Batla House encounter: Delhi HC reserves order on appeals by convicts, death reference by Prosecution

Nov 15, 2022

The trial court had awarded Ariz Khan a death sentence in the matter. Another convict Shahzad was awarded a life sentence. They had challenged...

"Nothing less than capital punishment...": CM Mamata welcomes death penalty for rape convict

Dec 13, 2024

A local court in Bengal's Murshidabad handed a death sentence to a rape convict and a life sentence to the other in the rape-murder...

Pakistan man gets death sentence for blasphemy

Dec 24, 2021

Islamabad [Pakistan], December 24 : A local Pakistan court has convicted a man hailing from Charsadda district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of committing blasphemy...

Belarus issues first death sentence this year

Jan 15, 2021

Moscow [Russia], January 15 (ANI/Sputnik): A court in Belarus re-sentenced a man to capital punishment on murder charges, Minsk-based human rights center Viasna said...

Shabnam's son urges President to commute her death sentence

Feb 19, 2021

Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 19 : Mohammed Taj, son of death row convict Shabnam, on Thursday appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to...

Canada condemns China over upholding death sentence of its citizen

Aug 10, 2021

Toronto [Ottawa], August 10 : Canada strongly condemned Beijing's decision to uphold the death sentence against its citizen Robert Schellenberg on Tuesday.