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China upholds death sentence of 'wrongfully detained' US citizen Mark Swid
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
An intermediate court of China on Thursday denied the 'wrongfully detained' US national Mark Swidan's appeal, and upheld his death penalty with a two-year suspended death sentence, an official release of the US State Department said on Thursday.
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Jaipur blast case: Kin of victims express dismay over Rajasthan HC judgeme
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Relatives of the victims of the 2008 serial Jaipur blasts case have expressed disappointment at the Rajasthan High Court order on Wednesday that acquitted four men who were given the death sentence by a lower court.
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"Something seriously lacking in our system": Sachin Pilot slams acquittal
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Speaking to reporters at his Jaipur residence on Thursday, the Congress leader said, "Those involved in the Jaipur serial blasts case were caught, convicted and sentenced. However, despite a lower court awarding the death sentences to the convicts, they were acquitted by the high court. T
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UP: Man convicted of raping and killing minor girl sentenced to death
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A special court on Wednesday sentenced the accused in the rape and murder of a minor girl to death, informed police.
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SC sets aside death sentence of rape-murder convict after finding he was j
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A bench of justices BR Gavai, Vikram Nath and Sanjay Karol set aside the death sentence of the accused, convicted in a December 2017 rape and murder case in Madhya Pradesh.
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Bhopal-Ujjain train blast case: NIA court awards death penalty to 7 of 8 c
Updated : 3 years ago IST
National Investigation Agency Special Court on Tuesday gave death sentences to seven out of eight convicts in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case.
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Ghaziabad: Special court convicts man of rape, murder of minor girl, sente
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad on Saturday convicted a man of raping and killing a six-year-old girl and awarded the convict a death sentence.
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Chhattisgarh: Court gives death sentence to man for killing parents
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The offence came to light in 2016 after the convict, Udyan Das, was arrested from his residence in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal in connection with the murder of his girlfriend in 2017.
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Iran executes British-Iranian Alireza Akbari, UK PM Sunak condemns 'coward
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Akbari's death sentence was announced just days ago, on January 11, after he was convicted of spying for the United Kingdom. However, Akbari, who was also a former Iranian official, had denied the charges, as per CNN.
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Iran sentences three more protesters to death, amid global outrage
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amid the global unrest over the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the Iranian judiciary on Monday handed down three more death sentences, reported France24.
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Pakistan: Over 100 persons convicted, sentenced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Over 100 persons were convicted and sentenced to death by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa courts in 2022 and the total of prisoners with death sentences has crossed 450 including women, reported Pak vernacular media Aeen.
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SC stays death penalty of man accused of killing wife, kids
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Supreme Court on Saturday stayed the execution of the death sentence awarded to a man by an Allahabad High Court bench, till further orders and directed to constitute a suitable team for carrying out a psychological evaluation of the appellant man, accused of killing his wife and childre
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