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August 25, 2025
Explained | Will Supreme Court's action in 2017 Dupare case provide lifeline to other convicts facing death sentence?
The Supreme Court set aside its 2017 order upholding Vasanta Sampat Dupare's death sentence, mandating a fresh hearing. Citing the Manoj judgment, the Court emphasized procedural fairness and evaluation of mitigating factors
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July 14, 2025
India roped in influential Sheikh to negotiate mercy for Nimisha Priya but Yemen maintains 'honour’ is non-negotiable
Even if the family and well-wishers of the Kerala nurse manage to raise more "blood money," a significant hurdle may persist, as Yemeni authorities reportedly maintain that "honour" is non-negotiable
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November 04, 2024
Iran hangs Jewish citizen Arvin Ghahremani amidst Israel crisis explained; why Tehran's 'Qisas' law is biased towards minorities
Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, a 20-year-old Jewish Iranian was executed for killing one Amir Shokri in an act of self defence; Jewish Iranians say Tehran asked Shokri's family not to accept blood money
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April 12, 2024
The Kerala Story: Malayalis crowdsource about Rs 30 Cr in four days to save man from gallows in Saudi Arabia
Keralites managed to find Rs 33.24 Cr demanded as blood money by the Riyadh family
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July 28, 2023
Singapore hangs first woman in 19 years after she was convicted of trafficking 31 gms of heroin
The last time a woman was executed in Singapore was in 2004
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March 07, 2022
Yemen court upholds death penalty of Kerala nurse
Yemen's supreme court is unlikely to reverse the appellate court's decision
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March 05, 2021
Bihar court awards death sentence to 9 in hooch case; 4 women get lifer
19 people died in Khajurbani, Bihar in 2016 after drinking spurious liquor
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December 12, 2020
Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
Zam used Telegram to communicate timings of the protests
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July 14, 2020
US executes Daniel Lewis Lee, first federal execution in nearly 2 decades
Lee was a white supremist who murdered an Arkansas family of three in 1996
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February 02, 2020
Nirbhaya case: Delhi HC reserves judgement on Centre's plea against stay of execution
Centre cites the Hyderabad vet gangrape case, says judiciary's credibility at stake
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December 27, 2019
Japan executes Chinese man who murdered family of four
This is Japan's first execution of a foreigner in a decade
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December 17, 2019
Death penalties in India: Convictions and Acquittals
The apex court last year commuted 11 death sentences to life imprisonment
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December 08, 2019
Nirbhaya rape case: Tihar jail approaches other prisons for hangman
Afzal Guru was the last person to be hanged in Tihar, in 2013
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October 25, 2019
Mangaluru court sentences serial killer 'Cyanide' Mohan to death
A Mangaluru court has sentenced a notorious serial killer to death for the murder of
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August 21, 2019
US to execute serial killer Gary Ray Bowles on August 22
Gary Ray Bowles was convicted of killing six gay men in 1994
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August 20, 2019
Bihar court blast case: Death penalty for one, life sentence for seven
Lambu Sharma tried to escape prison with the help of a suicide bomber
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August 05, 2019
Trump suggests death penalty for those who commit hate crimes, mass murder
31 were killed including the gunman in two mass shootings on Sunday
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July 25, 2019
US to resume federal executions for first time since 2003
Five inmates will be executed at a federal facility in Indiana
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August 22, 2018
Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty against female human rights activist
Israa al-Ghomgham is the first woman to possibly face the death penalty
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April 22, 2018
CPI(M) in-principle against death penalty: Brinda Karat
Karat said the actual issue is that those in the government are defending the rapists
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