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TopicDeath penalty

Topic: Death penalty

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.

The rapists should be burnt alive, writes Jyoti Singh’s mother for ThePrint

Police fight for the victim in court, but beyond that, all the support is for the accused. The fight of the victim is the victim’s alone.

Supreme Court to decide on death penalty in 2012 Delhi gangrape case today

Four of the six men who raped and tortured a 23-year-old paramedic student, have appealed against the death penalty.

Victim impact statements can achieve what death penalty can’t

India’s criminal justice system needs to look at victim impact statements in the US to help victims achieve closure.

Registry of sex offenders carries immense risks. It also puts the survivor in mortal danger

Privacy is a basic human right, and even criminals have those. To undermine this capacity because vicious, punitive justice sells on primetime TV debates is to tear through the foundation that this country.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?