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Alabama executes man for killing of three fast food restaurant workers in
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], June 9 (ANI): Alabama prison authorities have confirmed the execution of a 46-year-old man who was convicted and placed on death row for the killing three people at a fast-food restaurant during a 1994 robbery in Alabama.
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Confident that SC will give justice to our daughter: Nirbhaya's paren
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): With Supreme Court set to pronounce verdict on the appeals filed by four death row convicts against death penalty in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, the parents of the victim on Friday said they are sure that the apex court will award death sentence to
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SC dismisses petition of death row convict Vasant Dupare
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition of death row convict Vasant Dupare, who was given a death sentence for rape and murder of a minor in 2008.
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LS adjourned till noon over E. Ahamed death row
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 3 (ANI): The Lok Sabha was on Friday adjourned till noon over the Congress' assertion of insulting former union minister and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader E. Ahamed by going ahead with Union Budget presentation.
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SC to hear Sonu Sardar's appeal in Chhattisgarh murder case
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the appeal of death row convict, Sonu Sardar, who was sentenced to the gallows for brutally killing five people of a family in Chhattisgarh.
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Convicted killer of 2 in Fort Worth set to die Wednesday evening
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [United States), Jan.11 (ANI): Death row inmate Christopher Wilkins, 48, will be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening after he failed to get a reprieve from the United States Supreme Court,media reports in Huntsville, Texas, said.
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Pakistan remains world's third most prolific executioner
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Dec. 18 (ANI): Pakistan has been the third most prolific executioner in the world for two consecutive years with 419 prisoners on death row already executed thus far.
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SC to hear case of death row convict Sonu Sardar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear the case of death row convict Sonu Sardar.
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ACHR welcomes NHRC recommendation in Bara massacre case
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.29 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir K
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Pakistan put to death 324 persons having no terror links: Pakistan Human R
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct. 15 (ANI): As many as 324 people, most of them having no links to terrorism, were put to death in Pakistan, while another 8,000 prisoners stayed on death row as the 21st constitutional and corresponding amendments to the Army Act 1952, has given the military courts
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Suicide the easy way out, must ensure Nirbhaya convict swings from gallows
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 25 (ANI): With Vinay Sharma, one of the four death row convicts in the sensational December 16 gangrape case, allegedly trying to commit suicide in Tihar Jail, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday asserted that the responsible jail authorities must foil any su
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Indonesia to execute 14 death row prisoners tonight
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London, July 28 (ANI): The Indonesian authorities have directed the spiritual advisers and families of inmates on death row to prepare for executions tonight as coffins were ferried to the prison island of Nusa Kambangan this morning.
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