West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expressed dissatisfaction with the court's verdict in the RG Kar junior doctor's rape and murder case, quest...

India follows the 'rarest of the rare' principle for the death penalty. But there are no clear guidelines on what is meant by 'rarest of th...

In the Aluva rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl case, a special POCSO court in Kerala has handed down a death sentence to Ashwaq Alam. Ke...

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared on behalf of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), argued that the accused indulged in terr...

Calling it an "extremely shameful" incident, he said, "I appeal that the accused, despite whatever influence they might hold, be given stri...

In his inaugural address, Gopalkrishna Gandhi while opposing death penalty said ending life of a person was a "perk" available to a State.

"Courts award death sentence, because situation demands, due to constitutional compulsion,"bench said.

It also had also shown no leniency, with few aberrations, to those convicted in rape-murder cases, especially involving minors and mentally...

"The law today supports the view that the identity of the rape victim should not be disclosed,''

CPM has suggested enhancement of punishment in sexual offences and proposed life imprisonment and even death in rarest of rare cases.

Supreme Court, upholding the decision of the trial court which was affirmed by the Bombay high court, had said that there was no escaping t...

SC said the 'rarest of rare' criterion to impose death penalty was being applied differently by different judges and needed to be looked at...

SC upheld the death sentence awarded to an appellant businessman for the gruesome killings of his wife, son and 2 daughters.

Supreme Court today directed courts to view such cases as "rarest of rare" category for awarding death penalty to the convicts.

Dara Singh was convicted for burning alive Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in January 1999.

If the court finds him guilty, Kasab is most likely to get capital punishment.

Pravin Mahajan was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment for the cold blooded murder of his elder brother and senior BJP leader Pramod ...