President of India, Ms Pratibha Patil, has commuted the death sentences of three prisoners lodged in the central prison here to life term.

The Presidential order followed after the prisoners C. Selva

Considering the issue of death penalty in rarest of rare cases, a division bench of the Kerala High Court on Friday initiated a debate on giving harsher life term to the convicts while sparing the rop

In the first ever case of capital punishment in a drug crime, a Special Narcotics Court here has awarded death penalty to a person while sentencing an African national to 15-years of Rigorous Imprison

Dubai, Dec. 17: The Sharjah Appeals Court has postponed the hearing of an appeal by 17 Indians against their death sentence for killing a Pakistani man till December 30, the lawyer handling the case f

Islamabad, Nov. 20: The Pakistan President, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, has stayed the execution of a Christian woman who was sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy.

The woman, Ms Aasia Bibi, was give

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the death sentence of the three men who were given death sentence for attacking Akshardham temple in Ahmedabad in 2002.

French President, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Ms Carla Bruni has been branded as "prostitute" in Iran after she opposed an Iranian court's ruling of awarding death sentence by stoning to a women for adu

Nagpur: The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday commuted death sentences to life terms for six accused in the gruesome Khairlanji Dalit family massacre case of 2006.

A division bench c

Nagpur: The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday commuted death sentences to life terms for six accused in the gruesome Khairlanji Dalit family massacre case of 2006.

A division bench c