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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
TopicCapital punishment

Topic: capital punishment

As SC looks at lethal injections vs death by hanging debate, how other countries execute convicts

The petition dates back to 2017, but still awaits an outcome. In 2018, the Centre opposed abolishing death by hanging for convicts, saying it wasn’t ‘practically feasible’.

Hanging to lethal injection—how India executes death row convicts, what a new plea demands

Lethal injection is an active form of euthanasia, where drugs are administered to cause death. It is administered in a specific order.

RG Kar case falls in ‘rarest of rare’ doctrine. Sanjay Roy deserves death penalty

Post Nirbhaya case, the existing laws were altered and policy was made stringent. The facts of the case squarely fall under the prevailing norms and thus capital punishment is what the accused deserves.

Why Kerala court called Sharon Raj murder case rarest of rare & sentenced girlfriend Greeshma to death

According to the prosecution, the convict poisoned Sharon Raj, 23, after he refused to end their relationship when her family fixed her marriage with an Army officer.

Sharon Raj murder: Kerala court hands death sentence to accused girlfriend Greeshma

She was held guilty of poisoning her boyfriend with a pesticide-laced ayurvedic concoction in October 2022

Alabama executes man using nitrogen gas, first new execution method in US

Kenneth Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, is the first to be executed using a new method of capital punishment since lethal injections began in the US four decades ago.

UP woman who axed family to death likely to become India’s first female to be executed

Shabnam and her lover Saleem have been convicted of killing seven members of her family, including her 10-month old nephew.

Consider making death penalty a punishment for corruption, Madras HC tells Centre

Madras High Court says corruption is deep-rooted, has spread like cancer, and, therefore, the punishment needs to be made more stringent.

For these 6 men on death row, freedom has been a 15-year-long wait

In an unprecedented judgment, the SC has set free six men accused of murder and rape in Nashik but not before they spent nearly two decades in prison.

It’s been 10 years, but India still doesn’t want to replace hanging with lethal injection

A decade after looking at options to replace death by hanging with a 'more humane' way, ministry says no such proposal being examined.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Kerala’s silent startup surge—work near home, smooth roads, fast internet & diaspora engagement

Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.

India & Israel ink agreement to share, co-develop & co-produce advanced defence tech

Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday. 

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.