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Chinese tycoon gets death penalty

A multi-millionaire Chinese businesswoman, who was awarded capital punishment for a fund-raising fra...

Narcotic Act: Govt to amend death penalty clause

The government is likely to amend the death penalty clause in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Su...

Three given death penalty for burning woman alive

A man, along with his daughter and son, has been awarded death penalty by a Delhi court for burning...

Life or death? Verdict on 31st

India is set to bring alive the capital punishment debate.

Rajoana: M S Gill wants abolition of death penalty

Even as Cong has disapproved of demands for clemency for death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana.

Death penalty for rape, murder of 75-yr-old woman

A court in Haryana on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a 22-year-old youth holding him guilty of ra...

Death penalty for Odisha man

A local court has sentenced a man to death for killing three members of a family at a village in Odi...

SC upholds death penalty of dacoit

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a dacoit who murdered five members of a family i...

Prez Patil most merciful of all Presidents

President Pratibha Patil has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment during ...

Indian faces death penalty for killing fellow countryman

An Indian construction worker here faces death penalty after being charged for murdering his fello...

Mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional: SC

The Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory death penalty for an offender under the Arms Act was un...

Saudi beheads man convicted of murder

Saudi Arabia beheaded a man convicted of murder in the kingdom`s southwest, the interior ministry ...

Death penalty sought for Egypt`s Mubarak

Mubarak is facing charges of ordering the killing of protesters during the demonstrations.

Belarus to abolish death penalty after US: Prez

Belarus is the only European country still with the death penalty. Sentences are carried out by a sh...

Syria imposes death penalty for arming terrorists

The Syrian authorities contend that nine-month-old protests are the work of "armed terrorists".

Eliminate death penalty, says Pope

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to politicians to eliminate capital punishment, saying it is a violation ...

Death penalty "barbaric, anti-life": SC judge

The remarks were made by Justice Ganguly on Monday at a two-day seminar on `Abolition of Death Penal...

Death penalty for Belarusian bombers: Prosecutor

A prosecutor in Belarus is seeking the death penalty for two men accused of carrying out a deadly te...

Pakistan govt urged to abolish death penalty

The HRCP expressed concern that capital punishment remains on the statute books for over 2 dozen off...

No death penalty for economic offenders: Law Min

Law Ministry told a government panel on blackmoney that imposing death penalty on economic offenders...

`Majority of Britons want death penalty restored`

53 percent said they wanted capital punishment back, with 34 percent opposed.

Fort Hood shooting suspect will face death penalty

The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood rampage will be tried in a military court.

Naxals threaten to kill 40 to avenge death penalty

Maoists have threatened to kill 40 people to take revenge for the death penalty awarded last week to...

Bhullar`s wife urges SC to quash his death penalty

Pleading that a mentally imbalanced person should not be executed, the wife of terrorist Devender Pa...

Vietnam: Now lethal injection for death penalty

Vietnam will carry out the death penalty using lethal injection from July instead of a firing squad.

China urges death penalty in deadly food scandals

China`s courts execute more people than combined total of all other nations.

Award death penalty for dishonour killings: SC

SC directed courts to view dishonour killings cases as `rarest of rare` category.

Egypt`s Mubarak could face death penalty: Minister

Hosni Mubarak, his 2 sons and wife are also facing allegations of corruption.

Death penalty for three Saddam-era spies

Iraq`s High Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced to death three Saddam Hussein-era spies convicted...

Mexican brothers face death penalty in Malaysia drugs charge

The three have been ordered to enter their defence at a court on April 27.

Sharjah court waives death penalty for 8 Indians

A Dubai-based Indian hotelier paid blood money to the family of the victim on their behalf.

Illinois governor signs death penalty ban

Illinois will be 4th US state in past 2 years to dispense with death penalty.

Death penalty to six accused in murder case

Sixteen years after the murder of a contractor, a local court has awarded death sentence to six per...

Mercy petitions should be disposed within a year: Top lawyer

Strongly defending the provision of capital punishment, senior advocate K T S Tulsi on Monday term...

Assange vows more leaks, fears death penalty

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed on Tuesday to step up the website`s release of secret US cabl...

Death penalty: UNGA resolution for moratorium

UNGA adopted a resolution to impose a moratorium on the use of death penalty.

Radical Indonesian cleric Bashir could face death penalty

Police charged Abu Bakar Bashir with inciting others to commit terrorist acts.

India votes against resolution on moratorium on death penalty

India voted along with Iran, Saudi Arabia and China in opposing a resolution in the United Nations f...

Death penalty should be given to those killing for dowry: SC

Supreme Court Thursday said that death sentence should be awarded in dowry death and bride burning c...

Kasab spits on webcam, wants to depose personally before court

Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist involved in the 26/11 attacks, Tuesday threw ta...

26/11 case begins, Kasab smiles on screen

Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani terrorist involved in the 26/11 attacks, smiled, yawned ...

Kasab death penalty: Case in High Court Monday

Unprecedented security arrangements have been made at the Bombay High Court where the hearing on the...

US jury to rule on death penalty in horror murder

A Connecticut jury is to hear arguments Monday on whether to execute a man who along with an allege...

Saudi prince could face death penalty over gay claims: Court

A Saudi prince accused of murdering his servant in Britain could face the death penalty in his homel...

World protest urges end to death penalty

Amnesty ranks China as the country that commits the most executions.

No objection to state arguing first on death penalty: Kasab

Convicted Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that he had no obje...

Father of Iranian blogging faces death penalty: Watchdog

Hossein Derakhshan is credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran.

Kasab to appeal next week in HC against death penalty

The lawyers of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab are getting ready to file an appeal in the Bombay Hig...

Japan execution chamber opening could spark debate

Information on the execution process is scarce in Japan.

China may drop death penalty for economic crimes

China executes more people each year than any other country.

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