Death Penalty
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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‘Very worrying and disturbing’: British MPs debate persecution of minorities in India
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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The Field
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