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Iran must halt execution of Kurdish prisoner: UN rights experts
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): The imminent execution of an Iranian Kurdish prisoner must be halted and his death sentence repealed, UN-appointed independent human rights experts said on Friday.
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Canada condemns China over upholding death sentence of its citizen
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Toronto [Ottawa], August 10 (ANI): Canada strongly condemned Beijing's decision to uphold the death sentence against its citizen Robert Schellenberg on Tuesday.
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Japan's apex court upholds death sentence for 'Black Widow' serial killer
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 1 (ANI): Japan's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence given to a 74-year-old serial killer, known as the "Black Widow," for the murder of three men, including her husband, and the attempted murder of a fourth.
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Being Black, Latino, or Asian should not be death sentence: Hillary Clinto
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 17 (ANI): Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday raised the issue of police shooting and growing hate crime against the minority communities in the United States.
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Batla House encounter case: Court orders Rs 10 lakh compensation to kin of
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): The Delhi court hearing 2008 Batla House encounter case on Monday ordered compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family members of Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma while giving death sentence to the convict Ariz Khan.
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Pakistani cleric sentenced to death for raping minor in Peshawar
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 14 (ANI): A Pakistani court has sentenced a cleric to death for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in Peshawar city two years ago.
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Shabnam's son urges President to commute her death sentence
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 19 (ANI): Mohammed Taj, son of death row convict Shabnam, on Thursday appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to commute her death sentence.
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Beant Singh assassination: SC adjourns for six weeks plea for commuting Ra
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 12 (ANI): The Central Government on Friday told the Supreme Court that the process of examining mercy pleas filed on behalf of Balwant Singh Rajoana, awarded a death sentence for the assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995, has been sta
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SC gives two weeks to Centre to decide on mercy plea of convict in Beant S
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 26 (ANI): The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it is examining the mercy pleas filed on behalf of death sentence convict Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is in jail for 26 years for the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
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Belarus issues first death sentence this year
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], January 15 (ANI/Sputnik): A court in Belarus re-sentenced a man to capital punishment on murder charges, Minsk-based human rights center Viasna said on Friday.
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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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Beant Singh killing: SC quizzes Centre over delay in proposal to commute R
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Central government when will it send a proposal to the President for the commutation of Balwant Singh Rajoana's death sentence for killing then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
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