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    Death Row Convict News

    SC dismisses plea seeking abolition of execution by hanging

    SC dismisses plea seeking abolition of execution by hanging
    India News
    Published 5 days ago

    SC asks Centre if death row convicts can pick execution method

    The Union government had in an earlier affidavit maintained that hanging remained the “safest and quickest” method of execution.
    India News
    Updated 311 days ago

    CM assassination: Why Rajoana not hanged till now, SC asks after Centre says serious offence

    CM assassination: Why Rajoana not hanged till now, SC asks after Centre says serious offence
    India News
    Published 333 days ago

    ‘In touch with friendly governments’: MEA on Nimisha Priya case

    Randhir Jaiswal’s remarks come days after the Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that efforts to secure a pardon for Nimisha Priya should be undertaken solely by her family
    India News
    Updated 396 days ago

    Will seek community’s consensus on withdrawing Rajoana’s mercy plea: SGPC

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami during a meeting in Amritsar on Monday. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 474 days ago

    SGPC delegation meets Rajoana, slams Centre for delay in mercy plea decision

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Harjinder Singh Dhami, comes out of the Patiala Central Jail after meeting with convict Balwant Singh Rajoana on Friday. (ANI)
    Cities
    Published 477 days ago

    US President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

    Joe Biden's move comes ahead of US Presidenti-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025.
    World News
    Published 608 days ago

    Death row convict Rajoana calls for Sikh unity to fight ‘conspiracy’

    Balwant Singh Rajoana (centre), a death row convict in the Beant Singh assassination case, attending the prayer meet of his brother, Kulwant Singh, at a gurdwara in Ludhiana on Wednesday. The high court granted him a three-hour parole to attend the ceremony. (HT Photo)
    Cities
    Published 641 days ago

    Beant case: SC puts on hold its order to President’s secy on Rajoana plea

    Balwant Singh Rajoana is convicted in the 1995 assassination case of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh. A special court sentenced Rajoana to death in July 2007. (HT file photo)
    Cities
    Published 643 days ago

    Balwant Singh Rajoana shoots off letter to home minister Amit Shah

    Balwant Singh Rajoana
    Cities
    Updated 963 days ago

    SAD leaders stopped from meeting Rajoana: SGPC chief slams ‘autocratic attitude’ of govt

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (HT file)
    Cities
    Updated 992 days ago

    SAD leaders Majithia, Valtoha not allowed to meet Rajoana in Patiala jail

    Former Punjab minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikramjit Singh Majithia leaves after he was barred from meeting Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in the 1995 assassination of former chief minister Beant Singh, at Central Jail in Patiala on Monday. (ANI)
    Cities
    Updated 992 days ago

    Executive meeting: Won’t withdraw Rajoana mercy petition, says SGPC

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami (C) addresses a press conference in Amritsar on Sunday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)
    Cities
    Updated 993 days ago

    SGPC executive meet: Take quick decision on Rajoana plea: SGPC to Centre

    Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Harjinder Singh Dhami (C) addressing a press conference in Amritsar on Thursday. (Sameer Sehgal/HT)
    Cities
    Updated 996 days ago

    SGPC chief meets Rajoana amid hunger strike threat

    The meeting comes in the backdrop of Rajoana’s threat to go on a hunger strike if his mercy petition, which was filed by the SGPC in March 2012, is not withdrawn. (HT File)
    Cities
    Updated 998 days ago

    Kerala nurse on death row: Yemeni family agrees to accept compensation

    Nimisha Priya is from Palakkad district in Kerala. (File)
    India News
    Updated 1583 days ago

    Supreme Court commutes death sentence to allow rape convict’s reformation

    Taking into consideration the brutal nature of the crime, the Supreme Court bench was open to the convict’s death sentence being commuted to a life sentence. (ANI)
    India News
    Updated 1586 days ago

    'I love my mother': Shabnam's son to President to commute her death sentence

    Shabnam and Saleem were arrested within days of the murders and were sentenced to death by the trial court in 2010, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2015.
    India News
    Published 2011 days ago
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