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Satya Prakash, Hindustan Times New Delhi, January 22, 2014 The Supreme Court has once again restricted the scope of death penalty in the country. This time by commuting the capital punishment of 15 murder convicts on the ground of inordinate delay… Continue Reading →
DPA AP Federal public defender Allen Bohnert talks about the execution of his client, death row inmate Dennis McGuire, by a never-tried lethal drug process, on Jan. 16, 2014 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. AP This undated file… Continue Reading →
Vol – XLIX No. 3, January 18, 2014 | Arvind Narrain The judgment in the 16 December Delhi rape case imposed the death penalty based upon the depravity of the offence and the demands of the “collective conscience of society”. On the… Continue Reading →
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) An Appeal for Funds The issue of Death Penalty and executions has entered a critical phase in India. While the executions had been more or less on hold for the past two decades, the… Continue Reading →
Marcia G. Yerman Writer on women’s issues, human rights, environment and culture In 2011 I wrote a story covering a demonstration to protest the impending execution of SikhProfessor Devinderpal Singh Bhullar in India. Bhullar’s mercy petition, filed in 2003, languished for eight years… Continue Reading →
Posters across India call for gay people to face death penalty Far-right Muslim group calls for anyone who supports LGBTI people, ‘homosexual terror mongers’, to be jailed for life 30 December 2013 | By Joe Morgan, Omar Kuddus, Gay star… Continue Reading →
New Delhi , BS December 23, 2013 Last Updated at 16:55 IST Stating that the death penalty was “uncivilised”, National Commission for Minorities Chairperson, Wajahat Habibullah, has said that the law should not succumb to public opinion as such a situation would be… Continue Reading →
Divya Iyer, DNA Hang the rapists”, screamed some of the signs at the protests that followed the rape and murder last December in Delhi. Others went further, calling for castration, torture and public beheadings. Implicit in these demands was the… Continue Reading →
S. VIJAY KUMAR, The Hindu The HinduFormer CBI director D.R. Kaarthikeyan. File photo: G. Moorthy Former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation D.R. Kaarthikeyan has called for a special session of Parliament to debate whether India should abolish death… Continue Reading →
Zeenews : Monday, November 11, 2013, 23:58 New Delhi: Opposing death sentence, former Governor Gopalkrishan Gandhi on Monday demanded that government appoint a high-level commission comprising former Chief Justices and eminent personalities outside law to examine its utility as a… Continue Reading →