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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Pak SC | Dying Declaration: Exception to direct rule of evidence – requires demonstration of no extraneous prompting by anyone to declarant

Supreme Court of Pakistan: A Full Bench of Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, JJ. set

Published on June 26, 2019July 5, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Bom HC | Acid Attack Case: Attacker’s conviction upheld but death penalty commuted holding him to be of young age and not beyond reformation

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of B.P. Dharmadhikari and Prakash D. Naik, JJ. allowed an appeal by a convict who was

Published on June 21, 2019June 27, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Hot Off The PressNews

International News Update | New Hampshire abolishes death penalty; overrides governor’s veto

According to the media reports, New Hampshire in a recent development abolishes capital punishment in the State. “New Hampshire, which hasn’t executed

Published on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Ker HC | No pre-meditation, no criminal antecedents – death penalty of man accused of rape and murder turned into life imprisonment

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of A.M. Shaffique and P. Somarajan, JJ. was hearing a death reference tagged along with a

Published on January 18, 2019January 19, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Mandatory for Court to give death penalty on commission of offence of aggravated robbery

Supreme Court of Zambia: This appeal was filed before a 3-Judge Bench comprising of Hamaundu, Kajimanga and Chinyama, JJS., where trial court

Published on December 25, 2018January 16, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Justice Kurian Joseph calls for review of need for death penalty; Deepak Gupta and Hemant Gupta, JJ. disagree: SC

“Society’s perspective is generally formed by the emotionally charged narratives, which need not necessarily be legally correct, properly informed or procedurally proper.”

Published on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Death Penalty to be reserved for rarest of the rare cases”: Patna HC

Patna High Court: A Division Bench of Arvind Srivastava and Rakesh Kumar, JJ., upheld the judgment of the trial court and dismissed

Published on November 12, 2018November 13, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Legislation UpdatesStatutes/Bills/Ordinances

Parliament| Bill highlighting the provision of “Death penalty to the convicts of child rapists” passed by Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha passed a bill seeking to replace Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance by placing a significant provision of death penalty to the

Published on July 31, 2018August 2, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsInternational Courts

Mandatory Death Penalty in Barbados held Unconstitutional: CCJ

Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ): In the court of Sir Dennis Byron, President and Honourable Justice Saunders, Wit, Hayton, Anderson, Rajnauth-Lee and Barrow

Published on July 5, 2018August 29, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

‘Life imprisonment’ to be awarded when there is a prospect of rehabilitation and reformation, and ‘death penalty’ to be the last resort

Delhi High Court: The recent judgment passed by a bench comprising of S. Muralidhar and I. S. Mehta,JJ., held that ‘life imprisonment’

Published on January 9, 2018January 12, 2018By Saba
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Nirbhaya Case: Death penalty for the 4 accused upheld

Supreme Court: Almost after 5 years of the commission of the horrendous crime that shook not only the nation but the world,

Published on May 5, 2017July 9, 2018By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Man, guilty of burning his pregnant wife and 3-year-old son, not to face death penalty

Supreme Court: In the case where death penalty was sought for a man who allegedly set his 7-month pregnant wife on fire

Published on April 7, 2017April 15, 2017By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Case BriefsForeign Courts

Defendants must be allowed to tell jurors in death penalty cases if they are ineligible for parole

Supreme Court of United States: The Court by a majority of 6:2 reversed the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court where the

Published on June 8, 2016August 20, 2016By Sucheta
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Supreme Court of The United States
Case BriefsForeign Courts

Racial Bias in Jury selection for death penalty case was committed by the State prosecutors

Supreme Court of United States: Ruling that prosecutors in Georgia violated the Constitution by striking every black prospective juror in a death penalty

Published on May 30, 2016August 20, 2016By Sucheta
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Supreme Court

Yakub Memon’s plea against the curative petition and issuance of death warrant, dismissed

Supreme Court: In the wake of the divergent views expressed earlier by the Division Bench of A.R. Dave and Kurian Joseph, JJ.,

Published on July 30, 2015November 23, 2015By Sucheta
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High Courts

Death penalty to the accused confirmed for raping and killing a 13 year old girl

Bombay High Court: In a recent judgment, a bench comprising of VK Tahilramani and IK Jain, JJ has confirmed the death penalty

Published on February 24, 2015October 14, 2015By Sucheta
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High Courts

Mere prior incidence of psychiatric treatment not enough to prove legal insanity

Bombay High Court:  Rejecting the plea of insanity, a division bench comprising of VM Kanade and PD Kode,  JJ confirmed death penalty

Published on September 25, 2014October 14, 2015By Sucheta
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