Capital Punishment

In Rajya Sabha, Most States Support Retaining Death Penalty

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday July 26, 2019

Ninety per cent of the states have supported retaining death penalty in the country, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Friday where a private member's bill seeking abolition of capital punishment came up for consideration.

US Resumes Use Of Death Penalty After Two Decades, Schedules 5 Executions

World News | Reuters | Thursday July 25, 2019

The US Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades long dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.

Builders Cheating Homebuyers "No Less Than Rape": BJP Leader

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday July 25, 2019

Equating cheating of home buyers by greedy builders with rape, BJP leader Vijay Goel on Thursday demanded stringent action against them.

Easter Sunday Attack Suspects Should Be Hanged: Sri Lanka President

World News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has demanded death sentence to all the suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks, amid his differences with the governing coalition over reintroduction of capital punishment after four decades.

International Drug Dealers Behind Sri Lanka Easter Bombings: President

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday July 15, 2019

International drug syndicates orchestrated Sri Lanka's deadly Easter Sunday bombings, the country's leader claimed Monday, despite earlier blaming the attacks on Islamists.

Drug Peddlers Should Get Death Sentence, Says Sharad Pawar's party Leader

Mumbai News | Press Trust of India | Friday June 28, 2019

NCP leader Ajit Pawar today demanded capital punishment for drug peddlers and urged the Maharashtra government to make a provision for this in the existing laws.

"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.