India prepares to hang woman for first time since independence
3 years, 10 months ago

India prepares to hang woman for first time since independence

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy India may hang a female convict for the first time since its independence in 1947, carrying out death penalty against a woman who murdered seven members of her family with an axe. Since 1947 when India gained independence from the British, some 750 people have been hanged even though India’s government claims the number is just above 50, according to a report by the National Law University. According to the “Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report” 2020, published by the National Law University, 404 prisoners are facing the death penalty as of 31 December 2020.

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Iran executed at least 31 women in 2024 claims human rights monitor
1 week, 2 days ago

Iran executed at least 31 women in 2024 claims human rights monitor

Hindustan Times  

Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said on Monday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught in a surge in the use of capital punishment in the Islamic republic. Representative image: Iran has executed more than 30 women in 2024 as per an NGO Norway-based Iran Human Rights, which closely tracks executions in Iran, said …

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO

The Hindu  

Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted …

Woman Hangs Herself Due to Harassment; Husband, Father-in-law Held in Thane
2 years, 1 month ago

Woman Hangs Herself Due to Harassment; Husband, Father-in-law Held in Thane

News 18  

Police have arrested the husband and the father-in-law of a 24-year-old housewife from Kalyan in Thane district of Maharashtra for abetting her suicide, an official said on Monday. A case was registered against the husband of the woman and her in-laws under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code after she hanged herself at her house in Kalyan on Sunday, …

Shabnam - first woman to be hanged in independent India. Here's the story of her horrific crime
3 years, 10 months ago

Shabnam - first woman to be hanged in independent India. Here's the story of her horrific crime

India TV News  

For the first time in the history of India's Independence, a woman on death row will be executed at the country's lone female execution room in Mathura. On April 15, 2008, Shabnam's entire family was wiped out and the woman initially pretended that her house in Amroha district of UP was attacked by unidentified assailants. India's only female execution room …

UP Convict Who Axed 7 Family Members to Death May be 1st Woman to be Hanged Post Independence
3 years, 10 months ago

UP Convict Who Axed 7 Family Members to Death May be 1st Woman to be Hanged Post Independence

News 18  

Probably for the first time in the history of independent India, a woman prisoner will be hanged till death for a rare crime she was found guilty of. Pawan Jallad of Meerut, who hanged Nirbhaya’s accused, has also inspected the hanging house twice. In case the authorities proceed with the hanging, Shabnam will be the first female prisoner to be …

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Day after execution of four convicts, UN calls on all nations to stop use of capital punishment
4 years, 9 months ago

2012 Delhi gangrape case: Day after execution of four convicts, UN calls on all nations to stop use of capital punishment

Firstpost  

The UN has called on all nations to stop the use of capital punishment or put a moratorium on it, a day after four men convicted of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman were hanged in India. United Nations: The UN has called on all nations to stop the use of capital punishment or put a moratorium on it, a …

Crime and punishment: The Hindu Editorial on hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts
4 years, 9 months ago

Crime and punishment: The Hindu Editorial on hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts

The Hindu  

The pre-dawn hangings of four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman may have brought a semblance of closure to her parents, prompting her mother, to say, “Women will now feel safe.” On December 16, 2012, the woman was brutally raped in an empty moving bus in Delhi and she died after battling for her …

Nirbhaya case :Human Rights activists "cry foul" after rapists are executed
4 years, 9 months ago

Nirbhaya case :Human Rights activists "cry foul" after rapists are executed

Op India  

Following the execution of the convicts involved in the brutal gangrape and murder of 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012 who was named “Nirbhaya” by the media, several self-proclaimed human rights activists assumed moral high ground and dubbed the death penalty handed out to the convicts as an act of revenge. #Nirbhaya https://t.co/tWHlKA2Zh9 — Mohd Mojahid March 20, 2020 Citing the …

'Justice finally granted': 2012 Delhi gangrape victim's parents hail hanging of four convicts, say historic day for all women
4 years, 9 months ago

'Justice finally granted': 2012 Delhi gangrape victim's parents hail hanging of four convicts, say historic day for all women

Firstpost  

The victim’s father, Badrinath Singh hailed the hanging saying that their daughter had finally got the justice, seven years after she was brutalised in a moving bus in Delhi. After the hanging of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case on Friday, the victim’s mother Asha Devi dedicated the day to the daughters of …

India hangs four men over 2012 Delhi bus gang rape and murder
4 years, 9 months ago

India hangs four men over 2012 Delhi bus gang rape and murder

Al Jazeera  

The four men, sentenced to death in 2013, have been executed at Tihar jail after their clemency pleas were rejected. India has executed four men for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four were hanged before dawn on Friday at Tihar jail in …

Delay in hanging shows failure of system, says Nirbhaya's mother
4 years, 10 months ago

Delay in hanging shows failure of system, says Nirbhaya's mother

India Today  

Delhi gangrape victim Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Monday said no matter what the convicts do, they will be hanged for their crime, after a Delhi court deferred the execution of death penalty in the case till further orders. Asha Devi said she "loses hope every day" but the convicts will be hanged no matter what they do. A Delhi …

Convicts' lawyer mocked me, said hanging postponed till eternity: Nirbhaya's mother
4 years, 11 months ago

Convicts' lawyer mocked me, said hanging postponed till eternity: Nirbhaya's mother

India Today  

Soon after a local court in Delhi postponed the hanging of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gangrape case, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi broke down outside the court and said her hopes have been dashed. "Mujrimom ke vakeel AP Singh ne mujhe aaj anguli dikha kar challenge kiya ki ye faasi ab anant kaal tak tal gayi hai," Nirbhaya's …

Nirbhaya rape-murder convicts to be hanged soon? Whispers grow louder
5 years, 1 month ago

Nirbhaya rape-murder convicts to be hanged soon? Whispers grow louder

India Today  

Whispers about the imminent hangings of the four men convicted of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder are getting stronger with each passing day. And, the central government has recommended to President Ram Nath Kovind that a mercy petition filed by one of the four Nirbhaya rape and murder convicts be rejected. THE ROPE FROM BUXAR What really got everybody …

Women need faith in police, judiciary to speak up; death penalty neither ends rape, nor instils confidence among them
6 years, 3 months ago

Women need faith in police, judiciary to speak up; death penalty neither ends rape, nor instils confidence among them

Firstpost  

A major problem is that with the rape of girls below 12 punishable by the death penalty under the ordinance, there are now high chances that the accused will murder the child after the rape. After the horrific Kathua rape case, to appease building pressure from all across the country, the Narendra Modi government passed an ordinance as per which …

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