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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 22, 2013, 11:04
An eminent human rights body on Thursday asked India to immediately stop impending executions and renew its moratorium on capital punishment.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 13:07
The execution of two death row convicts in a 13-year-old rape-cum-murder case, scheduled for Thursday, was stayed by the Supreme Court.
Last Updated: Friday, July 5, 2013, 14:27
The Pakistan People`s Party suspension on the death penalty, issued in 2008, expired on June 30.
Last Updated: Friday, June 14, 2013, 11:21
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has hailed the growing momentum against capital punishment.
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