Death Sentence

Trump Calls For New Death Sentence For Boston Marathon Bomber

World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday August 3, 2020

US President Donald Trump called Sunday for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be re-sentenced to death after an appeals court overturned the death penalty.

Agreement On Filing Review Plea After Meet With Kulbhushan Jadhav: Sources

India News | Reported by Kadambini Sharma, Edited by Arun Nair | Thursday July 16, 2020

There was an agreement on filing a review petition against the death sentence of Kulbhushan Jadhav, sources said today, after India got consular access to the Indian national for two-hours. A Pakistan military court had sentenced Mr Jadhav to death on charges of espionage and India got the second consular access at around 4.30pm ahead of the July 2...

Centre Should Move World Court In Kulbhushan Jadhav Case: Congress

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday July 9, 2020

The Congress Wednesday urged the government to approach the International Court of Justice to Indian prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav to file a review petition against his death sentence in Pakistan.

Kulbhushan Jadhav Coerced: India On Pak's Claim He Refused Case Review

India News | Reported by Kadambini Sharma, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Thursday July 9, 2020

Pakistan's claim that Indian national Kulbhushan Yadav -- sentenced to death by its military court -- has refused review of his case and wants to appeal for mercy, is proof of its "reticence" to implement the order of the International Court of Justice in "letter and spirit", India said today. Calling Pakistan's move a continuation of the four-year...

Kulbhushan Jadhav Wants To Go With Mercy Plea, Refused Review, Claims Pak

India News | ANI | Wednesday July 8, 2020

Pakistan said Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav has refused to file a review petition and wants to go ahead with his pending mercy plea. "He (Kulbhushan Jadhav) preferred to follow up on his pending mercy petition... Pakistan has offered second consular access to him," said Additional Attorney General Ahmed Irfan while addressing a media conference...

Tamil Nadu Man, Sentenced To Death For Dalit Son-In-Law's Murder, Freed

Tamil Nadu News | Written by J Sam Daniel Stalin | Monday June 22, 2020

Over four years after a 23-year-old Dalit engineering student who married an upper caste woman was hacked to death in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court today acquitted the woman's father who was given death penalty and modified the death sentence of the five others to life imprisonment.

Bail To Pak-Origin 26/11 Convict Will Strain Ties With India: US Lawyer

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday June 21, 2020

Describing 26/11 convict Tahawwur Rana, a Pak-origin Canadian businessman as a flight risk, the United States has opposed his release on bail, arguing that if he were to flee to Canada, he may escape the possibility of death sentence in India.

Australia PM "Concerned" Over China Death Sentence For Sydney-Based Actor

World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday June 16, 2020

Australia's prime minister expressed concern Monday after an Australian man was sentenced to death, in a case that could further inflame tensions between Beijing and Canberra.

Singapore Slammed For "Cruel" Death Sentence Via Zoom Call Amid COVID-19

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday May 20, 2020

Singapore was criticised for being "cruel and inhumane" Wednesday after a death sentence was handed down via video-conferencing platform Zoom.

Man Sentenced to Death in Singapore via Zoom Call

Reuters | Wednesday May 20, 2020

Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction on Friday, court documents showed, with the country under lockdown to try and curb one of the highest coronavirus rates in Asia.

Pak Court Ruling On Daniel Pearl Killer "Affront To Terror Victims": US

World News | Reuters | Friday April 3, 2020

A Pakistani court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of the main person accused in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of an American Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, and acquitted three other co-accused in the matter.

Pak Court Reduces Daniel Pearl Killer's Death Sentence To 7 Years In Jail

World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday April 2, 2020

A Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl.

"No Remedy Left": Top Court Rejects Nirbhaya Convict's Fresh Request

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Monday March 16, 2020

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the request by one of convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape to file a new curative petition against his death sentence, refusing to once again put on hold their execution due this week.

Tihar Asks Hangman Pawan Jallad To Report 3 Days Before Execution

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday March 15, 2020

With just five days left for the execution of the death sentence in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, the Tihar Jail authorities on Sunday said they have asked the hangman to report three days ahead of the scheduled hanging.

Jharkhand Men Get Sentence To Death For Raping Six-Year-Old Last Month

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday March 3, 2020

A Jharkhand court on Tuesday handed down death sentence to three men for raping a six-year-old girl, killing her, and burying her body, a judgement that came in less than a month after the crime was committed.