Death Sentence

Explained: How India saw the highest number of death penalties in 2022

According to the report 'Death Penalty in India, Annual Statistics Report, 2022,' trial courts across India imposed 165 death sentences in 2022, the most in a single year in the last two decades

What does Joe Biden's silence on the death penalty mean?

US president Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment. But the Justice Department continues to press for the death penalty in certain cases — even as a moratorium means no federal executions are likely to happen anytime soon

Another Iranian sentenced to death, charged with 'enmity against God'

Arshia Takdastan was alleged to have led a 'crowd in the main square of the city of Nowshahr and committed significant criminal acts'

Iran protests: Around 100 await probable death sentence behind bars

Iran Human Rights, an Oslo-based rights group, on Tuesday, released a report identifying at least 100 people facing the threat of potential capital punishment

Allahabad HC upholds death sentence of man for killing six

In 2017, The CBI court awarded the death sentence to Sarvan for killing his three children and wife after she objected to his affair with his sister-in-law. He also killed a neighbour and her son when they tried to stop him

UN experts alarmed over Myanmar junta's decision to enforce death sentences

In the face of increasing human rights violations, the experts urged the international community to exert greater pressure on Myanmar's military

Man awarded death sentence for raping minor daughter in Chennai; victim's mother handed life sentence

The matter came to light in 2020 when the victim studying in Class XI at a school in Chennai revealed it to her friends, who informed it to one of their teachers

Sri Lanka welcomes death sentence to six accused for lynching its national in Pakistan

Sri Lanka's Foreign Ministry welcomed the verdict by the Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore that sentenced six people to death

Three get death sentence for rape-murder of two minor girls in Assam's Kokrajhar

The bodies of the two minor girls were found hanging from a tree last year

Bombay HC commutes death sentence of Gavit Sisters: Tracing back the horrific crimes of Maharashtra's serial killer sisters

Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit were convicted by the Kolhapur Sessions Court for the kidnappings of 13 children and killing five of them brutally between 1990 and 1996, and sentenced to death in 2001