Sudan: Young woman sentenced to death by stoning

Sudan: Young woman sentenced to death by stoning Khartoum: A Sudanese woman, believed to be around 20, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, and is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son, rights groups and lawyers said on Thursday. Campaigners condemned the ruling, saying it violated international standards and raised concerns that Sudan might start applying sharia, or Islamic law, more strictly following the secession of mostly non-Muslim South Sudan...
09:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Sarabjit's sister hopeful of relief from Zardari

Sarabjit's sister hopeful of relief from Zardari Jaipur: Sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in Pakistan following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, on Friday said she will appeal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during his Rajasthan visit to release his brother on humanitarian ground. Dalbir Kaur said she will try to meet Zardari during his private visit to Ajmer dargah on April 8. "Mercy petition of my brother is pending...
12:09 AM, Apr 07, 2012

B'lore: Cyanide Mallika sentenced to death

B'lore: Cyanide Mallika sentenced to death Bangalore: Woman serial killer Mallika alias Cyanide Mallika, 45, was awarded death sentence by the First Additional Rural Court in Bangalore on Friday in connection with a murder. Mallika has been given death sentence for the second time. Mallika, who was arrested by Kalasipalya police at Kaggalipura on December 18, 2007, was charged of killing Nagaveni, 35, of Allalasandra in Yelahanka. Mallika used to loiter around temples and female devotees...
03:43 PM, Mar 31, 2012
India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

India @ 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai

The Centre stays execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana after the Akali government appealed for clemency. ...
11:15 PM, Mar 28, 2012
News 360: Centre stays hanging of Beant's co-assassin Rajoana

News 360: Centre stays hanging of Beant's co-assassin Rajoana

Centre stays hanging of Beant Singh's co-assassin, Balwant Singh Rajoana, until the Supreme Court decides on his petition. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Clemency politics prevails, execution of Rajoana stayed

Clemency politics prevails, execution of Rajoana stayed

The Centre on Wednesday stayed hanging of Beant Singh's co-assassin Balwant singh Rajoana. ...
08:45 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Beant Singh killing: Punjab on alert before Rajoana's hanging

Beant Singh killing: Punjab on alert before Rajoana's hanging

The government asked 15 paramilitary companies to be deployed ahead of Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging on March 31. ...
02:52 PM, Mar 27, 2012

Pune rape-murder case: two convicts get death

Pune rape-murder case: two convicts get death Pune: The two convicts in the Pune BPO employee rape-cum-murder case, Purshottam Borate and Pradip Kokate, have been sentenced to death. The court called it a rarest of the rare cases, saying it was 'premeditated' and 'heinous'. The two were pronounced guilty on Saturday by a Pune court. Twenty two-year-old Jyotikumari Chaudhary was raped and killed in November 2007. Her body was found at Wadgaon, off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, on...
01:43 PM, Mar 20, 2012

Pratibha Patil most merciful President in 30 yrs

Pratibha Patil most merciful President in 30 yrs New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil seems to be the most merciful of all presidents during the last three decades. She has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment, which is over 90 per cent of the total pardons granted since 1981. On February 9, she accepted the clemency petition of Sushil Murmu, pending since 2004, who was convicted for giving 'bali' (sacrifice) of a nine-year-old-boy in Jharkhand for...
09:32 AM, Feb 22, 2012

Kasab's rights not violated: Maha govt to SC

Kasab's rights not violated: Maha govt to SC New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday opposed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Ajmal Kasab's plea for leniency in the Supreme Court. Placing arguments in the court, the Maharashtra government said, "Kasab's rights have not been violated." The Maharashtra government also said that death was a permissible means of punishment. It also claimed that his latest request was a conspiracy. "Kasab has been dealt with as fairly as possible. He...
12:52 PM, Feb 15, 2012

HC verdict in 2003 Mumbai twin blasts likely

HC verdict in 2003 Mumbai twin blasts likely Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Friday its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12, 2011 reserved its judgement in the case. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were...
02:52 PM, Feb 10, 2012

Rajiv killers' pleas adjourned till March 27

Rajiv killers' pleas adjourned till March 27 Chennai: The Madras High Court adjourned till March 27 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentences, while the Tamil Nadu government filed an additional affidavit in support of their pleas. The court had on August 30 last year stayed the death sentence of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This trio...
11:06 AM, Jan 31, 2012

Iran imposes death sentence on US man for spying

Iran imposes death sentence on US man for spying Tehran: A former US Marine interpreter arrested while on a trip to visit his Iranian grandmothers has been sentenced to death as a CIA spy, state radio reported on Monday, in a case likely to become a new flashpoint in the escalating tensions between Tehran's defiance over its nuclear program and Washington's efforts to impose more crippling sanctions. It was the first time an American citizen has been sentenced to...
08:57 AM, Jan 10, 2012

Supreme Court to hear Bhullar's mercy plea today

Supreme Court to hear Bhullar's mercy plea today New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
Death penalty only in extreme cases: Kalam

Death penalty only in extreme cases: Kalam

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam said that the death penalty should be abolished. ...
03:52 PM, Oct 10, 2011
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