Drug courier escapes gallows after Singapore reforms

Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 13:44

Singaporean Abdul Haleem Abdul Karim was saved from the gallows because he was a mere courier.

Florida executes man for girl`s 1980 killing

Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 11:43

Florida executed a man for abducting and murdering a 10-year-old girl in 1980, prison authorities said.

Bali court upholds death sentence for British grandmother

Last Updated: Monday, April 8, 2013, 13:03

An Indonesian court upheld the death sentence handed down to a 56-year-old British grandmother found guilty of trafficking cocaine into Bali.

SC stays execution of eight convicts denied mercy by President

Last Updated: Sunday, April 7, 2013, 08:19

The Supreme Court stayed for four weeks the execution of eight convicts, whose mercy petitions were recently rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.

President Pranab rejects five mercy pleas, commutes sentence of two

Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 08:22

Out of seven people convicted for heinous crimes, President Pranab Mukherjee has upheld execution in five cases.

James Holmes ready to plead guilty in Colorado massacre

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:14

James Holmes allegedly killed 12 people during the screening of `The Dark Knight Rises` at a movie hall in Colorado, United States.

Saudi Arabia beheads, crucifies Yemeni for murdering Pakistani

Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 11:13

Yemeni citizen Mohammed Rashad Khairi Hussein killed a Pakistani, Pashteh Sayed Khan, after he committed sodomy with him.

Sufi shrine bombing mastermind gets death

Last Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 12:59

An anti-terrorism court in Dera Ghazi Khan district gave the death sentence on 52 counts to Behram alias Sufi Baba.

Govt school student thrashed by teacher; hospitalised

Last Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2013, 23:51

A class V student of a government school here was hospitalised after he was allegedly thrashed by a teacher.

China executes Myanmar drug lord for killing 13 sailors

Last Updated: Friday, March 1, 2013, 14:40

China executed a Myanmarese drug lord, along with three other accomplices from Thailand and Laos, for murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011.

War crime trial: Bangladesh violence toll rises to 46

Last Updated: Friday, March 1, 2013, 12:09

Violence continued unabated in Bangladesh on Friday as at least 46 people were killed in clashes that erupted after a top leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e- Islami was handed down death penalty for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war.