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Earlier, the court had held all the three-- Chander Sharma, Tajender Singh and Vikrant Bakshi--guilty under Sections 302 , 347 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code.
The district and sessions court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to three persons convicted in the sensational kidnapping and murder of four-year-old Yug Gupta in 2014.
Earlier, the court
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It has not been a good PR week for the police force in Indonesia. Following the arrest of two officers who allegedly beat their junior to death as well as a viral video of a cop behaving badly at a toll gate, the police face another scandal after an officer in Medan was recorded smoking shabu
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“It was clear though that nobody knew about the proposals.”With less than seven weeks to go until the deadline for responses to thegovernment’s consultation on changing the Gender Recognition Act 2004, Fair Play For Women‘s volunteers hit the streets up and down the country last weekend toAn American man was sentenced to death by hanging in Malaysia on Tuesday for murdering his ex-wife, but his lawyer said he was acting in self-defence and would appeal.Gerald Wayne Mickelson, 63, was convicted of strangling Guilda Mickelson in Kuala Lumpur in November 2016, his lawyer K. A. Ramu
SIXTEEN PEOPLE HAVE been executed in the United States this year. Five more are scheduled to be killed during the month of September and another eight more through the end of the year.With each of these killings, more people joined the ranks of a new class of victim — the men and women who carry
The execution sentence was carried out on Monday in the city of AbhaA Saudi national was executed in the kingdom for shooting and killing a man in the region of Asir, the kingdom’s interior ministry announced on Monday.Gibran bin Salem bin Joueid al-Qahtani shot and killed Omar bin Mohammed bin
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Two Malaysian women convicted of attempting to have lesbian sex in a car have been caned in a religious court.The Muslim women, aged 22 and 32, were each caned six times in the Sharia High Court in the state of Terengganu.According to an official, this is the state's first conviction for
Iran Human Rights (August 30, 2018): Two prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges. One of the prisoners was an Afghan citizen.According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, August 29, at least two prisoners were executed at Rajai Shahr Prison. The prisoners
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"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is
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IHR Calls on the International Community to React ImmediatelyIran Human Rights (August 27 2018): Today the three lawyers of Ramin Hossein Panahi, death-row prisoner, reported that he went on a hunger strike and sewed his lips and warned about the risk of him being executed in the next few
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Taipei, Aug. 31 (CNA) Human rights groups on Friday condemned the execution of a death row inmate, alleging it was timed to boost the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) chances in the nine-in-one local government elections on Nov. 24.Lee Hung-chi (李宏基), who was sentenced to death in 2016
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Taiwan executed a death-row inmate on Friday, the 1st execution carried out under President Tsai Ing-wen's government and despite ongoing calls from rights groups to abolish the death penalty.Lee Hung-chi was executed at a jail in southern Kaohsiung city Friday afternoon by firing squad
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against prominent Islamist preacher Salman al-Awdah on terrorism-related charges, activists and his family said on Tuesday.The 37 charges against the 61-year-old cleric in the Specialized Criminal Court include
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Lawmakers in the Malaysian state of Pahang are considering legalising the caning of gay people.Two women in the northeastern state of Terengganu received six lashings each on Monday for having gay sex.The sentence was handed down last month after the women, who are 32 and 22, pleaded guilty to
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KOTA KINABALU: A car service adviser who claimed that ketamine was planted in his luggage without his knowledge at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) in 2015 has failed in his appeal against his death sentence for drug trafficking.The Court of Appeal’s five-member bench upheld the
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‘Keeping quiet was easier than complaining’ and ‘nothing would be done if they did complain’.Police chiefs have pledged to act over high levels of sexual harassment among police staff working for police forces in England and Wales which were set out in a combined report published last month byWASHINGTON — Most Supreme Court appointments are in a way inconsequential. A conservative replaces a conservative, a liberal replaces a liberal, and the court’s basic direction is unchanged.That is not the case with the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, whose Senate confirmation hearings
The parents of Filipina death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to allow their daughter to testify against her alleged recruiters from her jail cell in Indonesia.In a petition filed Monday, Cesar and Celia Veloso requested the SC to nullify the Court of Appeals' (CA)
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Iran Human Rights (August 30, 2018): According to reports confirmed by Iran Human Rights (IHR), the Iranian lawyer Mohammad Najafi has been sentenced to three years in prison and 74 lashes. Ten other civil activists have also been sentenced to prison and lashes.According to a close source, during
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Taipei, Aug. 31 (CNA) Human rights groups on Friday condemned the execution of a death row inmate, alleging it was timed to boost the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) chances in the nine-in-one local government elections on Nov. 24.Lee Hung-chi (李宏基), who was sentenced to death in 2016
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Julius Jones is on death row in Oklahoma, despite compelling evidence that he was wrongfully convicted and continues to maintain his innocence. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals could set an execution date in the next 12 months. Mr. Jones’ co-defendant, the key witness against him, fit an
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired in July after 3 decades on the court.In a Pew Research Center survey just after Kavanaugh's
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The four men in Tennessee cited the lethal injection of Billy Ray Irick, who appeared to suffer during his August executionIn the minutes before his execution, Billy Ray Irick knew two things: He was suffocating and he was involuntarily paralyzed, according to court documents, a fate that four
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The editor is going off-line for a few days.
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Iran Human Rights (Sep 3, 2018): Three prisoners were executed at Zahedan Central Prison on the charge of “Moharebeh and armed conflict”. Moharebeh means waging war against God. According to a close source, on the morning of Monday, September 3, three prisoners were executed at Zahedan Central
Part of a Hong Kong high-speed railway station formally came under Chinese jurisdiction on Tuesday, an unprecedented move that has raised concerns about the Chinese-ruled territory's promised autonomyHong Kong, China – Part of a Hong Kong high-speed railway station formally came under Chinese
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Those needing an abortion after being raped could face a longer prison sentence than their attacker.Alliance for Choice launched a social media campaign last week asking people in Northern Ireland to write to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mordaunt, urging her to support abortion03
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A mentally ill Mexican national with claims of brain damage is set for execution in November, more than two decades after he was convicted of killing his wife and two youngest children near the southern border.Robert Moreno Ramos is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 14, according to
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Robert Boyd Rhoades kidnapped eight-year-old Michael Lyons while he was walking home from school in 1996, stabbed him up to 80 times with a fishing knife and kept him alive for nearly 10 agonizing hours before dumping his body in the Feather River, just up the street from the child’s home.The
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Ed Zwick's fact-based drama stars Jack O'Connell as a Texas death row inmate and Laura Dern as his compassionate pen pal.While it’s reasonably convincing in arguing that a miscarriage of justice took place when Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for killing his three little children just before
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Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the indictment of former state trooper George Martin will be reinstated and that he will be retried for the 1995 capital murder of his wife in Mobile County. The Alabama Supreme Court today reversed lower court rulings that had dismissed the
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Human beings insist on being social creatures, no matter how much you indoctrinate or denigrate them.This article was published in collaboration with the Marshall Project. Sign up for their newsletter.All of us condemned inmates were hurt when Chaplain Chestnut left the prison to pursue other
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John Lotter took his latest shot at getting off death row Thursday when his lawyer attacked the constitutionality of Nebraska's capital sentencing law.Sentenced to die for the 1993 triple-homicide that inspired the film "Boys Don't Cry," Lotter has filed multiple unsuccessful appeals and
Mohali, August 28 - The CBI court here on Tuesday awarded death penalty to Khushwinder Singh (45), who had murdered four members of a Fatehgarh Sahib family 14 years ago.Khushwinder, a resident of Suhavi village in Fatehgarh Sahib district, had pushed Kulwant Singh (45), latter’s wife Harjit Kaur