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That the parliamentary committee that examined the proposed criminal statute, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, has not made a recommendation to abolish the death penalty is disappointing

"During the custody battle [in Saudi Arabia], Ghassan AlHaidari accused Bethany of gender mixing, adultery, and insulting Islam and Saudi Arabia. Gender mixing, a punishable crime, entails having a male friend. To prove the charge of adultery, Ghassan submitted a photograph of Bethany with a male, who Ghassan claimed to…

The verdict came in a petition filed by a murder convict who sought the commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment

Convict Asafak Alam was awarded death penalty on Nov 14, 2023 for rape and murder of a 5-yr-old girl in Aluva in Kerala. Judge K. Soman tried the case under POCSO and IPC. Alam was found guilty on 13 counts, including abduction, murder and rape. He was given life imprisonment…

Sirul Azhar Umar, sentenced in Malaysia over a politically charged murder, cannot be deported by Australia because he would face the death penalty

Pioneering lawyer and civil liberties campaigner who paved the way for the abolition of the death penalty in Britain

The state is seeking the death penalty for Shanna Gardner for killing of Jared Bridegan

Friends and families of the eight former Indian Navy personnel detained in Qatar and given the death penalty by a court in the Gulf country remain hopeful for early relief.

Justice Mishra highlighted how cases dealing with serious offences should not be tried in a hurry.