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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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"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 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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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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Madhya Pradesh Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old In 2017 To Be Released
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a 20-year-old man, who was awarded the death penalty for rape and murder of a four-year-old child in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in 2017.
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Supreme Court Stays Death Penalty Given To Man For Killing Wife, Children
The Supreme Court stayed the execution of the death sentence given to a man convicted of killing his wife and children by an Allahabad High Court bench.
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Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty For Rajasthan Man Who Raped, Killed Minor
The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a physically and mentally challenged seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, and noted that the crime was brutal and inhuman.
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Supreme Court To Hear 40 Death Penalty Cases From September 7
The Supreme Court has issued a circular stating that 40 'Death Cases' will be listed before three-judge benches starting from September 7 including the one related to LeT terrorist Mohammad Arif.
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Supreme Court To Hear Death Penalty, Family Laws Cases On Video Amid Lockdown
Death penalty cases and those related to family laws may be listed for hearing through video-conferencing mode, the Supreme Court said on Saturday.
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Top Court To Consider "Victim-Centric" Rules In Death Penalty Cases
The Supreme Court will consider framing additional guidelines in death penalty cases to make them more "victim-centric" and "society-centric". The top court agreed to reassess the guidelines after the government asked the court for a change in procedures in death penalty cases to bring in a seven-day time limit for convicts to use their last availa...
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"Consider Background," Says Top Court, Sparing 2 The Death Penalty
The Supreme Court today scaled down the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment, saying that judges should take socio-economic factors into account before sending anybody to the gallows.
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India To File Mercy Petition For Indians On Death Row In Qatar
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said the Indian government will file a mercy petition on behalf of the family members of two men from Tamil Nadu who were sentenced to death by Qatar's Supreme Court last year.
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Florida Executes Man Who Killed 4 in 1985
The US state of Florida executed a convicted murderer Thursday who had been on death row 30 years for killing four people, including his five-year-old daughter, in 1985.
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Ajmal Kasab appeals to Supreme Court against death penalty
Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court judgment confirming the death sentence slapped on him by a trial court for his role in the carnage.
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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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"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 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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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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Madhya Pradesh Man Who Raped, Killed 4-Year-Old In 2017 To Be Released
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a 20-year-old man, who was awarded the death penalty for rape and murder of a four-year-old child in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in 2017.
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Supreme Court Stays Death Penalty Given To Man For Killing Wife, Children
The Supreme Court stayed the execution of the death sentence given to a man convicted of killing his wife and children by an Allahabad High Court bench.
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Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty For Rajasthan Man Who Raped, Killed Minor
The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the death penalty awarded to a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a physically and mentally challenged seven-and-a-half-year-old girl, and noted that the crime was brutal and inhuman.
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Supreme Court To Hear 40 Death Penalty Cases From September 7
The Supreme Court has issued a circular stating that 40 'Death Cases' will be listed before three-judge benches starting from September 7 including the one related to LeT terrorist Mohammad Arif.
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Supreme Court To Hear Death Penalty, Family Laws Cases On Video Amid Lockdown
Death penalty cases and those related to family laws may be listed for hearing through video-conferencing mode, the Supreme Court said on Saturday.
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Top Court To Consider "Victim-Centric" Rules In Death Penalty Cases
The Supreme Court will consider framing additional guidelines in death penalty cases to make them more "victim-centric" and "society-centric". The top court agreed to reassess the guidelines after the government asked the court for a change in procedures in death penalty cases to bring in a seven-day time limit for convicts to use their last availa...
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"Consider Background," Says Top Court, Sparing 2 The Death Penalty
The Supreme Court today scaled down the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment, saying that judges should take socio-economic factors into account before sending anybody to the gallows.
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India To File Mercy Petition For Indians On Death Row In Qatar
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said the Indian government will file a mercy petition on behalf of the family members of two men from Tamil Nadu who were sentenced to death by Qatar's Supreme Court last year.
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Florida Executes Man Who Killed 4 in 1985
The US state of Florida executed a convicted murderer Thursday who had been on death row 30 years for killing four people, including his five-year-old daughter, in 1985.
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Ajmal Kasab appeals to Supreme Court against death penalty
Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court judgment confirming the death sentence slapped on him by a trial court for his role in the carnage.
