Press Trust of India | Aug 8, 2016, 12:57 AM IST
He attacked critics who said there was no death penalty in the EU, countering that capital punishment is used in the United States, Japan and China.
Press Trust of India | Jul 29, 2016, 8:18 PM IST
Government today said in Rajya Sabha that it is "not in favour" of abolishing the capital punishment considering the "prevailing circumstances" in the country.
Press Trust of India | Jun 7, 2016, 12:48 AM IST
The prosecution in 2002 Gulberg housing society massacre case today sought death penalty or life imprisonment till death for all the 24 convicts, calling the attack "barbaric and inhuman" even as a special court deferred further hearing on sentencing to June 9.
Press Trust of India | May 8, 2016, 2:59 PM IST
The report by Centre for Death Penalty of Delhi National Law University also states that more than 80 per cent of the death row inmates are subjected to 'inhuman, degrading and extreme forms of physical and mental torture' inside prisons.
Indo-Asian News Service | Mar 8, 2016, 9:20 PM IST
The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld death sentence for Mir Quasem Ali, former Al-Badr and Jammat-e-Islami Party leader, for being involved in atrocities against Bangalis during the Liberation War in 1971.
Press Trust of India | Feb 11, 2016, 9:31 PM IST
Twenty-one HuJI men including Hannan and an ex-junior minister of past BNP government are also being tried for a grenade attack on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004.The then opposition Awami League chief Hasina narrowly escaped the attack that killed 24 people.
Press Trust of India | Jan 17, 2016, 5:09 AM IST
The South Asian nation unveiled a sweeping plan to curb militancy after Taliban assailants gunned down more than 150 people, most of them children, at an army-run school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014
Press Trust of India | Sep 22, 2015, 5:38 PM IST
Pakistan today postponed the hanging of a paralysed death row convict due to lack of clarity of rules
Press Trust of India | Sep 12, 2015, 4:41 PM IST
The experts also welcomed the decision to reduce the number of crimes subject to death penalty by China.
Indo-Asian News Service | Aug 7, 2015, 3:43 AM IST
Pointing to the case of Afzal Guru, Karat said, "He didn't even get a chance after his mercy plea was rejected.
Press Trust of India | Aug 2, 2015, 2:03 AM IST
In a veiled reference towards Yakub Memon's execution, he said "A death penalty at the end of a long and tedious process is no deterrent"
Indo-Asian News Service | Jun 20, 2015, 4:57 PM IST
Washington, June 20: As the white young man who killed nine people at a historic US black church faced a court, many victims’ families forgave him, but South Carolina’s Indian American governor Nikki Haley sought the death penalty for him. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, who is reported to have confessed to Wednesday night’s horrific massacre at at […]
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