Odisha teacher death: Father demands death penalty for culprits

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 23:09

Rejecting the ex-gratia payment announced by Odisha government, father of the lady teacher who was allegedly burnt to death for not withdrawing a molestation case against her senior, demanded capital punishment for the culprits.

Courts should give special reasons for awarding death penalty: SC

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 19:28

Courts should record "special" reasons while awarding death penalty and "must" take into account the crime, the Supreme Court has ruled.

152 Bangladeshi soldiers sentenced to death for 2009 mutiny

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 14:46

A Bangladeshi court today handed down death penalty to 167 former paramilitary soldiers after convicting them guilty of killing 74 people, including 57 army officers, during a mutiny in 2009.

Dec 16 gang-rape: HC begins hearing arguments on death reference

Last Updated: Friday, November 1, 2013, 20:20

The Delhi High Court on Friday commenced hearing final arguments in the trial court`s reference to it for confirmation of death sentence awarded to four convicts in December 16 gang-rape case.

US man guilty of killing 8 in mobile home

Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 09:03

A man was convicted on Friday of killing his father and seven extended family members in a mobile home they all shared, though prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Iran minister says no need to re-hang convict

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 10:18

An Iranian news agency says the justice minister has concluded there is "no need" to finish off a convict who survived his hanging. A report today by the semi-official ISNA quoted Mostafa Pourmohammadi as saying there is "no need for re-execution" of the 37-year-old convicted of smuggling drugs who only was identified by his first name, Alireza.

Larger bench of SC hears pleas of death row convicts

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 19:59

The Supreme Court on Tuesday commenced hearing on a batch of petitions filed by condemned prisoners seeking commutation of their death sentence into life imprisonment on account of delay in carrying out the execution following dismissal of their mercy petitions by the President.

Iraq executes 42 `terrorism` convicts in a week

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 20:09

Iraq has executed 42 "terrorism" convicts over the past week, the justice minister said on Thursday, defying condemnation of its extensive use of the death penalty as violence intensifies.

Amnesty urges India to commute death sentences

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 15:10

Amnesty International urged the Indian authorities to commute all death sentences to life imprisonment and impose a moratorium on executions.

Naroda Patiya case: SIT may seek SC guidance on Kodnani death penalty issue

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 00:37

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the 2002 riots, may seek guidance from the Supreme Court on the issue of death penalty for former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, convicted in the Naroda Patiya case.

SC wants law for life imprisonment without remission

Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 22:09

Crimes which shock collective conscience of society should be treated in the category of rarest of rare deserving death penalty, Supreme Court said.

Murder of 35 in 1992: SC commutes death of two to life term

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 20:37

: The death penalty awarded to three men, for being part of a mob which in February 1992 murdered 35 persons of village Bara in Bihar, has been modified by the Supreme Court which acquitted one and sent the other two to prison for their entire lives.