Dec. 15
INDIA:
Retired DP ACP gets death penalty for custodial death of 2
A Delhi court on Friday awarded death penalty to a former assistant
commissioner of police for torturing 2 persons to death in judicial
custody 19 years' ago.
Terming the offence as rarest of rare, Additional
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Dec. 15
SOUTH DAKOTA:
July 2007 Execution Set For Elijah Page
Another execution date has been set for South Dakota death row inmate
Elijah Page.
Circuit Judge Warren Johnson has ordered Page to be executed the week of
July 9th, 2007.
The South Dakota State Penitentiary warden will select
Dec. 15
INDIA:
Death penalty for India policeman
A court in India has sentenced to death a former senior police official
after finding him guilty of killing a man in custody nearly 20 years ago.
Former assistant commissioner of Delhi police, RP Tyagi, beat his victim,
Mahinder Kumar, so
Dec. 15
USA:
Toobin: Cruelty-free execution is difficult
After it took 34 minutes for an inmate in Florida to die by injection,
Gov. Jeb Bush on Friday ordered a moratorium on all executions in the
state. Meanwhile, a federal judge in California ruled Friday that lethal
injection could be
Dec. 16
CHINA:
China's supreme court ready to exercise death penalty review right : top
judge
China's supreme court has made sound preparations and is ready to take
back the death penalty review right from local higher courts, said the
chief justice on Friday.
Xiao Yang, President of
