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"Hangman's Noose Not To Be Taken Off": Top Court Commutes Death Penalty
Directing the hangman's noose to be "taken off the convict's neck", the Supreme Court ordered a death row prisoner to remain in jail "till the end of his days given by god almighty".
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Sarabjit Singh: He Spent 22 Years In Pak Jail, Then Inmates Killed Him
Sarabjit Singh, who was on death row, spent 22 years in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail after being convicted of espionage and terrorism before an attack by inmates killed him in 2013.
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Man Serving Death Sentence For Raping, Murdering Minor Kills Self In Pune Jail
A convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning, police said.
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Man Who Threatened To Kill Nitin Gadkari A Death Row Convict: Cops
The caller who made threatening calls to the Nagpur office of Union minister Nitin Gadkari and demanded Rs 100 crore is an inmate of a jail in Belagavi city of Karnataka who was sentenced to death by a court in a murder case in the past
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413 Death Row Convicts In Jails Across Country Till 2020: Centre's Data
As many as 413 prisoners, who have been awarded death sentence, were lodged in jails across the country till the end of 2020, according to a new central government data.
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Nirbhaya Case Updates: "Our Nari Shakti Has Excelled In Every Field": PM On Nirbhaya Verdict
The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...
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Nirbhaya Convicts Seek Quashing Of Death Penalty Citing Second Mercy Plea
The counsel for the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case moved a court on Wednesday seeking quashing of their death penalty, saying the second mercy plea of one of them is still pending.
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Court Rejects Nirbhaya Convict's Plea Claiming He Suffers Mental Illness
A Delhi court today dismissed a petition by Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking treatment for "mental illness".
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Nirbhaya Case: Convict Has No History Of "Mental Instability", Court Told
Tihar Jail authorities have filed their response in a Delhi court on the application filed by one of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case -- Vinay Sharma -- claiming insanity and informed that there is no medical history of mental instability.
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Nirbhaya Convict Cites "Mental Illness" To Challenge Mercy Plea Rejection
A death row convict in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case today claimed in the Supreme Court that the President had not considered the "mental stability" he suffered due to torture in jail while rejecting his mercy petition. The centre denied the assertion, saying he was "fit and of sound mind".
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"Hangman's Noose Not To Be Taken Off": Top Court Commutes Death Penalty
Directing the hangman's noose to be "taken off the convict's neck", the Supreme Court ordered a death row prisoner to remain in jail "till the end of his days given by god almighty".
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Sarabjit Singh: He Spent 22 Years In Pak Jail, Then Inmates Killed Him
Sarabjit Singh, who was on death row, spent 22 years in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail after being convicted of espionage and terrorism before an attack by inmates killed him in 2013.
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Man Serving Death Sentence For Raping, Murdering Minor Kills Self In Pune Jail
A convict serving death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl at Kopardi in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune on Sunday morning, police said.
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Man Who Threatened To Kill Nitin Gadkari A Death Row Convict: Cops
The caller who made threatening calls to the Nagpur office of Union minister Nitin Gadkari and demanded Rs 100 crore is an inmate of a jail in Belagavi city of Karnataka who was sentenced to death by a court in a murder case in the past
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413 Death Row Convicts In Jails Across Country Till 2020: Centre's Data
As many as 413 prisoners, who have been awarded death sentence, were lodged in jails across the country till the end of 2020, according to a new central government data.
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Nirbhaya Case Updates: "Our Nari Shakti Has Excelled In Every Field": PM On Nirbhaya Verdict
The four convicts in the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student were hanged at Delhi's Tihar Jail at 5:30 am today. After three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case moved the Delhi high court Thursday evening challenging the trial court order declining to stay their execution scheduled for ea...
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Nirbhaya Convicts Seek Quashing Of Death Penalty Citing Second Mercy Plea
The counsel for the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case moved a court on Wednesday seeking quashing of their death penalty, saying the second mercy plea of one of them is still pending.
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Court Rejects Nirbhaya Convict's Plea Claiming He Suffers Mental Illness
A Delhi court today dismissed a petition by Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, seeking treatment for "mental illness".
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Nirbhaya Case: Convict Has No History Of "Mental Instability", Court Told
Tihar Jail authorities have filed their response in a Delhi court on the application filed by one of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya case -- Vinay Sharma -- claiming insanity and informed that there is no medical history of mental instability.
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Nirbhaya Convict Cites "Mental Illness" To Challenge Mercy Plea Rejection
A death row convict in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case today claimed in the Supreme Court that the President had not considered the "mental stability" he suffered due to torture in jail while rejecting his mercy petition. The centre denied the assertion, saying he was "fit and of sound mind".
