New Delhi : Death penalty for rapists, lynching of convicts in public and castration of those convicted were among demands made in Rajya Sabha on Monday as MPs expressed outrage over the Hyderabad rape and murder case and other such incidents in the country. Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu rejected adjournment motions on the gang-rape and […]

New Delhi : Indian Government has put on hold the execution of a prisoner, sentenced to death for his role in the 1995 murder of Punjab state’s Chief Minister Beant Singh. Balwant Singh Rajoana’s hanging, which had been set for Saturday, was postponed after a mercy petition to the president, the Home Ministry said. Several […]

Singapore: A 36-year-old Indian man was on Wednesday sentenced to death by Singapore court for murdering his Filipina girlfriend in 2010. Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Gopinathan was convicted of the murder of Roselyn Reyes Pascua and given the mandatory death penalty, the Straits Times reported. Pascua, 30, was found in her room at Peony Mansion, Bencoolen […]

New Delhi : President Pratibha Patil, it seems, has been the most merciful of all presidents during the last three decades as she has commuted death sentences of 23 petitioners to life imprisonment during her tenure, which is over 90 per cent of the total pardon granted since 1981.  On February 9, she accepted the […]

Mangalore: Amnesty International is making all efforts to abolish the death penalty in a non-violent Gandhian India and commute such a sentence of hanging to death, in to a life long imprisonment committed to remorse and development of a better personality even in a jail. AI secretary general Salil Shetty informed media on Tuesday that […]