Faults them for shooting without warning, recommends a compensation of Rs 50 lakh to kin of the deceased, including Rs 20 lakh already paid
Since 2017, four people have been executed in India
Gujarat has seen a sharp rise in trial courts giving captial punishment with 50 people being sentenced to death this year till August compared to 46 between 2006 and 2021, as per data available with courts in the state. In February 2022, a special court had sentenced to death 38 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blast case, sharply pushing up the number of people getting capital punishment by trial courts in the state this year. Fifty six people were killed and more than 200 injured in a series of blasts that ripped Ahmedabad in 2008. Besides this case, the trial courts in different cities also sentenced convicts to death in cases of rape and murder of minors, registered under the Protection of Children for Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Only in one of these cases, at a court in Kheda town, the accused was sentenced to death where a minor a raped and not killed. Besides, in two cases of 'honour killing' also the accused were given capital punishment. Apart from 13 convicts gett
The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a five-judge Constitution bench a suo motu plea on framing of guidelines on how and when potential mitigating circumstances be considered by courts during trial in cases which entail the death penalty as the maximum punishment. A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit said it was of the opinion that this matter required a hearing by a larger bench to have clarity and uniform approach as to when an accused, facing death penalty as maximum sentence, is required to be heard with regard to mitigating circumstances. Let matter be placed before the CJI for orders in this regard, Justice S Ravindra Bhat said while pronouncing the verdict. A death sentence is irreversible and every opportunity should be given to the accused for consideration of mitigating circumstances so that the court concludes that capital punishment is not warranted, the bench had observed while reserving its verdict on August 17. The top court had taken note of the issue
Raising an alarm over the rights situation in Myanmar, Amnesty International has said the death penalty increased at an alarming rate under military rule
The bench indicated that it would lay down guidelines to be followed by courts across the country in connection with cases involving death sentences
Japan on Tuesday executed three people who were on death row, marking the first time the death penalty was carried out under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, Kyodo news agency reported.The three were identified as Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, who killed seven of his relatives in Hyogo Prefecture in 2004, and Tomoaki Takanezawa, 54, and Mitsunori Onogawa, 44, who were convicted of killing two pachinko parlour employees in Gunma Prefecture in 2003, as per the media outlet.The last execution in Japan was on December 26, 2019, Kyodo reported.
Amid growing violence in Myanmar following the February 1 coup, the ruling military imposed a death penalty as a possible punishment for treason, dissent, and other offenses against the government
Alawwad said that recent decisions reflect how Saudi Arabia is working towards "realising its critical human rights reforms"
Sixteen convicts have been executed in the country in the past three decades, including Yakub Memon, Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab.
The plea claimed that there is further new evidence which shows that the state has concealed certain facts in the case from the court
SC questions issuance of death warrants by trial courts before expiry of time period for appeal
India has carried out four executions since 2004, the last having been in 2015
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said that after the apex court dismissed in 2017 the appeals of the four convicts
The guidelines were laid down in Shatrughan Chauhan versus Union of India case in 2014
President Ram Nath Kovind had rejected the mercy petition of Mukesh on January 17
A Delhi court has issued a fresh death warrant against the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case, who will be executed on February 1 at 6 am.
The petition has been filed by convict Mukesh Kumar whose mercy plea was dismissed by President Ram Nath Kovind on January 17
The public prosecutor, appearing for the Delhi Police, told the court that Tihar jail authorities have supplied all the relevant documents sought by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the case
A bench comprising Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bushan and A S Bopanna dismissed the plea of convict Pawan Kumar Gupta and upheld the Delhi High Court verdict.