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9/11 mastermind faces death sentence: Trial at Guantanamo Bay could seal Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s fateKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks, may face the death penalty. A US court rejected a plea deal that would h...
Deterrent measures should be taken against those trying to threaten national security: Altaf Bukhari"NIA's plea demanding the death penalty for Yasin Malik highlights the urgency to address militant funding in Jammu and Kashmir. We must en...
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...
Death penalty is not open ended that can be challenged all the time by condemned prisoners: SCObserving that the "finality" of death sentence is extremely important, the Supreme Court on Thursday said condemned prisoners should not b...
Nirbhaya case: SC to hear review plea of a convict on December 17A 23-year-old paramedic student, who came to be known as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a...
A convict in Nirbhaya gang rape, murder case moves Supreme Court seeking review of death penaltyThe 23-year-old paramedic student was brutally gang raped on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012 inside a running bus in South De...
SC seeks Centre's reply on plea challenging mandatory death penalty under SC/ST ActThe plea said the legislature cannot compel courts and inflict upon them the "dubious" and "unconscionable" duty of imposing a "preordained...
Yakub Memon moves Supreme Court; seeks stay of execution of his death sentenceYakub Memon, the sole death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, moved the SC seeking stay of execution of his death sentence.
Yakub Memon seeks stay of execution of his death sentenceYakub Abdul Razak Memon, death row convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of execution of his ...
1993 Mumbai serial blasts; Supreme Court paves way for execution of Yakub Abdul Razak MemonAs the last legal recourse, he may file a curative plea in the apex court against the dismissal of his review petition and can also seek th...
Supreme Court upholds death penalty to Yakub Memon for 1993 Mumbai serial blasts caseSupreme Court today dismissed a plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon seeking review of award of death penalty to him in the 1993 Mumbai serial b...
1993 Mumbai blasts case: Supreme Court grants six weeks to CBISC granted 6 weeks more to CBI and others to file their responses on the plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, lone death row convict in the 199...
Death can be awarded inspite of young age: Chhattisgarh to Supreme CourtRaising objection to the submission of Sardar's counsel that the conviction should be re-visited, he said the circumstantial evidence prove...
1993 Mumbai blasts case: SC seeks reply of Maharashtra STF, CBIThe counsel appearing for Memon said that neither the trial court nor the apex court gave special reasons for sending him to gallows.
LTTE campaign delayed Rajiv Gandhi's killers’ hanging, source saysA close scrutiny of documents accessed under RTI shows that the 1999 verdict led to international and domestic pressure on the government.
- Chidambaram seeks debate on capital punishment
As the recent 'rejections' of mercy pleas of death row convicts have brought the capital punishment issue into focus, P Chidambaram said it...
- No death for Dara Singh in Staines case; SC upholds life term
Dara Singh was convicted for burning alive Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in January 1999.