Capital Punishment

The Supreme Court has reopened the sentencing of death row convict Vasanta Dupare, who was convicted of raping and killing a four-year-old girl.

The special NIA court Monday announced the quantum of punishment for the nine Indian Mujahideen terrorists convicted in the 2013 Patna Gandhi Maidan serial blasts case.

Navid Afkari was executed by Iran on September 12, 2020, over the alleged murder of a security guard during the anti-government protests that swept the country in 2018.

Salim, who worked at a wood sawing unit outside Shabnam's home, came from a different socio-economic background than Shabnam and was a Class VI dropout.

“The Central Government may consider imposing punishment, such as, 'hanging' or 'death penalty', for corrupt practices or for demanding and accepting bribes, like in China, North Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Morocco", the High Court bench said.

The accused Basheer accosted the girl when she was going to a temple to pray for her ailing mother and molested and raped her

If the gory, gut-wrenching details of how Nirbhaya was subjected to fatal gang-rape do not ace the tests of rarest of the rare, inviting the maximum punishment of death penalty, what will?

UN asked countries to halt capital punishment a day after hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts in India

Arrangements for the execution of four rapists convicted in 2012 Nirbhaya case have begun at Tihar Jail