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Rasha alias Raghuraj Singh, executed on 9 September 1947 at Jabalpur Central Jail, is presumed to be the first person executed in independent India. [3] Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, who were hanged on 20 March 2020, were the last persons to be executed in India. Rattan Bai Jain, executed on 3 January 1955 at Tihar ...
The rule further extends to death penalty as well, i.e. persons who are insane and declared so by a competent court, cannot be given death penalty. The legality of the death sentence and its relation with the mental illness of the accused was discussed in various cases by the Indian Judiciary. [103]
Last execution date Name Crime Method C Algeria: August 1993 [1] seven unnamed Islamic terrorists: terrorism: firing squad: A Angola: 1977 [2] Nito Alves and many of his supporters treason: firing squad: A Benin: 23 September 1987 [3] murder: A Bophuthatswana: 13 December 1990 [4] [5] Alpheus Sekoboane murder: hanging: D Botswana: 11 June 2021 ...
Muthukutty Chandran, infamously known as Ripper Chandran (15 December 1950 – 6 July 1991) was an Indian serial killer from Kerala, who was hanged to death in 1991 for committing fourteen murders during robberies. He is currently the last person to be hanged to death in Kerala.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's top court on Monday quashed the release of 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her relatives during Hindu ...
Dhananjoy to be hanged" – article in the Indian Express dated 5 August 2004 referring to his mercy petition being rejected by the President of India "Dhananjoy Chatterjee to be hanged on Saturday" – article in the Deccan Herald on 11 August 2004 "On death row Chatterjee gets a reprieve" – article in HTTabloid.com dated 11 August 2004
A hitman who was one of two people who shot and killed a man acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight has been jailed for life in Canada without the possibility of parole for 20 years.
THE COUNTDOWN: For the past 13 years, the BBC show has been offering up generous servings of stabbings, poisonings and kidnappings on the island of sunny Saint Marie. Following the news of Ralf ...