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Alabama asks appeals court to let it continue nitrogen gas executionsAlabama is fighting a court battle to execute Jeffery Lee using nitrogen gas on Thursday. A federal judge ruled the method unconstitutional...- Boarding moving trains may soon cost you Rs 2,000, RPF mulling on-the-spot fines: ReportCommuters face new fines for boarding or alighting from moving trains. The Railway Protection Force is introducing penalties up to Rs 2,000...
- One of Iran's most powerful families founded its largest crypto exchange. It's used by the IRGC to move millionsIran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex, is controlled by the sons of the influential Kharrazi family, who concealed their ties for...
- SC rejects convicts' plea against 2-judge bench hearing Godhra train burning appealsThe Supreme Court has dismissed the plea that a two-judge bench cannot hear appeals against convictions in the 2002 Godhra train burning ca...
- SC to hear on May 6, 7 pleas of Gujarat, convicts in Godhra train burning caseThe Supreme Court has scheduled the final hearing for May 6 and 7 regarding appeals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, involving the Gu...
- 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...
- Donald Trump promises to reinstate the death penalty for rapists, murderers, and monsters after Biden's clemency moveU.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to direct the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty for violent criminals after taking off...
- Godhra carnage case: No more adjournments, next hearing on January 15; Supreme Court saysThe Supreme Court will hear appeals on January 15 from the Gujarat government and convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. The Gujar...
- SC grants bail to eight accused in 2002 Godhra train coach-burning caseThe Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to eight accused persons in connection with the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case. The court, o...
- 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 ...
- 165 death sentences by trial courts in 2022, highest since 2000: ReportTrial courts across the country imposed 165 death sentences in 2022, which is the highest in a single year in the last two decades, a repor...
- Oregon governor Kate Brown commutes all 17 of the state's death sentencesAccording to NBC news sources, Oregon’s governor Kate Brown changed the punishment procedure of 17 commutes in the state by nullifying deat...
- President is seized of Balwant S Rajoana's plea for commutation of death penalty: Centre to SCThe Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that President Ram Nath Kovind is seized of the matter pertaining to Balwant S Rajoana's plea s...
- Jigisha murder: HC commutes death penalty to 2 to life termWhile sentencing the two to death, the trial court had said the 28-year-old woman was killed in a "cold-blooded, inhuman and cruel manner" ...
- Supreme Court: If we end death penalty, shouldn't life term be till death?But it has been reluctant to completely do away with award of death penalty , saying there were certain cases where, as long as the extreme.
- Yakub Memon execution: Even in 2008, SC bench was split on confirming deathIn 2008, a two-judge SC bench in Swamy Shraddhanand vs Karnataka was divided over confirming death penalty though both trial and HC were un...
- Supreme Court tightens the law to prevent secret hangingsThe Supreme Court has tightened the law to prevent the government from executing a mentally ill person like Punjab militant Devinder Pal Si...
- "SC ruling gives hope for death row convicts in Rajiv case"MDMK Leader Vaiko described the ruling as "panacea" and "opening the way" for abolishing the death sentence in India.
- Commute death sentence of 3 convicts in Rajiv case: DMK to PMDMK MPs asked the PM to recommend to the Prez commutation of the death sentence of the three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
- No death penalty based on circumstantial evidence: SCWhile commuting a death penalty to life imprisonment, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said when conviction is based solely on circumstantial...
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