Death Sentence

Plea by Balwant Rajoana seeks commutation of death sentence to life term as he has served 26 years; court unhappy with delay in taking decision

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district sentenced a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment on Monday for raping an 11-year-old girl and then burning her to death three years ago.

China has sentenced former Justice Minister Fu Zhenghua to death with a two-year reprieve.

Gujarat has seen a sharp rise in trial courts giving captial punishment with 50 people being sentenced to death this year till August compared to 46 between 2006 and 2021, as per data available with courts in the state.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded by a CBI court to a man convicted of killing six people, including his wife and their three children, in 2009.

The Delhi High Court has said it would hear on September 22 appeals by two convicts challenging the death sentence and life term awarded to them in the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case.

A US citizen sentenced to death by a Chinese court for "intentional homicide" of his former girlfriend lost his appeal on Thursday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.

A special CBI court in Jharkhand on Saturday sentenced an autorickshaw driver and another person to life imprisonment in connection with the murder a Dhanbad court judge last year.

A Taiwanese woman who set off the island's deadliest fire in decades to get back at her boyfriend escaped the death penalty Friday as the court handed down a life sentence.

Iran this week executed three women in the space of a single day, all on charges of murdering their husbands, an NGO said on Friday.

A 48-year-old Uttar Pradesh man was given the life sentence by a court in Bulandshahr on Wednesday based on the testimonies of his two daughters who witnessed him and some other relatives burning their mother alive in 2016 for not having a son.

To be sentenced next week, autorickshaw driver Rahul Verma and his accomplice Lakhan Verma were arrested a month after the murder

An Egyptian court has called for broadcasting the live execution of a murderer, who stabbed his classmate to death after she rejected his marriage proposal.

Two former Minneapolis police officers were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for their roles in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose death sparked protests against racial injustice across the United States.

Plea by Balwant Rajoana seeks commutation of death sentence to life term as he has served 26 years; court unhappy with delay in taking decision

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district sentenced a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment on Monday for raping an 11-year-old girl and then burning her to death three years ago.

China has sentenced former Justice Minister Fu Zhenghua to death with a two-year reprieve.

Gujarat has seen a sharp rise in trial courts giving captial punishment with 50 people being sentenced to death this year till August compared to 46 between 2006 and 2021, as per data available with courts in the state.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has upheld the death sentence awarded by a CBI court to a man convicted of killing six people, including his wife and their three children, in 2009.

The Delhi High Court has said it would hear on September 22 appeals by two convicts challenging the death sentence and life term awarded to them in the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case.

A US citizen sentenced to death by a Chinese court for "intentional homicide" of his former girlfriend lost his appeal on Thursday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

A member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court on Friday for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria.

A special CBI court in Jharkhand on Saturday sentenced an autorickshaw driver and another person to life imprisonment in connection with the murder a Dhanbad court judge last year.

A Taiwanese woman who set off the island's deadliest fire in decades to get back at her boyfriend escaped the death penalty Friday as the court handed down a life sentence.

Iran this week executed three women in the space of a single day, all on charges of murdering their husbands, an NGO said on Friday.

A 48-year-old Uttar Pradesh man was given the life sentence by a court in Bulandshahr on Wednesday based on the testimonies of his two daughters who witnessed him and some other relatives burning their mother alive in 2016 for not having a son.

To be sentenced next week, autorickshaw driver Rahul Verma and his accomplice Lakhan Verma were arrested a month after the murder

An Egyptian court has called for broadcasting the live execution of a murderer, who stabbed his classmate to death after she rejected his marriage proposal.

Two former Minneapolis police officers were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for their roles in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose death sparked protests against racial injustice across the United States.