Death Sentence  

Learn about capital punishment in the Indian legal system, including when the death penalty is given.

The Central government has said that the 2018 Rules does not prohibit the execution of death sentence of co-convicts, one by one, on the rejection of their respective mercy petitions

Under Article 72, the President of India has the power to pardon a convict. Article 72 says that the President shall have the powers to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment. This, however, comes with certain conditions.

The four Nirbhaya case convicts were sentenced to death for raping a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in the national capital on the intervening night of December 16-17, 2012

Recent reports suggest that there are specific intelligence inputs that PM Modi will be assassinated on December 22 when he addresses a large gathering at the Ramlila Maidan Rally in New Delhi. A Jaipur court has awarded death sentence to all four convicts in the 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts case. The convicts are identified as Sarvar Aazmi, Mohammad Saif, Saifur Rahman and Salman. Do not miss the headlines of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds.
 

 A Jaipur court has awarded death sentence to all four convicts in the 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts case. The convicts are identified as Sarvar Aazmi, Mohammad Saif, Saifur Rahman and Salman. A Jaipur court has awarded death sentence to all four convicts in the 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts case. The convicts are identified as Sarvar Aazmi, Mohammad Saif, Saifur Rahman and Salman.

CJI Bobde on Tuesday recused himself from the Nirbhaya case. One of the convicts Akshay Kumar Singh had filed a review petition after the top court had ordered death sentence.
 

Former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, had been living in a self-imposed exile in Dubai for "seeking medical treatment" and has not returned to the country since.

From 2005 till October 31 this year, nearly 1000 terrorists have been killed while trying to cross over into India through Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Watch the top headlines of the day from across India on MyNation in 100 seconds.

Akshay Kumar Singh, one of the convicts in Nirbhaya case has filed a review petition against the death sentence in the Supreme Court. If the court rejects the plea, he will be left with the only option to plead for mercy with the President. This comes a few days after the home ministry recommended President Ram Nath Kovind to reject the mercy plea filed by another accused Vinay Kumar.

The Warangal court awarded the death sentence to an accused after convicting him for the rape and murder of a 9-month-old in June 2019.
 

BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan requested the government to order a death sentence for the guilty in the Pollachi assault case

The President Pranab Mukherjee on April 27, 2015, had rejected the mercy petition submitted by Antony. The plea presented in 2010 was rejected after five years. 

Muniyappan was released from jail under Tamil Nadu government's premature release scheme. Muniyappan, along with two others, torched the bus in protest against the Supreme Court verdict in 2000.