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SC bench differs on death plea: What next for Yakub Memon?

A three-judge bench on Tuesday was set up in the Supreme Court to decide the fate of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in 1993 Mumbai blasts case, after a two-judge bench was divided on his plea seeking stay of his execution scheduled on July 30. Senior Lawyer Justice Hegde, Senior Journalist N Ram, former top police official YC Pawar and Legal Editor of CNN-IBN Ashok Bagriya speaks on the issue.
July 28, 2015, 11:58 pm explore: India

Libyan court gives death sentence to Gaddafi son Saif al-Islam

A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, on Tuesday for suppressing peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.
July 28, 2015, 3:28 pm explore: World

True Urdu translation of my speech has not been understood by each and everyone, says Asaduddin Owaisi

"If you are giving death sentence, give it to all, don't target religion" All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi said in a speech referring to terrorist Yakub Memon's death sentence.
July 25, 2015, 6:17 pm explore: India

1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's plea for quashing of death warrant to be heard in SC on Monday

His petition says a death warrant was issued against him even before he could exhaust his last legal remedy - a curative petition which was dismissed on July 21.
July 25, 2015, 9:11 am explore: India

Yakub Memon must not be hanged, feels former RAW official

B Raman, who coordinated the operation to bring back Yakub Memon from Karachi in 1994, wrote an article in 2007 saying he must not be hanged.
July 24, 2015, 10:12 am explore: India

1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's plea rejected by Supreme Court, to be executed on July 30

Yakub was sentenced to death by a designated TADA court in 2007, after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy.
Ashok Bagriya, July 21, 2015, 4:40 pm explore: India

3 Taliban terrorists get death penalty for NATO trucks attack

Three Taliban terrorists have been given an eight-time death sentence for attacking trucks carrying critical supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan in 2010.
July 1, 2015, 2:30 pm explore: World

Uttar Pradesh: Woman, lover sent to gallows for killing husband

A court in Kannauj sent a woman along with her paramour to gallows for killing her husband about seven years ago.
May 31, 2015, 6:25 pm explore: India

Right to life does not end with confirmation of death sentence: SC

The SC said that the basis to the right to dignity also extends to the death row convicts.
May 28, 2015, 9:54 am explore: India

Pakistan executes 4 convicts for involvement in attack on ex-President General Pervez Musharraf

There are at least 522 criminals sentenced to death in terror and other cases related to serious crimes in the country.
December 21, 2014, 5:47 pm explore: India

Egypt court sentences 188 to death for killing police

Eleven policemen and two pedestrians were killed in the incident.
December 3, 2014, 10:28 am explore: India

Indian fishermen released: Sri Lanka says it's a pardon but not a reduction of sentence

Sri Lankan Minister Senthil Thondaman said, "PM Modi spoke to President Rajapaksa and the latter decided to pardon the five Indian fishermen facing death sentence. It if for the Lankan President to say whether it's a fallout of conversation with PM Modi or not. We don't call it a pardon for Indian fishermen, we call it reduction of sentence."
November 19, 2014, 8:46 pm explore: India

Sri Lanka releases 5 Indian fishermen facing death sentence after President Rajapaksa grants pardon

The case dates back to 2011 when the fishermen set out to fish from Rameswaram and were apprehended by the Lankan Navy on the charge of possessing narcotics.
Anna Isaac, November 19, 2014, 4:48 pm explore: India

Bangladeshi fugitive war criminal tribunal sentenced to death

Khokon, 70, is the fourth war crimes convict to be handed down the capital punishment after a trial in absentia, while two war crimes tribunals have so far delivered verdicts after trial of 12 people, sentencing 9 of them to death since 2010.
November 13, 2014, 2:28 pm explore: India

Tamil Nadu fishermen announce indefinite strike, want Centre to ensure release of 5 Indians from Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan court gave death sentence to five Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu in alleged drug case.
Anna Isaac, October 31, 2014, 2:48 pm explore: India

Bangladesh apex court commutes 1971 war criminal JeI leader's death penalty

Bangladesh SC commuted the death sentence of Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a key 1971 war criminal and fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader.
September 17, 2014, 3:28 pm explore: India

Death row debate: Should a mature democracy abolish capital punishment?

The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Noida's Nithari killings convict Surinder Koli for one week. The Meerut jail authorities say they received the order from the apex court through the District Magistrate.
Bhupendra Chaubey, September 8, 2014, 10:11 pm explore: India

Noida's Nithari killings: SC stays execution of convict Surinder Koli for a week

Sources say that earlier Koli was to be hanged in Meerut on Monday.
Ashok Bagriya, September 8, 2014, 8:39 am explore: India

Nithari killer Surinder Koli kept in high security Meerut jail

Nithari serial killer Surendra Koli will be hanged in Meerut on September 12.
September 5, 2014, 6:33 pm explore: India

Noida Nithari killings: Court issues death warrant against Surinder Koli

The court has sent the warrant to the Uttar Pradesh government for making necessary preparations for Koli's execution.
September 4, 2014, 7:55 am explore: India

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