Punishment for murder must be life imprisonment or death, judges cannot award lower sentences: SC

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· Mar 27, 2018 · 03:00 pm

Rajasthan passes bill that makes rape of girls under 12 punishable by death

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· Mar 09, 2018 · 07:00 pm

Some Indian states are considering the death penalty for child rapists. But will it be effective?

Bhavya Dore

· Feb 09, 2018 · 06:30 am

We will enact law to award death for rapists of girls aged 12 or below: Haryana chief minister

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· Jan 20, 2018 · 08:04 pm

Pennsylvania sets February 23 as execution date of first death row prisoner of Indian origin in US

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· Jan 12, 2018 · 11:12 am

Death by hanging most viable method of execution, Centre tells Supreme Court

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· Jan 10, 2018 · 07:33 am

New study: Former top judges acknowledge crisis in criminal justice system, yet back death penalty

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· Dec 08, 2017 · 10:30 am

Madhya Pradesh Assembly passes bill to award death penalty for rape of minors aged 12 and below

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· Dec 04, 2017 · 04:50 pm

The big news: 12 Patidars in BJP’s latest list for Gujarat elections, and nine other top stories

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· Nov 27, 2017 · 08:46 am

Madhya Pradesh Cabinet approves bill to award death penalty to rapists of girls aged 12 and below

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· Nov 27, 2017 · 07:31 am

New York attacker should get death penalty, US President Donald Trump says on Twitter

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· Nov 02, 2017 · 03:22 pm

Indian Medical Association asks that doctors be excused from participating in execution of convicts

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· Oct 25, 2017 · 04:00 pm

‘In Pakistan, death penalty is for the poor’: Mother of mentally ill man on death row makes a plea

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· Oct 10, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre asking for alternatives to death by hanging

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· Oct 06, 2017 · 02:11 pm

Contradicting the Constitution: What India’s vote against UN resolution on death penalty means

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· Oct 04, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Soon, capital punishment likely in Uttar Pradesh for causing hooch deaths

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· Sep 21, 2017 · 12:56 pm

The big news: Abu Salem gets life in 1993 Mumbai blasts case, and 9 other top stories

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· Sep 07, 2017 · 08:44 pm

Granted the National Human Rights Commission is a ‘toothless tiger’, but can’t it even growl?

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· Aug 07, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Gopalkrishna Gandhi says he has asked Nawaz Sharif to reconsider Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death penalty

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· Jul 18, 2017 · 03:16 pm

Man of Indian origin executed in Singapore for smuggling heroin

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· Jul 15, 2017 · 08:35 am