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Canada requests clemency for citizen sentenced to death in China
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], Jan 16 (ANI): Canada has officially asked China to spare its citizen, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg's life after he was handed a death penalty in a drug trafficking case.
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SC commutes Pune bus accident convict's death penalty to life sentence
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 9 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to bus driver Santosh Mane, convicted for killing nine people in 2012, by mowing them down in Pune.
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Khashoggi murder case trial 'not sufficient': UNHRC
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 4 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has denied evaluating the ongoing trial of slain Saudi Arabia journalist Jamal Khashoggi and called it to be insufficient.
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Khashoggi's murder: Saudi Arabia holds initial hearing
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], Jan 4 (ANI): Saudi Arabia held the initial hearing in the Jamal Khashoggi murder case, wherein the public prosecutor sought the death penalty for five of the 11 accused for their alleged direct involvement in the murder.
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Centre approves death penalty in aggravated sexual offences under POCSO
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 28 (ANI): The Union cabinet on Friday approved death penalty in aggravated sexual offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
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Nirbhaya death row: SC dismisses plea seeking execution of four convicts w
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India] Dec 12 (ANI): Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the PIL filed by laywer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, seeking a direction to the Centre to execute the death penalty awarded to four convicts -- Mukesh, Pawan, Vinay and Akshay -- in the sensational Nirbhaya gangrape and murder c
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Uttarakhand: Rape-Murder accused sentenced to the death penalty
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], Dec 12 (ANI): A Dehradun court has awarded death sentence to an accused involved in a 2016 rape and murder case. ADJ 3rd Gurbaksh Singh pronounced the verdict on Wednesday.
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'Julian Assange should leave Ecuador Embassy only if British govt guarante
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Quito [Ecuador], Dec 7 (ANI): Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said on Thursday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should leave the Ecuadorian Embassy in London only if the United Kingdom guarantees that the 47-year-old Australian will not be extradited to a third country where he could
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SC commutes death to life imprisonment to rape, murder case convict
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 28 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday commuted death sentence to life imprisonment to a man who was convicted in a rape and triple murder case, after noting that death penalty is awarded only in those cases where there is no chance of a convict's reform.
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SC to review death penalty awarded to man killing his family
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Nov 21 (ANI):- In a rare decision, the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday decided to review its final decision of awarding a man death penalty for the murder of four children and a woman with whom he was living as husband and wife.
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Badals hail death penalty, life to anti-Sikh riots accused
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Nov 20 (ANI): Former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday welcomed the judgment of a Delhi court sentencing one of the killers of innocent Sikhs in November 1984 to death and sentencing another to life
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Punjab CM welcomes court's decision in 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh, (India), Nov 20, (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday welcomed the Delhi court's decision in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The court pronounced the death penalty to one accused Yashpal Singh and awarded life imprisonment to another accused Naresh Sehrawat.
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