According to a new report by Reprieve, a U.K. human rights group, the death rate in Saudi Arabia doubled during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s first eight months in power. Reprieve said that the number of people executed have doubled. There were 133 executions in the kingdom between June 2017 and March 2018,[Read More…]
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Death for Rapists: The new law even with some anomalies is not lousy legislation
Some laws in the making have no prejudices, ideological differences or disagreements. These bills of legislation not only ought to be passed but passed in one voice. On 6 August 2018, the Indian Parliament finally gave its overwhelming support and clearance to the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 which goes[Read More…]
Supreme Court upholds death penalty to 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape convicts
The Supreme Court on Monday, 9 July announced death penalty to the convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. Three of the four adult convicts, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, had filed review petitions seeking reduction of the death sentence to life imprisonment. A three-judge bench comprising[Read More…]
Why death penalty for child rape doesn’t mean swifter, better justice
Mumbai: About 90 per cent of child rape cases were pending trial in India in 2016, no more than 28 per cent of such cases ended in conviction, and there is a 20-year backlog in bringing cases to trial, the latest available national crime data show. These data indicate the[Read More…]
President approves ordinance on death penalty to child rapists
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday approved an ordinance to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping a child below the age of 12. The Union Cabinet had on Saturday cleared an ordinance that seeks to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act by including[Read More…]
DCW chief asks MPs to support death penalty for child rapists
New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Friday wrote to all MPs, seeking support for her demand on the death penalty to child rapists within six months. According to DCW, Maliwal has requested them to join and support the movement – and raise the matter in the[Read More…]
Harish Salve charged Re 1 to fight Jadhav’s case at ICJ: Sushma Swaraj
Noted advocate Harish Salve, who fought India’s case at the International Court of Justice against the death penalty provided to Kulbhushan Jadhav by Pakistan, has charged Re 1 as fee, informed external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj in a tweet. Swaraj’s tweet came in response to a tweet by one Sanjeev[Read More…]
SC dismisses plea seeking death penalty for Govindachami in Soumya murder case
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the curative petition filed by the Kerala government which sought the reinstatement of the death penalty on Govindachami, the man who was convicted of raping 23-year-old Soumya in 2011. Responding to the verdict, Soumya’s mother told media that Govindachami’s death would alone invite justice[Read More…]
MP govt set to bring in law to award death penalty to rapists
Madhya Pradesh government will bring in law for awarding death penalty to rapists in the forthcoming monsoon session said, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday. Chouhan said, MP government will propose a bill in the monsoon session of the assembly in which there will be a provision for death[Read More…]