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Mexico, In Deal With Team Trump, Expels 26 Top Cartel Leader Wanted By US
Mexico sent 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States Tuesday in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks smuggling drugs across the border.
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180 Executions In 6 Months. What's Driving Saudi Arabia's Killing Spree In 2025
According to a new Amnesty International report published in July and data from the official Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom has executed 1,816 people between January 2014 and June 2025.
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"Judges Should Never Be Bloodthirsty": High Court Commutes Death Penalty To Life Term
Observing that judges should never be "bloodthirsty", the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of the Calcutta High Court has ordered the death sentence of a man be commuted to life imprisonment for the murder of his maternal uncle.
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Saudi Arabia Executes 8 In A Day Amid Spike In Drug-Related Death Sentences
Saudi Arabia has executed eight people in a single day, state media said, amid a surge in the use of the death penalty in the Gulf monarchy particularly over drug-related convictions.
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RG Kar Victim's Father Calls Aparajita Bill 'Deceptive,' Accuses Police Of Evidence Tampering
The father of the RG Kar rape and murder victim accused Kolkata Police of tampering with evidence and failing to act in his daughter's case, while reacting to the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill.
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Governor Returns Aparajita Bill To Bengal Government, Trinamool May Protest
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has sent back the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 to the state government.
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Man Who Escaped Jail Raped, Killed 23-Year-Old. All About 2011 Soumya Case
The 2011 Soumya murder case in Kerala is back in focus after convict Govindachamy attempted to escape from a high-security prison.
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Bryan Kohberger, Accused Of Stabbing 4 US Students, Gets Life In Prison
One after another, the friends and family of the four University of Idaho students killed in their home by Bryan Kohberger vented their emotions in sobs, insults and curses before a packed courtroom Wednesday as he was sentenced to life in prison.
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Bryan Kohberger, Accused Of Stabbing 4 Idaho Students, May Serve 4 Sentences
A judge is expected to order Bryan Kohberger to serve four life sentences without parole this week for the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students nearly three years ago.
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NDTV Explains: "Nimisha Priya Must Face 'Qisas'", Says Victim's Brother. What Is This Law?
Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya - sentenced to death by Yemen for the murder of Talal Abdo Mehdi - must face 'Qisas', or 'God's law', and nothing else, his brother has insisted.
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'Brutality Of Crime Can't Be Only Yardstick': Top Court On Death Penalty
The Supreme Court has commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life in prison without remission.
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Opinion | The Anguish Of Nimisha Priya And The Imperative Of Compassion
Nimisha's story is, sadly, one that epitomises the hopes and vulnerabilities of many Keralites who seek opportunity in distant lands.
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Trump Believes China Will Sentence Fentanyl Traffickers To Death
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the US will work out a deal with China where the latter would give the death penalty to those who transport fentanyl drug into the US.
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In Race To Save Nimisha Priya, Worried Activist Claims 'We Had Setback'
Efforts to save Nimisha Priya - sentenced to death by Yemen for killing her business partner - may have suffered a setback because of media reports focusing on 'blood money', or cash offered to his family in exchange for a pardon, a social worker sai
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"A Night Of Hearing Made The Difference": How Nurse's Execution Was Delayed
Nimisha Priya Execution in Yemen: By the time the sun rose over Sana'a, a door had opened but just slightly, enough for Nimisha Priya to keep fighting.
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Mexico, In Deal With Team Trump, Expels 26 Top Cartel Leader Wanted By US
Mexico sent 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States Tuesday in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks smuggling drugs across the border.
-
180 Executions In 6 Months. What's Driving Saudi Arabia's Killing Spree In 2025
According to a new Amnesty International report published in July and data from the official Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom has executed 1,816 people between January 2014 and June 2025.
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"Judges Should Never Be Bloodthirsty": High Court Commutes Death Penalty To Life Term
Observing that judges should never be "bloodthirsty", the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of the Calcutta High Court has ordered the death sentence of a man be commuted to life imprisonment for the murder of his maternal uncle.
-
Saudi Arabia Executes 8 In A Day Amid Spike In Drug-Related Death Sentences
Saudi Arabia has executed eight people in a single day, state media said, amid a surge in the use of the death penalty in the Gulf monarchy particularly over drug-related convictions.
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RG Kar Victim's Father Calls Aparajita Bill 'Deceptive,' Accuses Police Of Evidence Tampering
The father of the RG Kar rape and murder victim accused Kolkata Police of tampering with evidence and failing to act in his daughter's case, while reacting to the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill.
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Governor Returns Aparajita Bill To Bengal Government, Trinamool May Protest
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has sent back the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 to the state government.
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Man Who Escaped Jail Raped, Killed 23-Year-Old. All About 2011 Soumya Case
The 2011 Soumya murder case in Kerala is back in focus after convict Govindachamy attempted to escape from a high-security prison.
-
Bryan Kohberger, Accused Of Stabbing 4 US Students, Gets Life In Prison
One after another, the friends and family of the four University of Idaho students killed in their home by Bryan Kohberger vented their emotions in sobs, insults and curses before a packed courtroom Wednesday as he was sentenced to life in prison.
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Bryan Kohberger, Accused Of Stabbing 4 Idaho Students, May Serve 4 Sentences
A judge is expected to order Bryan Kohberger to serve four life sentences without parole this week for the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students nearly three years ago.
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NDTV Explains: "Nimisha Priya Must Face 'Qisas'", Says Victim's Brother. What Is This Law?
Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya - sentenced to death by Yemen for the murder of Talal Abdo Mehdi - must face 'Qisas', or 'God's law', and nothing else, his brother has insisted.
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'Brutality Of Crime Can't Be Only Yardstick': Top Court On Death Penalty
The Supreme Court has commuted a man's death penalty in a minor's rape and murder case to life in prison without remission.
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Opinion | The Anguish Of Nimisha Priya And The Imperative Of Compassion
Nimisha's story is, sadly, one that epitomises the hopes and vulnerabilities of many Keralites who seek opportunity in distant lands.
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Trump Believes China Will Sentence Fentanyl Traffickers To Death
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the US will work out a deal with China where the latter would give the death penalty to those who transport fentanyl drug into the US.
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In Race To Save Nimisha Priya, Worried Activist Claims 'We Had Setback'
Efforts to save Nimisha Priya - sentenced to death by Yemen for killing her business partner - may have suffered a setback because of media reports focusing on 'blood money', or cash offered to his family in exchange for a pardon, a social worker sai
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"A Night Of Hearing Made The Difference": How Nurse's Execution Was Delayed
Nimisha Priya Execution in Yemen: By the time the sun rose over Sana'a, a door had opened but just slightly, enough for Nimisha Priya to keep fighting.
