The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea that a two-judge bench cannot hear appeals against convictions in the 2002 Godhra train burning ca...

The Supreme Court has scheduled the final hearing for May 6 and 7 regarding appeals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, involving the Gu...

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the po...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to direct the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty for violent criminals after taking off...

The Supreme Court will hear appeals on January 15 from the Gujarat government and convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case. The Gujar...

The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to eight accused persons in connection with the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case. The court, o...

Rajoana had moved to the top court two years ago seeking implementation of a decision taken by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) in ...

Trial 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...

According to NBC news sources, Oregon’s governor Kate Brown changed the punishment procedure of 17 commutes in the state by nullifying deat...

The 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...

While 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" ...

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.

In 2008, a two-judge SC bench in Swamy Shraddhanand vs Karnataka was divided over confirming death penalty though both trial and HC were un...

The Supreme Court has tightened the law to prevent the government from executing a mentally ill person like Punjab militant Devinder Pal Si...

MDMK Leader Vaiko described the ruling as "panacea" and "opening the way" for abolishing the death sentence in India.

DMK MPs asked the PM to recommend to the Prez commutation of the death sentence of the three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

While commuting a death penalty to life imprisonment, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said when conviction is based solely on circumstantial...