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Rape and murder of 8 years old niece in state of being drunk. [25] 169 Dhananjoy Chatterjee: 14 August 2004: 39 25 Alipore Jail, Kolkata West Bengal Rape and Murder Rape and murder of 18-year-old Hetal Parekh on 5 March 1990 [3] [26] 170 Ajmal Kasab: 21 November 2012: 25 21 Yerwada Central Jail: Maharashtra Murder, and waging war against the ...
In March 2023, the Supreme Court of India freed Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary after he spent 28 years, six months and 23 days in custody, and was freed from Nagpur jail. At the time of conviction, Chaudhary was 12 years and six months. As per Indian laws, death sentence or any sentence more than three years cannot be awarded to a juvenile. [5]
Capital punishment in India is the highest legal penalty for crimes under the country's main substantive penal legislation, the Indian Penal Code, as well as other laws.. Executions are carried out by hanging as the primary method of execution per Section 354(5) of the Criminal Code of Procedure, 1973 is "Hanging by the neck until dead", and is imposed only in the 'rarest of ca
Prisoners sentenced to death by India (1 C, 15 P) ... Inmates of Tihar Jail (52 P) L. Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by India (31 P) M.
Here are the 37 federal death row inmates who had their sentences commuted, along with their states and conviction details via the Death Penalty Information Center.
Longest serving death row inmate in Georgia. [159] Sentenced to death for kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old girl. [160] [161] Richard Gerald Jordan: March 2, 1977 ongoing 47 years, 303 days United States: Sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of a woman in Mississippi. Jordan is Mississippi's longest serving death row ...
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (14 August 1965 – 14 August 2004) was the first person who was judicially executed in India in the 21st century for murder. The execution by hanging took place in Alipore Jail, Kolkata, on 14 August 2004. [2] [3] He was charged in 1990 for the crimes of rape and murder of Hetal Parekh, an 18-year-old school-girl. [1] [4]
Prisoners sentenced to death by courts of India. People who were ultimately executed by India should be placed in Category:People executed by India. For prisoners of Indian nationality sentenced to death, see Category:Indian prisoners sentenced to death.