Page 4 - Death Penalty
Supreme Court questions issuance of death warrants by trial courts
SC questions issuance of death warrants by trial courts before expiry of time period for appeal
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Death penalty up by 53% in 2018, but most rape cases stuck at trial: Data
India has carried out four executions since 2004, the last having been in 2015
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Nirbhaya case: Delhi HC slams authorities for delay in seeking death orders
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said that after the apex court dismissed in 2017 the appeals of the four convicts
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SC agrees to hear Centre's plea for 'victim-centric' death penalty norms
The guidelines were laid down in Shatrughan Chauhan versus Union of India case in 2014
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Nirbhaya: SC verdict on death row convict Mukesh's plea on Wednesday
President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected the mercy petition of Mukesh on January 17
Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court to hear death row convict's petition tomorrow
A Delhi court has issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case, who will be executed on February 1 at 6 am.
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Nirbhaya: Mukesh seeks judicial review of mercy petition rejection in SC
The petition has been filed by convict Mukesh Kumar whose mercy plea was dismissed by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 17
Nirbhaya case: Court rejects convicts' lawyer's plea seeking Tihar papers
The public prosecutor, appearing for the Delhi Police, told the court that Tihar jail authorities have supplied all the relevant documents sought by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the case
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Nirbhaya rape case: SC rejects death row convict's plea claiming juvenility
A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bushan and A S Bopanna dismissed the plea of convict Pawan Kumar Gupta and upheld the Delhi High Court verdict.
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Growing clamour for hanging: Over 462 on death row in the year 2018
162 persons were sentenced to death by trial courts in the same year
Four convicts get death sentence in 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts that killed 71
The serial blasts rocked Jaipur on the evening of May 13, 2008 within a two-kilometre radius in the walled city, popular also with tourists.
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Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death for treason: Chronology of events
May 11, 2016: Special court declares Musharraf an absconder in the high treason case against him.
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Nirbhaya case: CJI Bobde recuses from hearing convict penalty review plea
The CJI said one of his relatives had earlier appeared on behalf of the victim's mother in the case and observed that it would be appropriate that some other bench hear the review plea at 10:30 am.
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SC upholds death penalty of man accused of raping, murdering girl
A three-judge bench headed by Justice R F Nariman, by a majority of 2:1, upheld the verdicts of the trial court and the Madras High Court to award death penalty to the convict
US to resume capital punishment after a gap of nearly two decades
The five inmates who will be executed soon at a federal facility in Indiana included Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group, who murdered a family of three, including an eight-yr-old
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Bill seeking death penalty for child rape passed: Things you should know
According to the new bill, there will be stringent punishment for rapists of girls under 12
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371 Indians are on death row; only 4 have been executed in 13 years
Among the prisoners whose mercy petitions were rejected by the President of India, the median time spent in prison under trial was 16 years nine months
 "371 Indians are on death row; only 4 have been executed in 13 years")
The long arm of the state: Draconian laws often ignore the real issues
Take, for example, the issue of death penalty for those accused of raping young girls. For one, it is more likely this will lead to more rape victims being killed
Death penalty for child rape may not mean better justice, data shows
No more than 28 per cent of child rapes registered end in convictions, and there is a 20-year backlog of child-sex-abuse related court cases
Here's why the death penalty for child rapists may not help much
Do our patriarchal and judgemental police, prosecutors, judges and the media even believe these victims, let alone award death penalty?
