The American criminal justice system has been put on trial by the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM accuses the system of being racially biased against blacks. The evidence includes the statistical ove...

Global executions fell by almost one-third in 2018 to the lowest figure in at least a decade. While India did not record any executions in 2018, it saw the highest number of death sentences imposed in...

Nirbhaya's mother broke down outside the Patiala House court on Wednesday after the court adjourned for January 7 the hearing on the issuance of death warrants against the four convicts in the 2012 De...

The Delhi government on Wednesday told the high court that execution of the death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case will not take place on January 22 as a mercy plea has been filed...

Four convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder case will be hanged on January 22 at 7am in Tihar jail, a Delhi court said on Tuesday. Additional sessions judge Satish Kumar Arora issued the deat...

Laws sometimes contain inner puzzles even when they are formulated with contemporary concerns in mind. The Supreme Court has said that the young man, four days short of 18, or legal adulthood, who ran...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the curative petitions filed by two of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case.A 5-judge bench headed by Justice N. V. Ramana r...

One of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape-and-murder case has been shifted to Tihar jail, officials said on Tuesday.The convict, Pawan Kumar Gupta, who was lodged in the Mandoli Jail, was shifted t...

Nirbhaya's father on Saturday said senior lawyer Indira Jaising should be 'ashamed' of suggesting pardon for the four death row convicts in his daughter's gangrape case and said his family isn't as 'l...

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday rejected the mercy plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case, sources said.The rejection came soon after the...