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.

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· Jul 04, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Thailand conducts first execution in nine years, Amnesty International condemns move

Murder convict Theerasak Longji was put to death by a lethal injection.

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· Jun 19, 2018 · 04:41 pm

Death by hanging is less barbaric than execution by lethal injection, firing squad: Centre tells SC

The government made this point in a counter-affidavit filed in response to a plea seeking alternative methods of executing death row convicts.

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· Apr 24, 2018 · 06:22 pm

Iraqi court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for fighting for the Islamic State

The country has been conducting trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained since strongholds of the terror group stared falling to troops.

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· Feb 26, 2018 · 09:42 am

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

However, Raghunandan Yandamuri may not be killed as there is a moratorium on the death penalty in the state.

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· Jan 12, 2018 · 11:12 am