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"Unfortunate, But There Is A Limit To What We Can Do": Centre On Nurse Execution Case
There is not much more the government can do to stop the execution of Nimisha Priya - the Kerala nurse sentenced to death by Yemen for killing a man harassing her - the Supreme Court was told Monday.
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2 Days Left For Execution, Top Court To Hear Plea To Save Kerala Nurse Today
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution.
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Supreme Court To Examine Whether Writ Petition Can Be Filed Against Death Penalty Confirmed By It
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would examine whether a writ petition could seek the review of its confirmation of death penalty in light of the 2022 verdict asking mitigating circumstances in such cases to be factored in.
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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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Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty In Boy's Sexual Assault, Murder Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the death sentence imposed on a convict in a sexual assault and murder case of a four-year-old minor boy in 2016, and substituted it with a 25-year jail term without remission.
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Supreme Court Commutes Death Penalty Of Man Guilty Of Killing Daughter
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty of a man, who murdered his pregnant daughter for performing an inter-caste marriage against her family's will and sentenced him to 20 years in jail instead.
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Politicians Assuring Death Penalty For Cultprits Creating "Mob Rule": Supreme Court Judge
Justice Abhay Oka of the Supreme Court on Sunday said "mob rule" is being created as politicians capitalise on certain incidents and assure capital punishment for culprits, stressing that only the judiciary can pass legal verdicts.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court Upholds Musharraf's Death Penalty A Year After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court today upheld late former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf's death penalty handed out to him by a special court in 2019 in the high treason case.
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Kerala Nurse's Appeal Against Death Penalty Dismissed By Yemen Court
The Supreme Court of Yemen has rejected an appeal against the death sentence of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse from Kerala, who has been imprisoned in the country since 2017 for the murder of a Yemeni national.
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Iran Confirms Death Penalty In Officer's Killing At Mahsa Amini Protests
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a man convicted of killing a Revolutionary Guards officer during nationwide protests last year, the judiciary said.
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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Infant Rape-Murder Case: Supreme Court Sets Aside Man's Conviction
Supreme Court set aside the conviction of a man facing death penalty for alleged rape and murder of a 3-month-old girl and remitted the matter for a new trial", observing that the trial was conducted in a "hurried manner".
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10 Countries Where Homosexuality Can Lead To Capital Punishment
Several countries have banned homosexuality, with many of them having the death penalty for same-sex relations.
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Death Penalty Set Aside, Supreme Court Sends Convict's Appeal To High Court
The Supreme Court Monday set aside the Patna High Court verdict handing down the death penalty to a man accused of raping and strangling to death an 11-year-old girl who had gone to watch television at his home in 2015.
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Supreme Court Frees UP Man Facing Death Penalty For Killing Son, Brothers
Irfan has been in jail since 2014 after being convicted for his alleged role in the death of his son Islamuddin and two brothers Irshad and Naushad.
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"Unfortunate, But There Is A Limit To What We Can Do": Centre On Nurse Execution Case
There is not much more the government can do to stop the execution of Nimisha Priya - the Kerala nurse sentenced to death by Yemen for killing a man harassing her - the Supreme Court was told Monday.
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2 Days Left For Execution, Top Court To Hear Plea To Save Kerala Nurse Today
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution.
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Supreme Court To Examine Whether Writ Petition Can Be Filed Against Death Penalty Confirmed By It
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would examine whether a writ petition could seek the review of its confirmation of death penalty in light of the 2022 verdict asking mitigating circumstances in such cases to be factored in.
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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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Supreme Court Sets Aside Death Penalty In Boy's Sexual Assault, Murder Case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the death sentence imposed on a convict in a sexual assault and murder case of a four-year-old minor boy in 2016, and substituted it with a 25-year jail term without remission.
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Supreme Court Commutes Death Penalty Of Man Guilty Of Killing Daughter
The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted the death penalty of a man, who murdered his pregnant daughter for performing an inter-caste marriage against her family's will and sentenced him to 20 years in jail instead.
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Politicians Assuring Death Penalty For Cultprits Creating "Mob Rule": Supreme Court Judge
Justice Abhay Oka of the Supreme Court on Sunday said "mob rule" is being created as politicians capitalise on certain incidents and assure capital punishment for culprits, stressing that only the judiciary can pass legal verdicts.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court Upholds Musharraf's Death Penalty A Year After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court today upheld late former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf's death penalty handed out to him by a special court in 2019 in the high treason case.
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Kerala Nurse's Appeal Against Death Penalty Dismissed By Yemen Court
The Supreme Court of Yemen has rejected an appeal against the death sentence of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse from Kerala, who has been imprisoned in the country since 2017 for the murder of a Yemeni national.
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Iran Confirms Death Penalty In Officer's Killing At Mahsa Amini Protests
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a man convicted of killing a Revolutionary Guards officer during nationwide protests last year, the judiciary said.
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Pervez Musharraf's Appeal Against Death Penalty In Court Months After His Death
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear an appeal by now-dead former military dictator Pervez Musharraf against the special court majority judgment that handed him a death sentence on treason charges in 2019.
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Infant Rape-Murder Case: Supreme Court Sets Aside Man's Conviction
Supreme Court set aside the conviction of a man facing death penalty for alleged rape and murder of a 3-month-old girl and remitted the matter for a new trial", observing that the trial was conducted in a "hurried manner".
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10 Countries Where Homosexuality Can Lead To Capital Punishment
Several countries have banned homosexuality, with many of them having the death penalty for same-sex relations.
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Death Penalty Set Aside, Supreme Court Sends Convict's Appeal To High Court
The Supreme Court Monday set aside the Patna High Court verdict handing down the death penalty to a man accused of raping and strangling to death an 11-year-old girl who had gone to watch television at his home in 2015.
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Supreme Court Frees UP Man Facing Death Penalty For Killing Son, Brothers
Irfan has been in jail since 2014 after being convicted for his alleged role in the death of his son Islamuddin and two brothers Irshad and Naushad.
