Capital Punishment

"Expected Capital Punishment": Women's Commission Chief On Kathua Verdict

India News | ANI | Monday June 10, 2019

The National Commission for Women chairperson on Monday said the Pathankot court decision convicting six accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua in January 2018 was not enough and expected harsher punishment for them.

After Backlash, Sultan Of Brunei Rolls Back Death Penalty For Gay Sex

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday May 6, 2019

Brunei's sultan has announced death by stoning for gay sex and adultery will not be enforced after a global backlash, but critics today called for harsh sharia laws to be abandoned entirely. gay sex death

High Court Orders Day-To-Day Hearing In Death Sentence Case Of 1984 Riots

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday April 1, 2019

The Delhi High Court has ordered day-to-day hearing in the death reference as also the convict's appeal against the capital punishment awarded to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Want Capital Punishment For Gurmeet Ram Rahim: Son Of Killed Journalist

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday January 11, 2019

The son of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chandra Chhatrapati, who was murdered by aides of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in 2002, today demanded capital punishment for the self-styled godman.

US Man Convicted Of Double Murder Put To Death In Electric Chair

World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday November 2, 2018

A Tennessee man convicted of a double murder was put to death Thursday in the electric chair, after insisting on the rarely used method rather than lethal injection.

Bangladesh Considers Capital Punishment For Driving Deaths After Protests

World News | Reuters | Monday August 6, 2018

Bangladesh's cabinet on Monday will consider capital punishment for traffic accident deaths, a law ministry official said, as thousands of students held protests for a ninth day over the deaths of two teenagers by a speeding bus in Dhaka.

Juvenile Convicts Can't Get Death For Every Rape, Murder: Top Court Judge

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday July 23, 2018

Justice Madan B Lokur, the chairman of the Supreme Court Juvenile Justice Committee, has said that juvenile convicts cannot be handed down capital punishment in every case pertaining to heinous crimes such as rape and murder.

Nirbhaya's Rapists Get Closer To Eventual Execution: Foreign Media

India News | Annie Gowen, The Washington Post | Monday July 9, 2018

India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected the pleas to review the capital sentences of three assailants in a notorious gang rape and murder of a young college student that shook India in 2012, bringing them one step closer to eventual execution.

Father Demands Capital Punishment For Accused In Mandsaur Rape Case

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Sunday July 1, 2018

Father of the eight-year-old who was raped in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur has demanded death sentence for the accused, suggesting that capital punishment was the only optionfor their heinous crime.

Court Awards Death Sentence To Bihar Man For Raping, Killing Girl

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday June 30, 2018

A local court Gopalganj which is 148 km from capital Patna today awarded death sentence to a man for killing a minor girl after abducting and raping her over a year ago.

Thailand Carries Out First Execution Since 2009

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday June 19, 2018

Thailand has carried out its first execution since 2009, the government said, putting a 26-year-old convicted murderer to death by lethal injection in a move condemned by Amnesty International as "deplorable".

Death Penalty For Child Rape 'Populist Measure', Says Justice AP Shah

India News | Written by Neeta Sharma | Tuesday April 24, 2018

Criticised over the recent spate of rapes of minors, the government may have introduced capital punishment through an executive order but not everyone seems convinced that's the right step forward. Among them former chief justice of Delhi High Court AP Shah, some lawyers, child rights activists and families of three child survivors of sexual abuse ...

Death For Rape Of Children Below 12, Says Government, Clears Executive Order

India News | Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Aloke Tikku | Sunday April 22, 2018

The centre today signed off on an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to introduce capital punishment for child rapists, a move that is seen as an effort to signal the government's commitment to fight sexual crimes against young girls. The change was cleared at a meeting of the Union Cabinet convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within hour...

Alabama Executes Inmate, 83, Oldest In Modern US History

World News | Reuters | Friday April 20, 2018

Alabama on Thursday executed an 83-year-old man convicted of a deadly 1989 serial bombing spree, making him the oldest known person put to death in the modern era of US capital punishment.

Alabama To Execute 83-Year-Old Inmate, Oldest In Modern US History

World News | Reuters | Friday April 20, 2018

Alabama is set on Thursday to execute an 83-year-old convicted pipe-bomb killer, believed to be the oldest person put to death in the modern era of US capital punishment.