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Indian woman on death row in UAE executed last month: MEA tells Delhi HC
Ministry of external affairs informed Delhi HC that her last rites will be held on March 5 in Abu Dhabi, assuring full support to her family for arrangements.
Updated on Mar 03, 2025 10:00 PM IST
HT News Desk | Written by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
Providing all assistance to family of Indian woman on death row in Yemen: Govt
Nimisha Priya was arrested in July 2017 for murdering her business partner, a Yemeni man . She was sentenced to death by a Yemeni court in 2020
Updated on Feb 13, 2025 09:08 PM IST
US Supreme Court gives boost to woman who claimed murder conviction tainted by 'sexist stereotyping'
USA-COURT/DISCRIMINATION (PIX):US Supreme Court gives boost to woman who claimed murder conviction tainted by 'sexist stereotyping'
Published on Jan 21, 2025 08:37 PM IST
Reuters |
Nimisha Priya case handled by Houthis, not ratified by president: Yemen embassy
Nimisha Priya is currently in jail in Yemen's capital Sana'a, which is under Houthi control. She was issued a death sentence for killing a Yemeni national
Updated on Jan 06, 2025 10:02 PM IST
HT News Desk | Edited by Ria Amol Wadikar
Outgoing North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences
Outgoing North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences
Published on Jan 01, 2025 08:33 AM IST
AP |
India extending all help to Indian woman sentenced to death in Yemen
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the government is extending all help in Priya’s case while her family explores “relevant options”
Updated on Dec 31, 2024 04:50 PM IST
Who is Nimisha Priya, Indian nurse on death row in Yemen?
Nurse Nimisha Priya has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the 2017 murder of a Yemeni national. Her execution, approved Yemen by President is imminent.
Updated on Dec 31, 2024 11:00 AM IST
US President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates
Notably, there had been no federal inmates put to death in the United States since 2003 until Trump resumed federal executions in July 2020.
Published on Dec 23, 2024 04:04 PM IST
AFP |
Anshuman Gaekwad's death: Cricketers, protégés, fraternity mourn the Test icon
Cricketers such as Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir and others mourned the demise of former cricket icon Anshuman Gaekwad.
Published on Aug 01, 2024 04:50 PM IST
A Georgia death row inmate says a prosecutor hid a plea deal with a key witness, tainting his trial
A Georgia death row inmate says a prosecutor hid a plea deal with a key witness, tainting his trial
Published on Jul 18, 2024 12:32 AM IST
AP |
Hearing set to determine if a Missouri death row inmate is innocent. His execution is a month later
Hearing set to determine if a Missouri death row inmate is innocent. His execution is a month later
Published on Jul 03, 2024 12:46 AM IST
AP |
Georgia set to resume executions after a 4-year pause due to Covid
In April 2021, the state attorney general's office entered into an agreement with attorneys for death row prisoners to suspend executions.
Published on Mar 11, 2024 11:29 PM IST
AP |
Idaho fails to execute serial killer Thomas Creech after 10 failed attempts
Idaho's botched execution of nation's longest-serving death row inmate, Thomas Creech, as medical team fails to find suitable veins for lethal injection.
Published on Feb 29, 2024 06:35 AM IST
561 inmates on death row in India, highest in 20 years: Report
The report noted that the rate of disposal of death penalty confirmation proceedings at the high court in 2023 had seen a decrease of 15% in prisoners since the previous year.
Published on Feb 11, 2024 05:47 PM IST
Saptarshi Das
Why is US executing using Nitrogen gas?
Controversy surrounds the execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, the first person in the US to be executed by nitrogen gas.
Published on Jan 26, 2024 10:01 AM IST
Sentences of 8 ex-Navy men on death row in Qatar reduced: MEA
MEA said the court of appeals in Doha reduced their sentences.
Published on Dec 28, 2023 03:34 PM IST
Kerala HC to conduct 'mitigation investigation' for first time in its history
As part of the mitigation investigation, the High Court has decided to re-examine the death penalties of two convicts Nino Mathew and Ameerul Islam.
Published on May 16, 2023 07:39 PM IST
ANI | | Posted by Sreelakshmi B
472 convicts were on death row as of 2021: Govt tells Parliament
The government in 2018 told the Supreme Court the death penalty is given to those convicts who have acted with extreme brutality, and depravity or carried out premeditated or socially abhorrent acts
Updated on Apr 06, 2023 11:04 AM IST
Kerala nurse on death row: Yemeni family agrees to accept compensation
Nimisha Priya’s case dates back to 2017 when she and her colleague Hanan, another Yemini national, injected Talal Abu Mehadi with sedatives and killed him.
Updated on Apr 23, 2022 06:46 AM IST
Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram
We must change our understanding of people who’re addicted: David Sheff
The Beautiful Boy author on the implications of pushing addicts into depths of seclusion, the need for better reform structures and his latest book The Buddhist on Death Row
Updated on Oct 28, 2020 11:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Navneet Vyasan
SC seeks Centre’s reply on death row convict’s mercy plea pending for 8 years
The convict, Balwant Singh Rajoana, was sentenced to death for the murder of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh who died in a bomb explosion in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. He filed a mercy petition before the President on March 25, 2012 but has heard nothing on it till date.
Updated on Sep 12, 2020 08:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Dlehi | Abraham Thomas
‘Don’t indulge in politics over Delhi gang rape case’: Kejriwal tells Smriti Irani
Irani had earlier on Friday said that it was because of the Aam Aadmi Party government in the Capital that the convicts on death row could not be hanged in a time-bound manner after their review petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court in July 2019.
Updated on Aug 27, 2020 12:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Another Delhi gang rape case convict files curative petition in Supreme Court
On Tuesday, a Delhi court issued death warrants against Mukesh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) and said they will be hanged on January 22 at 7 am in the capital’s Tihar Jail.
Updated on Jan 10, 2020 12:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
As Tihar gears up, the mechanics of a hanging in India
On December 16, 2012, Pawan Gupta, Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Mukesh Singh, Ram Singh, and a 17-year-old assaulted and gang raped the 23-year-old.
Updated on Dec 12, 2019 12:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Prawesh Lama
Supreme Court dismisses review plea of Coimbatore rape-murder convict
In a majority judgment of 2:1, a bench headed by Justice R F Nariman dismissed the plea filed by the convict Manoharan and said there are no grounds to review the verdict.
Published on Nov 07, 2019 12:18 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Man on death row for allegedly murdering 12-year-old boy set free by Bombay HC
The court acquitted the convict of all charges, saying the prosecution had failed to prove the offences against him ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.
Updated on Aug 15, 2019 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Kanchan Chaudhari
Bombay high court acquits man on death row for boy’s kidnapping and murder; clears accomplice
The bench also acquitted his purported accomplice Azad Mehrunddula Ansari, 28, for want of satisfactory evidence.
Updated on Aug 14, 2019 02:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Kanchan Chaudhari
Sri Lanka’s plan to revive death row for convicts after 42 yrs, Amnesty worried
The London-based rights group said it was “alarmed” over media reports of preparations to resume hangings although the country still does not have a qualified hangman.
Published on Jun 25, 2019 05:29 PM IST
Colombo, Sri lanka | Agence France-Presse
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi has left the country: lawyer and media
Pakistani-Christian woman Asia Bibi who spent 8 year on death row over false blasphemy charges has left the country more than 6 months after she was acquitted by Pakistan’s Top Court.
Updated on May 08, 2019 05:41 PM IST
Islamabad | Reuters
HT Picks: The Most Interesting Books of the Week
This week’s good reads include a book on Elections 2019, another that’s a plea against capital punishment, and a volume on how we are becoming vulnerable to digital platforms
Updated on Mar 15, 2019 03:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Team
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