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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicDeath penalty

Topic: Death penalty

SC allows post-conviction mental illness to be a factor in deciding death penalty appeals

Supreme Court lays down guidelines, says such convicts 'cannot be ignored and left to rot away', they require care and treatment.

Convicts of gruesome crimes deserve punishment, not death

There is little evidence to prove that countries which have abolished the death penalty have a greater incidence of crime than those that have retained it.

Isn’t 20 years enough to reform? Tandoor case convict’s release provides the answer

Sushil Kumar Sharma served 23 years in prison after he killed his wife and attempted to dispose of her body by putting it in a tandoor.

What is the greatest challenge to the future of human rights? We the people are

The thing most likely to stall human rights progress is people around the world simply not considering them to be important

Pakistan executes 6-year-old Zainab’s murderer Imran Ali in presence of her father

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan navy commissions indigenously-built warship PNS Moawin, and woman car mechanic breaking gender stereotypes.

The problem with the instant justice courts of Madhya Pradesh

In a bid to ensure speedy justice and tackle pendency of cases, states are coming up with quack remedies.

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.

Uttarakhand CM promises bill on death penalty for child rapists in next assembly session

MP, Rajasthan and Haryana have already approved the provision of capital punishment for those who rape girls aged 12 or less.

Death penalty is nothing more than political execution, Nirbhaya case isn’t different

The timing of execution is handpicked and more often than not suits the political narrative of the times.

Supreme Court dismisses petitions seeking review of death penalty for December 2012 rapist-killers

Three of four living adult convicts had petitioned the court after it upheld their death sentence last year.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.