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- India
Yasin Malik death penalty plea: HC judge recuses himself
New Delhi: Delhi High Court judge Amit Sharma on Thursday recused himself from hearing a plea by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) seeking the death penalty for separatist leader Yasin Malik in…
- World
Global use of death penalty at highest level since 2015: Amnesty
Berlin: The use of the death penalty has reached its highest level worldwide since 2015, London-based human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Some 1,153 people were executed in 2023 across…
- Telangana
Telangana: Man gets death penalty in 9 yr old boy’s kidnap, murder case
Hyderabad: A court in Mahabubabad district on Friday sentenced a 22-year-old man to death for kidnapping a nine-year-old boy for ransom and murdering him in October 2020. The district sessions court judge…
- India
SC stays execution of death penalty in rape-cum-murder case of minor
New Delhi: In a relief to a death row convict, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a watchman who was convicted of killing a minor girl after sexually assaulting her…
- Pakistan
Six awarded death penalty for mob lynching of Sri Lankan citizen in Pakistan
Lahore: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore announced the verdict in the mob lynching of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara on false allegations of blasphemy in Sialkot last December, awarding death penalty to…
- India
Man gets death for minor’s rape and murder in Rajasthan
Jaipur: A POCSO court in Rajasthan has awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing a four-year-old girl, police officials said here on Friday. Special Court of POCSO cases, Judge Sandeep…