Death Penalty
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Kerala: 15 PFI-SDPI members sentenced to death for killing BJP leader
The men were held guilty of murdering the state secretary of the BJP’s OBC Morcha in Alappuzha town on December 19, 2021.
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Beant Singh assassination: SC refuses to commute death sentence of Balwant Singh Rajoana
Rajoana, convicted for the killing of the former Punjab chief minister, had urged the court to reduce his death sentence to life imprisonment.
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Death penalty: Centre tells SC it is considering forming panel to examine execution by hanging
The court is hearing a petition that has sought the abolishing of the practice of executing a death row convict by hanging, arguing that the method is cruel.
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Trial courts gave 165 death sentences last year – highest since 2000, shows report
By the end of 2022, a total of 539 persons were on death row in India, the highest since 2004, criminal reforms advocacy group Project 39A said.
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Death penalty: Five-judge Constitution bench to frame rules on mitigating circumstances
The Supreme Court is hearing a suo motu plea on how accused persons could present arguments against a death sentence before they are convicted.
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Why SC thinks courts humanely evaluating the accused could reduce rush to award death penalty
Currently, death penalties focus only on the crime and not the accused and their scope for reform.
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Beant Singh assassination: SC directs Centre to decide on convict’s mercy plea in two months
Balwant Singh Rajoana, a former Punjab police constable, wants his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment, saying he has served 26 years in jail.
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Number of prisoners on death row in India highest in 17 years, says report
As of December 31, 2020, a total of 404 prisoners were on death row, an increase of nearly 21% from 2020.
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Complainant’s age is not the only criteria for death penalty in rape-murder cases, says SC
The court commuted the death penalty of a man convicted for raping and murdering a five-year-old girl in Karnataka in 2010.
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The Reel
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Singapore court delays hanging of Malaysian man after he contracts coronavirus
The man of Indian origin was given death penalty in 2010 after he was caught with drugs. Human rights groups have urged Singapore to reconsider his execution.
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‘An obscene law’: How Tamil writer Sundara Ramaswamy argued against the death penalty in 1999
Ramaswamy was responding to 26 convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case being sentenced to death. After an appeal, the sentence was confirmed for four.
Sundara Ramaswamy
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Beant Singh assassination: SC gives Centre two weeks to decide on convict’s mercy plea
The Centre sought three weeks to decide on the nine-year-old mercy plea of convict Balwant Singh Rajoana.
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The Field
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Archery, World Cup Stage I: Jyothi Surekha Vennam finishes second in women’s compound qualification
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Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula overtakes Manika Batra as India’s highest ranked women’s singles paddler
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