‘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

· Jun 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm

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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· Jan 25, 2021 · 01:58 pm

In his last-minute killing spree, Donald Trump has trampled over an array of legal barriers

Court records show private executioners being paid in cash, middle-of-the-night killings and false or incomplete justifications.

Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica

· Dec 26, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Trump administration is holding out the prospect of using cruel, discredited methods of execution

It is aiming to kill as many death row inmates as possible before Joe Biden takes office and ends capital punishment.

Austin Sarat, The Conversation

· Dec 06, 2020 · 11:30 am

Death penalty: Supreme Court sets six-month deadline for itself to list appeals for hearing

The court issued an office order on Wednesday to give guidelines for the handling of death-row cases expeditiously.

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· Feb 15, 2020 · 08:48 am

SC agrees to examine Centre’s plea seeking ‘victim-centric’ rules in cases of death penalty

The bench sought response from the stakeholders on whose petition the court had laid down the guidelines in 2014.

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· Jan 31, 2020 · 01:44 pm

Chief Justice Bobde says death-row convicts ‘cannot go on fighting endlessly’

He said the Supreme Court should focus on the rights of the victims.

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· Jan 23, 2020 · 05:00 pm

Centre moves Supreme Court to seek ‘victim-centric’ rules in death row cases

The government sought a time limit for convicts to use the last legal options available to them.

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· Jan 22, 2020 · 06:03 pm

2012 Delhi gangrape case: ‘Death penalty not a deterrent against crimes,’ say women’s rights groups

Sixteen organisations and over 360 individuals urged President Ram Nath Kovind to stop the execution of the four convicts.

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· Jan 15, 2020 · 09:54 pm

Manipur: Man gets first death penalty for murder in state’s history

Yumkhaibam Rohit was convicted for the murder of his girlfriend. His accomplice was sentenced to life in prison.

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· Feb 06, 2019 · 12:37 pm

Madhya Pradesh: Man gets death sentence for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl

Director of Public Prosecution Rajendra Kumar said this was the eleventh case where a person was sentenced to death for sexually assaulting a minor.

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· Aug 20, 2018 · 10:36 pm

Why Japan is reluctant to retry the world’s longest-serving death row inmate

Iwao Hakamada was tried for quadruple murder in 1966, but the evidence that convicted him is regarded with widespread scepticism.

Mai Sato, The Conversation

· Jul 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm