Under the new Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill (BNSS), a death-row convict whose mercy petition has been rejected by the president w...

The top court on March 21 had said it may consider setting up of a committee of experts to examine whether execution of death row convicts ...

A Delhi court on Wednesday offered Pawan Gupta, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, legal aid aft...

The lawyer for the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case Thursday moved a Delhi court seeking a stay on their execut...

A three-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said that it will pronounce the verdict on Wednesday on convict Mukesh Kumar Singh's plea...

Observing that the "finality" of death sentence is extremely important, the Supreme Court on Thursday said condemned prisoners should not b...

A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices N V Ramana, Arun Mishra, R F Nariman, R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan will hear o...

The review petition by convicts Vinay Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta came after the apex court on December 12 completed the hearing on the re...

The report also states that more than 80% of the death row inmates are subjected to 'inhuman, degrading and extreme forms of physical and m...

The ‘Death Penalty India Report’, released in Delhi on Friday, does not allege direct discrimination against prisoners from such background.

More than 8,000 prisoners are on death row in Pakistan and about 160 convicts have been executed since the Nawaz Sharif government lifted m...

Pakistan lifted moratorium on the death penalty after Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar and killed 136 students.

The Supreme Court pointed out that prisoners can file review petition and can also seek mercy from the President or Governor for commuting ...

Supreme Court stayed the execution of death row convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, a key conspirator with Dawood Ibrahim in the 1993 Mumbai s...

"The verdict places a strong emphasis on the human rights of all persons, and should steer the country towards completely doing away with t...

The court alleged that even the state government, besides various political leaders, are directly or indirectly supporting the cause of the...

As of today there are 22 other death row convicts waiting for a final word from the president on their mercy petitions. One of these petiti...