The gesture will go a long way in assuaging the sentiments of the Sikh community, Badal said in a press statement. read more

Robert Soli, driver of the car 42-year-old Dhaliwal had pulled over for checking, was charged with murder and faces the death penalty if found guilty. read more

Rather than stricter provisions, enforce the current law, be sensitive to victims, and ensure certainty of punishment read more

Robert Bowers, is an accused of busting into a Pittsburgh synagogue last year with a semi-automatic rifle and shooting 11 people to death, while shouting “all Jews must die”. read more

The execution itself proceeded with nothing unusual happening, other than Bowles speaking to himself perhaps in prayer before the procedure was carried out. read more

A year ago, Irfan, a migrant from Uttar Pradesh who was convicted in December 2016 gang-rape case was awarded “life imprisonment until death” in another gang-rape case from November 2017. read more

Rajasthan is the first state in India to have a special law to deal with hate crimes against couples, and second after Madhya Pradesh to make a law against mob lynching. The bill on hate crimes also provides punishment for holding assemblies to condemn... read more

The Rajasthan Prohibition of Interference with the Freedom of Matrimonial Alliances in the Name of Honour and Tradition Bill, 2019, was tabled in the Assembly on July 30. read more

Justices RF Nariman and Surya Kant confirmed Manoharan’s death sentence while justice Sanjiv Khanna dissented saying the case did not fall under the rarest of the rare category to warrant capital punishment. read more

Attorney General William Barr instructed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions starting in December for five men, all accused of murdering children. Although the death penalty remains legal in 30 states, executions on the federal level are ra... read more

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Rajesh will, however, have to serve the three jail terms separately, the court said. He will also have to pay a fine of Rs 3.20 lakh to the girl’s family members, many of whom were present in the court. read more

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday ordered Pakistan to review the death penalty given to former Indian navy official Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav read more

Delivering the quantum of punishment, the court said he was spared the death sentence considering his age. But he has to undergo three life terms and an additional jail term of 26 years. The court also observed that all three life terms will have to... read more

A district court in Punjab’s Pathankot had in June this year convicted six men for the gang rape and murder of the nomadic Muslim girl, crime which stirred nationwide outrage and pushed the central government to introduce the death penalty for convicted... read more