Parkash Singh Badal for `severe` punishment for food adulteration

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 18:48

To check food adulteration, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today said state government will introduce a bill in the upcoming Assembly session for awarding "severest of severe" punishment.

Eight students sentenced to death in Bangladesh

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 10:24

A court sentenced eight Bangladesh Chhatra League activists to death and 13 to life imprisonment for killing tailor Bishwajit Das in Old Dhaka a year ago, media reported.

Oklahoma carries out US death row`s last execution of 2013

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 08:26

A convicted murderer became the final person to be executed in the United States this year, after being put to death in Oklahoma, authorities said.

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.

Bangladesh convicts UK Muslim leader, US citizen of war crimes

Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 13:36

A Bangladesh war crimes court found a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen guilty in absentia for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence.

Man ends life after being made to lick spit as punishment

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 18:55

A man, who was punished by the panchayat and made to lick the spit of the villagers off the ground in Bihar`s Samstipur district ended his life unable to bear the ignominy, police said on Saturday.

Florida executes man for woman`s 1986 murder

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 09:36

Florida has executed a 51-year-old man for the 1986 rape and strangulation of a woman he encountered by chance in a convenience store parking lot.

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.

2002 post-Godhra riots: SIT wants capital punishment for Maya Kodnani

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 18:22

SIT wants capital punishment for former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, Babu Bajrangi and 28 others, as per reports.

Delhi gang-rape: Two lawyers representing convicts withdraw from case

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 08:54

The lawyers of the two men, who were sentenced to death in the heinous December 16 gang-rape and murder case, withdrew from the matter.

Ohio uses execution drug, for last time, on killer

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 00:06

A white gunman who spewed racial slurs before fatally shooting a black man and a police officer in a 1994 rampage was executed in Ohio with the state`s last use of its execution drug.

Shinde for exploring alternative modes of punishment

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 14:30

Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Tuesday favoured exploring alternative modes of punishment to convicts, saying sending such people to jail have many adverse effects, including trauma for their children and family.