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Brazil's Congress overrides Lula's veto of a bill to reduce Bolsonaro's sentenceBrazil's Congress has voted to reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison sentence for plotting a coup. This decision overrides Presid...
Quote of the day by 19th-century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky: ‘The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he is in prison.’Fyodor Dostoevsky, a pivotal 19th-century Russian thinker, explored human psychology, sin, and faith through his profound novels. His writi...
Sathankulam custodial deaths: Nine police personnel sentenced to death by courtNine police officers received the death penalty for the brutal custodial torture and murder of P Jayaraj and his son J Bennix in Sathankula...
Kolkata Court sentences man to death for rape and attempted murder of infantA special Pocso court in Kolkata sentenced Rajiv Ghosh to death for the brutal rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old girl. Describ...
Mamata Banerjee 'shocked' at R G Kar verdict, says it's 'not our job to provide protection to criminals'West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized a local court's decision to withhold the death penalty in the RG Kar rape and murder ...
RG Kar doctor case: 'We did not get justice', say 'unhappy' parents of victimThe parents of the RG Kar doctor who was raped and murdered in the hospital expressed unhappiness with the life imprisonment sentence for S...
RG Kar Case: Why was Abhaya's rapist Sanjoy Roy not given death penalty?Sanjoy Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sealdah Additional District and Sessions Court for the rape and murder of an on-duty d...
Former banker in China sentenced to death for taking bribesFormer banker sentenced to death for accepting bribes at China Huarong International Holdings amid President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption d...
Delhi High Court upholds death penalty of three youths for rape, murder of girlThe court also said that the convicts cannot be punished under the new amended rape law as the amendments were carried out after the commis...
- Rarest of rare test needs society's approval: Supreme Court
"Courts award death sentence, because situation demands, due to constitutional compulsion,"bench said.
Supreme Court firm on death penalty for terror acts, rape-murder casesIt also had also shown no leniency, with few aberrations, to those convicted in rape-murder cases, especially involving minors and mentally...
Death sentence in murder-rape case commuted to life term by SCStrongly reacting to the court's recent judgement, the victim's family today said the perpetrator of the crime had "no right to live".
Supreme Court calls for relook at norms on death penaltySC said the 'rarest of rare' criterion to impose death penalty was being applied differently by different judges and needed to be looked at...
9 death penalties wrongly imposed: Ex-judges to PresidentThey are on death row even after the Supreme Court admitted — not once but thrice — that the decisions awarding death sentences had been re...
- It is not for judiciary to repeal or amend the law on capital punishment, says SC
SC upheld the death sentence awarded to an appellant businessman for the gruesome killings of his wife, son and 2 daughters.
- NHRC chief favours continuance of death penalty
NHRC says it has a deterrent effect in a country where 'crimes are on the rise'.
- Kasab would get death penalty if found guilty: Legal experts
If the court finds him guilty, Kasab is most likely to get capital punishment.