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Intense fighting continues in Ukraine's Severodonetsk
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kyiv [Ukraine], June 10 (ANI): Fierce fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces continued on Thursday in Severodonetsk.
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Myanmar: Junta vows to enforce death sentences
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 8 (ANI): Myanmar's military junta announced on June 3, that it would execute four people whose appeals were rejected following grossly unjust closed-door trials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
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China: Former Communist party official sentenced to death over bribery, in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Shenzhen [China], June 7 (ANI): Tong Daochi, a former Communist party official of south China's Hainan Province, was recently sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a Chinese court for bribery and insider trading.
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Man gets death sentence in Sakinaka rape-murder case
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 2 (ANI): Dindoshi sessions court here on Thursday gave the death sentence to a man convicted in connection with the rape of a 30-year-old woman in Sakinaka in September 2021.
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Immunotherapy has emerged as effective treatment for patients with Blood C
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 28 (ANI/NewsVoir): Blood cancer has long been regarded as a death sentence. However, over the last 2 decades there has been considerable progression in the treatment of blood cancer with survival rates ranging from 60 to 80 per cent in various subtypes. On
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SC commutes death sentence of rape-murder convict to life imprisonment
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a man accused of raping and murdering a minor into life imprisonment, observing the possibility and the probability of the reformation and rehabilitation of the man.
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Beant Singh killing: SC directs Centre to decide Rajoana's plea for commut
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to decide within two months mercy petition of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was awarded the death sentence for the assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995.
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SC reserves order on plea of death row convict, who claims to be kept in s
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): The Supreme Court reserved the judgement on a petition of a death row convict challenging the Karnataka High Court order which dismissed his plea challenging the executability of his death sentence, pursuant to the rejection of his mercy petition filed b
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SC reserves order on plea of death row convict, who claims to be kept in s
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (ANI): The Supreme Court has reserved the judgement on a plea of a death row convict, who has claimed to be kept in solitary confinement right from the decision of the Sessions Court awarding him a death sentence, challenging the Karnataka High Court order.
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SC initiates suo motu case to frame guidelines on sentencing in death pena
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 22 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday initiated a suo motu case to consider the larger issue of considering the process to be followed by the courts in the country while deciding the award of the death sentence.
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SC commutes death sentence to life of rape-murder convict
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): The Supreme Court while commuting the death sentence of a convict, who murdered and raped a four-year-old girl, to life imprisonment, observed that maximum punishment prescribed may not always be the determinative factor for repairing the crippled psyche of
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Pakistan court awards death sentence to 6 in Priyantha Kumara lynching
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 18 (ANI): A Pakistani court on Monday awarded the death sentence to six and handed life imprisonment to seven as it announced its verdict in Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara's lynching case that had sparked nationwide outrage.
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