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...

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...

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...

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.