leave sister-in-law’s house after husband moved out; Delhi HC orders her evictionA Delhi High Court ruling has affirmed a woman's eviction from her sister-in-law's inherited property. The court stated that once a husband...
- Examining painless death penalty issue at highest level: GovtThe government informed the Supreme Court that the method of carrying out the death penalty, specifically hanging versus alternative method...
- Outgoing North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentencesNorth Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the po...
- US state Alabama to implement pure nitrogen execution method. Check history, methods of capital punishment in AmericaAlabama is on the verge of making history as the first state in the United States to employ a novel execution approach—administering death ...
- SC reserves order on Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea seeking to commute his death penaltyRajoana had moved to the top court two years ago seeking implementation of a decision taken by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) in ...
- In many death penalty verdicts, trial courts overlooked mitigating circumstances of accused, finds studyAnalysis of cases in three states from 2000 to 2015 show “collective conscience” often invoked by courts while pronouncing death penalty.
- PIL in Madras HC against section in Continental Shelf ActStating that the act prescribed death penalty as the only punishment for offences that led to the death of a person, the PIL contended that...
- Government not in favour of abolishing death penalty: Kiren RijijuIndia has its own basis of formulating laws and it has to respect the "sentiments of the people", Rijiju added.
- UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein slams Saudi Arabia for 47 executions"Convictions cannot be based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, or trial proceedings that fall short of international...
- Death penalty becomes stumbling block for India-Germany MLATThe provision of death penalty has become a stumbling block for India and Germany to sign a pact for cooperation on criminal matters.
- Law Commission for "swift" scrapping of capital punishmentLaw Commission recommended by a majority "swift" abolition of death penalty except in terror-related cases, noting it does not serve the pe...
- Seeking end to death penalty, DMK's Kanimozhi set to move private member’s billKanimozhi's bill seeks to 'abolish capital punishment' and substitute all references of punishment by death with imprisonment for life in a...
- Bangladesh warns protesters of tough anti-terrorism measuresOfficials said the cabinet preferred to activate the existing law after reviewing options to enact fresh laws to handle the unrest.
- Criminals don’t fear death penalty — they fear police efficiency: Robert Badinter, former Minister of Justice, FranceIn a civilised world, especially in a democratic country, there should be no such punishment, as in a democracy the first right of a person...
- Death penalty should be abolished even for terrorists: Justice VR Krishna IyerJustice VR Krishna Iyer says death penalty should be abolished even for terrorists as by hanging a terrorist would not deter future terror ...
- Why mandatory death penalty be not abolished? Supreme Court asksSC asked the Union government why provisions in some laws mandating compulsory death penalty as punishment be not struck down as unconstitu...
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