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A fast track court in Kerala's Thrissur has awarded death sentence to Govindachamy for the brutal murder of Soumya, a 23-year-old woman who was pushed out of a moving train and brutally raped and killed in February 2011. The court found Govindachamy guilty and sentenced him to life
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The U.S. Supreme Court has made a significant decision reinstating the murder conviction and death sentence of Archie Dixon, who was found guilty in the 1993 "buried alive" death of Christopher Hammer. In a reversal of a lower court's decision, the high court overturned a
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In a rare display of judicial efficiency in Pakistan, a paramilitary soldier was handed a death sentence for shooting an unarmed teenager in Karachi in June, a killing that sent shockwaves through the country. The incident was captured on a widely circulated video, which showed the teenager, Sarfraz Shah, repeatedly
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In a groundbreaking verdict delivered by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi, Pakistan, 35-year-old Shahid Zafar, a soldier, was sentenced to death for shooting and killing an unarmed youth, Sarfraz Shah, on June 8. The killing, which sparked widespread outrage and public anger, was captured on video and broadcast repeatedly on
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In a significant development, the Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of Santosh Kumar Singh, the perpetrator of the Priyadarshani Mattoo rape and murder case. The court, in a recent hearing, reduced the death sentence to life imprisonment, citing that the balance sheet in the case marginally favored the
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The Ohio Parole Board will hold a clemency hearing for inmate Sidney Cornwell, convicted of the 1996 murder of Jessica Ballew, on October 13, 2010. The hearing will be held at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Central Office location in Columbus, and media wishing to attend
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Iranian officials have yet to reach a final decision in the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, who now faces execution by hanging for the alleged murder of her husband. The foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, stated that the focus is
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Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court confirmed the death sentence awarded to Sunil Gaikwad for killing his wife and two sons, and attempting to murder his 12-year-old daughter. The incident, which occurred on July 8, 2008, was described by the judges as "extremely diabolical in its conception and
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The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack case, issuing a notice to the Gujarat government on their plea challenging their conviction and sentence. The convicts, Adambhai Sulemanbhai Ajmeri and Abdul Kayum, were given death penalty under POTA
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President Ziaur Rahman has granted clemency to 20 Awami League activists who were sentenced to death for the murder of Jubo Dal leader Sabbir Hossain Gama. The convicts are expected to be released from Dhaka and Rajshahi Central Jails anytime now, after the President's mercy petition was granted.
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A man accused of driving drunk and killing a Suffolk police officer was sentenced to a year in prison on unrelated charges after pleading guilty to drunk driving and carrying a gravity knife. Jose Borbon, 24, was stopped on the Long Island Expressway in Plainview on January 4, 2009, and
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A three-judge panel in Virginia exonerated York County Commonwealth's Attorney Eileen Addison last week, dismissing charges that she improperly coached a witness in a capital murder case. The case centered on the prosecution of Darryl Atkins, who was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of Eric
