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United States carries out rare execution during presidential transition

Four more federal executions, including one Friday, are planned in the weeks before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration

Satwant Singh to Nirbhaya case: History of executions in Independent India

Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.

Nirbhaya case: Convicts to hang at 5:30 am as SC rejects last-minute plea

The plea claimed that there is further new evidence which shows that the state has concealed certain facts in the case from the court

HC rejects Nirbhaya rape convicts' last-minute petition against hanging

The bench said pendency of proceedings, initiated by the convicts or involving them at various fora is untenable in law as a ground for staying execution

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

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

Pak: Former Punjab governor Taseer's killer Mumtaz Qadri executed

Qadri said he killed Taseer over the politician's vocal and vehement opposition to blasphemy laws of the country