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Javed Miandad calls for 'death penalty' for match-fixers
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Mar. 18 (ANI): Calling for strong measures in order to avoid match fixing, former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has suggested that those found guilty should be given "death penalty".
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Turkey may seek reinstatement of death penalty punishment
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Feb. 25 (ANI): Turkey may seek to reinstate death penalty on grounds of public demand, country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
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B'desh: 26 people including ex-members of elite force handed death se
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan. 17 (ANI): In a landmark ruling, a Bangladesh court has handed down death penalty to 26 of the 35 guilty for the murder of seven people in Narayanganj in 2014.
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Pak senator suggests death penalty for politicians consuming alcohol
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 14 (ANI): Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Shahi Syed has suggested death penalty for politicians who consume alcohol.
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Charleston church shooter awarded death penalty
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Jan. 11 (ANI): Dylann Roof, the man who killed nine people in a massacre at a historically black Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015, has been awarded a death sentence for his crime.
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Chhattisgarh murder case: SC pulls up Delhi HC
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday raised serious questions on how the Delhi High Court could put a stay on the death penalty of Sonu Sardar, who has been awarded death penalty for killing five persons of a family during a dacoity bid in Chhattisgarh's Cher v
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Turkish Parliament to consider bringing back death penalty: Erdogan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [United Kingdom], Oct. 29 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he would ask the Parliament to consider reintroducing the death penalty.
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JMB man executed in Bangladesh
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Oct. 17 (ANI): Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) member Asadul Islam Arif, who was given the death penalty in the Jhalakathi judges killing case, has been hanged in the Khulna district jail in Bangladesh.
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Jabalpur rape case: SC commutes death penalty of convict
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 16 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday commuted the death penalty of a convict in a rape and murder case of a seven-year-old girl that took place in 2011 in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
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Soumya murder: SC scraps Govindachamy's death penalty
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside death sentence given to convict Govindachamy in Soumya murder case.
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