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Delhi court awards death penalty to Batla House encounter case convict Ari
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): A Delhi Court on Monday awarded the death penalty to the 2008 Batla House encounter case convict Ariz Khan calling it the rarest of rare case.
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Delhi Police demands death penalty for Batla House case convict Ariz Khan
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): The Delhi Police on Monday urged a Delhi Court to award the death penalty to convict Ariz Khan in the 2008 Batla House encounter case.
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Political, economic, social factors affect local decisions about death pen
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 11 (ANI): The findings of a new study by researchers at Missouri State University and American University examined the factors associated with the use of the death penalty at the county level to provide a fuller picture of what issues influence court outcomes.
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Patna school principal sentenced to death for raping minor student
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], February 16 (ANI): A Patna court has awarded the death penalty to a private school principal for raping and impregnating his 11-year-old student in the year 2018.
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Kazakhstan ratifies international protocol to abolish death penalty
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], January 2 (ANI/Sputnik): Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a law ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which entails a formal commitment to abolish the death penalty, his press service said
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Death penalty for rape, tough provisions in Maharashtra's proposed 'Shakti
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 10 (ANI): Maharashtra Cabinet has approved draft bills for strengthening the law on prevention of atrocities against women, children while "Shakti Act" which envisages death sentence for rape, acid attack and child abuse and the period of investigation
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Bangladesh's cabinet gives nod to death penalty for rape
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 12 (ANI/Xinhua): The Bangladeshi government on Monday approved a proposal for stringent punishment for rapists.
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WB: Villagers vandalise house of alleged murderers in East Burdwan
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Burdwan (West Bengal) [India], September 19 (ANI): Villagers in the East Burdwan district in West Bengal vandalised the house of three persons on Friday, accused of 'kidnapping' and 'murdering' the nine-year-old son of a panchayat member, and demanded a death penalty for them.
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US to seek death penalty again for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for Boston Marathon b
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], Aug 21 (ANI/Sputnik): US Attorney General William Barr will again seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing, the Associated Press reported.
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Maharashtra's Chikhli Police Station celebrate conviction of 2 accused of
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Buldhana (Maharashtra) [India], August 14 (ANI): The Chikhli Police Station located in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district was all decked up for a special occasion on Thursday night as the cops celebrated the conviction of two men accused of raping a nine-year-old girl.
Accused in rape, murder of minor in Vijayawada gets death penalty
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Aug 5 (ANI): A special POSCO court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to an accused Barlapudi Pentiah for the rape and murder of a minor girl.
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Federal govt must again seek death penalty for Boston bomber, says Donald
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Aug 3 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that the federal government must again seek the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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