The court said that the the law should impose a punishment befitting the crime.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday pronounced death sentence to a schoolteacher in a case of raping a four-year-old girl in Satna district.
Confirming the death penalty of the convict, Mahendra Singh Gond, a division bench of justices P K Jaiswal
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LINCOLN, NEB. --The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Friday filed by eight death-row inmates who argued that their sentences were invalidated by the Legislature's repeal of capital punishment in 2015, before voters overturned the ban.Justices denied the inmates' request for a
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says death row inmate Warren Keith Henness' motion is an abuse of the court systemA prosecutor is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to reject a condemned man's request to delay his execution set for next month.Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien says death
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JEFFERSON CITY - Rep. Jim Neely, R-Cameron, proposed a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to donate their organs.House Bill 630 would require lethal injections to be administered in a way that would not affect the inmates' organs.It would be a way for inmates to "pay
A Democratic Legislator has introduced a bill that would eliminate the Death Penalty in Washington state, but it would be under the guise of saving the state money.While many believe the penalty is a deterrent to various types of crimes, given the current situation concerning the penalty, it
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On your local ‘A’ road. Every Saturday.Shoulder2Shoulder have initiated this protest so that women can mobilise their friends, family and neignbours to develop local solidarity with everyone else who has paid into the National Insurance Fund in good faith, only to find out that governments haveRobert Jennings files new motions in 1988 murder caseThe state still hopes to execute its 1st inmate of 2019 before January's end. Blaine Milam was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Jan. 15, but with 24 hours left to live, he was granted a stay by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and his
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A Christian leader in Pakistan has warned that radical Islamists are still trying to find Christian mother Asia Bibi 'so they can kill her'.Months after her death sentence for blasphemy was overturned by the Pakistani Supreme Court, Bibi remains in hiding and is 'anything but safe', according to
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The controversy over the announced early release of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, and then subsequent government backtracking on, is likely to continue for some time even after the government essentially confirmed that it wasn’t going to happen yesterday.One remaining source of controversy
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Death is not as popular as it used to be.Back in 1994, Gallup found that a record 80 % of Americans favored the death penalty for people convicted of murder. By last year, however, support for executions had sunk to 56 % — one of the lowest marks since the 1970s, according to Gallup’s polling
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Story of Iwao Hakamada, boxer who spent 48 years on death row, to become manga seriesThe story of Iwao Hakamada, a former professional boxer and death-row inmate, 82, who continues to battle to clear his name over a 1966 quadruple murder, will be adapted into a manga series, supporters of the
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); January 23, 2018: A prisoner was executed at Sepidar Prison in the Iranian southern city of Ahvaz (Ahwaz).According to IHR sources, on the morning of Tuesday, January 22, 2019, a man identified as Rahman Jasemi Zargani was executed at Sepidar (also known as Qods) prison
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); January 25, 2019: A prisoner was hanged yesterday at the prison of Tabas, South Khorasan Province, Iran. According to Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), on the morning of Thursday, January 24, at Tabas central prison. He was arrested in the summer of 2017 for murdering
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The Supreme Court yesterday acquitted 3 persons who had been awarded death penalty in a murder case. The death sentence awarded to a 4th accused was commuted to life imprisonment.The judgment was rendered by a Bench of Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv
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The Spanish citizen has been on death row in the US for 16 years over a 1994 triple murder, and was recently retried due to serious flaws at the original trialIn a new twist to the story of Pablo Ibar, who is on death row in the United States for a triple murder committed in 1994, a member
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One reason for the higher number is an amendment extending capital punishment in cases of sexual assault on girls below 12 years of age.New Delhi: A legislative intervention to extend capital punishment to non-homicide crimes may be the reason for a higher number of death penalties handed out in
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A federal magistrate has ruled that Ohio’s lethal-injection cocktail is likely an unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment akin to waterboarding, but he is allowing an execution next month to proceed because the condemned didn’t present a viable alternative way to die.Magistrate Michael
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the appeals of 2 convicted Oklahoma County killers who say a study showing racial bias in Oklahoma's use of the death penalty warranted reconsideration of their death sentences.Without comment Monday, the nation's high court rejected the appeals of
In response to President Maithripala Sirisena’s recent comments that the files of convicted drug dealers have been withheld or disappeared from prisons, sabotaging his decision to activate death penalty on them, the Justice and Prison Reforms Ministry today issued a time line on the process it
With crown prince Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, 2018 was a deeply violent and barbaric year for Saudi Arabia, under his de facto leadership.Photo: Deera Square is a public space located in front of the Religious Police building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in which public executions (usually by
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a petition filed by convicted killer Julius Jones, indicating racial bias during his murder trial nearly 20 years ago.Jones, who's on death row, was convicted of killing Edmond businessman Paul Howell in 1999.Jones' best friend, Jimmy Lawson, spoke with
There are nearly 200 cases of Christians in Pakistan charged with blasphemy - the controversial law made famous by Asia Bibi.Father James Channon, director of the Peace Center in Lahore, which promotes inter-faith relations, said research by the Catholic Church had revealed 187 live cases of
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2 Saudi nationals have been executed in the kingdom on charges of murder.Abdullah bin Hajri bin Jabir al-Mu’allad, a Saudi national, was found guilty of stabbing to death another Saudi national, Sultan bin Dhaifallah bin Nawar al-Buqami because of a rift between them, Saudi Press Agency (SPA)
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Claims capital punishment violates state constitutionFort Wayne attorney David Frank filed the suit last week on behalf of Roy Lee Ward, who was sentenced to death in 2001 for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne in Spencer County.The suit, filed in La Porte Superior Court 2, names Gov
The attorney general said the death penalty ruling was violating Islamic law.A husband, who was convicted of stabbing his wife to death over family misunderstandings, has had his death sentence cancelled on appeal.The Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi has ordered the appeal court to have fresh
Sun Kuo-huang (孫國晃) was spared the death sentence yesterday in favor of life imprisonment in the fourth retrial for 2010 murder of a graduate student in Kaohsiung.The Kaohsiung Branch of Taiwan High Court found the 42-year-old Sun guilty of the murder of Chang Chih-tien (張志添), a doctoral student
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Increasing women’s pension age has hit men and women alike.By Trudy Baddams from We Paid In You Pay Out.Men, for many years, could claim Pension Credit at 60.Pension Credit, although means-tested, had no conditionality attached to it; it was there to help those over 60 who were on a low24
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Urging the Texas Supreme Court to allow prison officials to continue hiding the identity of an execution-drug supplier, a lawyer for Texas argued Wednesday that unmasking the pharmacy could endanger the company’s employees and the state’s ability to put prisoners to death.The pharmacy, in an
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Capital punishment would give the Iowa justice system another “tool” to use in prosecuting offenders who kidnap, rape and murder juveniles, according to proponents of reinstating the death penalty after a 54-year absence.“It’s one of the things I ran on in ’96 and I still think it’s an
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Thirty years ago today, one of America's most notorious serial killers, Ted Bundy, was executed at the Florida State Prison. Bundy had spent the previous decade on death row maintaining his innocence; only when his execution became inevitable did he finally confess to the brutal murder of upwards
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Elected officials are not having a collective epiphany about capital punishment, writes John Kiriakou. But for other reasons executions are still going down.Will 2019 be the year that the death penalty is finally abolished? The answer is no. But states, increasingly, are either revoking it
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The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case challenging the legality of one aspect of Missouri’s death penalty statute.Marvin D. Rice, a former deputy sheriff in Dent County, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 for killing his ex-girlfriend, who was the mother
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Northern Irish women must be able to access the care they need at home.Figures published this week by Northern Ireland’s Department of Health have shown that in 2017/18, just 12 abortions were performed in Northern Ireland – the lowest figure on record. In 2007/08, 47 terminations were22
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There is no legal protection for a child who is at risk of undergoing this kind of violence.Female genital mutilation (FGM) is the alteration or removal of a girl’s external genitalia, meaning the labia and the clitoris, for non-medical reasons.This extreme form of violence against women can