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The high court upheld the February 19 order of the Mahila court, awarding death penalty to S Dhasvanth, an engineering graduate.
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a 23-year-old techie by a lower court for the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl here in 2017.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn Tuesday after eight inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death by the state’s new execution method: inhaling nitrogen gas.The Alabama attorney general’s office and lawyers for inmates submitted a
US President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a bruising confirmation battle.In a primetime announcement at the White House, Mr Trump praised his pick as a "brilliant jurist".The nominee, a District of Columbia appeals court judge, is a
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Scott Dozier's final 48 hours will be tightly controlled, much like the last decade of his life. They will include limited time on the prison yard, his final shower and, of course, his last meal.Each of his steps will be followed by a team of prison officers, some of whom will record the steps
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"So many legal questions"Opponents of the death penalty fear the next month will become a "media circus" as the state prepares for its first execution in over 2 decades.On Thursday, the Nebraska Supreme Court set Aug. 14 as the execution date for condemned killer Carey Dean Moore, the
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Letters sent from prison by some of the executed AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult members expressed regret for committing heinous crimes and a wish to atone.But their letters sent to civic groups also included those calling for abolition of capital punishment and requests for amnesty, showing their
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The Catholic Church is calling on the Mia Mottley-led Government to abolish the death penalty, arguing it is not justified under any circumstance.In a statement of support for a ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), which declared the mandatory death sentence for a conviction of murder
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TOKYO - While the execution of Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara and six of the group's former senior members may have drawn the curtain on a string of crimes that shocked Japan, it opens the door for society to engage in further debate about the death penalty.At a time when the global
The Nebraska Supreme Court set an execution date Thursday for the state's longest-serving inmate, a crucial step needed to carry out Nebraska's 1st execution in 21 years.The court issued a death warrant for Carey Dean Moore, who has spent nearly 4 decades on death row for the 1979 shootings
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While the nation focuses on whether the Supreme Court will take a conservative turn following Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, Breyer is maintaining his effort to scale back or end the death penalty.Justice Stephen Breyer hasn’t given up on working to convince his colleagues — or America —
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TOKYO - Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara, who was convicted of numerous murders including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, was executed Friday along with six former senior members of the cult, the Justice Ministry said.Asahara, 63, whose real name was Chizuo
LAS VEGAS – One sedative will be substituted for another, and prison officials said Tuesday they plan to use two other drugs never before used in executions in any state for Nevada’s first lethal injection in 12 years. The drugs include a powerful synthetic opioid that has been blamed for
The Sri Lanka govt approves capital punishment for drug offencesColombo, Jul 11 (PTI) The Sri Lankan Cabinet has unanimously approved a move to bring back capital punishment for drug-related crimes, a senior minister has said.Gamini Jayawickrema Perera, Minister of the Buddhist Order said that
TOKYO - The body of executed Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara was cremated in Tokyo on Monday and his remains will likely be kept at a detention house in the capital for some time as it remains undecided to whom they will be handed over, sources familiar with the matter said.Who will gain
Top court pronounced its judgement on the review petition filed by 3 out of the 4 convicts handed death penalty.India's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence in the 2012 New Delhi bus gang-rape case, a crime that sparked widespread protests leading to stronger anti-rape laws.The country's
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Death penalty supporters and opponents both say that Kentucky's capital punishment system is too expensive, lengthy and in need of reform.Kentucky has had a moratorium on the death penalty since 2010, but state prosecutors still pursue capital punishment in more than 50 cases every year.During a
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Iran Human Rights (Jul 5, 2018): According to the Iranian state media, Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi, announced that cases of 1700 of the prisoners sentenced to death or life imprisonment for drug-related crimes in Tehran have been reviewed, while there are 1300 more requests
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The trial in the case was completed within 46 days in a local court in Rehli block and the accused convicted for the crime. The police investigation into the case too was completed in just 72 hours.In a significant development, a man who was accused of raping a 9-year-old girl in Sagar district
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Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara, who was convicted of numerous murders including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, was executed Friday [July 6, 2018] along with six former senior members of the cult, the Justice Ministry said.Asahara, 63, whose real name was Chizuo
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A Japanese court sentenced the former head of a parents' group at an elementary school near Tokyo to life in prison on Friday over the 2017 murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl who attended the school.While Yasumasa Shibuya, 47, has denied involvement in the death of Le Thi Nhat Linh, the Chiba
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - An Orange County jury decided to spare a man from the death sentence for beating his five-year-old son to death.Darrell Avant Sr. was convicted last week of killing Darell Avant, Jr. after the boy got in trouble at school. Avant Sr. will spend the rest of his life in prison
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As an execution date looms, a lawsuit over drugs used in previous ‘botched’ executions heads to trialUnless the governor or a court order says otherwise, the state of Tennessee will execute Billy Ray Irick next month. Shortly after 7 p.m. on Aug. 9, an execution team at Riverbend Maximum Security
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In his statement vetoing SB 593 to repeal the death penalty, Gov. Chris Sununu argued that the death penalty delivers justice for crime victims, protects the law enforcement community and is needed to send a message to those who commit "the most heinous offenses" within our borders.I would like
LAS VEGAS — A twice-convicted killer scheduled to be executed Wednesday night in Nevada by an untried three-drug lethal injection is steadfast in his desire to be put to death, but a final-hour lawsuit by a drug company could halt the execution.Pharmaceutical companies have resisted the use of
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"The problem is the desperation to get out, and the willingness of the district attorney to use us."For the last 2 decades, Curtis Flowers has been on death row in Mississippi for a 1996 quadruple murder. He has consistently maintained his innocence and appealed his case 6 different times on
More than a decade ago, Ismail Saleh says, a neighbor wanted to marry one of Saleh's cousins. Following the custom of their clan in northern Iraq, she was meant to wed Saleh, so the family refused. And thus, he says, a feud was born.Saleh now sits on death row in Baghdad, sentenced to hang after
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Debate on capital punishment has been re-ignited and is now an election issue after a number of brutal murders occurred over the past 2 monthsWhether or not the Taiwanese authorities should execute those who are sentenced to death has been hotly debated over the past couple of months, due partly
8 prisoners who were sentenced to death over the Isis attacks on Tehran's parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini were executed today. Some of them were not directly involved in the attacks.According to IRNA news agency, on the morning of Saturday, July 7, eight prisoners who
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Cult's founder and 6 others involved in 1995 sarin gas attack in TokyoThe Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed regret Friday over Japan's executions of AUM Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara and 6 other former members of the cult, calling for a national debate on the death
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A sedative that Nevada prison officials plan to use next week for the 1st lethal injection in the state since 2006 has been blamed for problems during executions in recent years in several other states.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the drug, midazolam, can be used in lethal
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Japan and the United States are the only two members of the Group of Seven advanced economies that have the death penalty.Japanese death row inmates are executed by hanging. Three prison officers simultaneously press buttons to open the trap door so it is not clear which one is
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. - An Ohio man pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Thursday in a deadly car attack on a crowd of protesters opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia.James Alex Fields Jr. entered the plea during his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in
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Claude Lanzmann, the journalist and film director whose obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a groundbreaking film that relived the annihilation of Jews through the memories of witnesses, died on Thursday in Paris. He was 92.His publisher, Gallimard, confirmed his death, at the
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The death of 9-year-old Vietnamese girl Le Thi Nhat Linh in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo and the trial of the former head of a parents' association at her school charged with her murder has gained attention in her homeland.Vu Duc Cuong, 35, the Tokyo representative office of national