Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh’s interim government has formally sent a third extradition request to India, demanding the return of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following her death sentence by the International Crimes Tribunal for crimes against humanity linked to a violent crackdown on protests. Hasina, currently in hiding in India since her government was toppled in 2024, has become a focal point in strained India-Bangladesh relations amid ongoing diplomatic pressure.


Hasina's extradition: Dhaka presses India after Sheikh Hasina's death sentence verdict

Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has been sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes and treason.


DRC: Former Congolese president sentenced to death for war crimes

A prisoner on death row in Arkansas is pleading for death, citing the mould and bugs in his cell. However, his requests are being hindered because of other inmates on death row. Here is what they are asking for.

Arkansas prisoner is pleading for quick execution, but other inmates have sued to stop it. Here is what's happening

 The bench observed that while the crime was undeniably grave, the courts below had relied solely on its brutality to award the death sentence.

Brutality not sufficient grounds: Supreme Court commutes death penalty of man in child rape-murder case

Originally from Kerala, the 37-year-old is accused of killing Talal Abdo Mehdi. Meanwhile, Nimisha Priya’s family said that they have not received any official information regarding her execution.

Indian nurse Nimisha Priya to be executed in Yemen on July 16, claims report. Here’s what her family says

The court also ordered the confiscation of Liu’s personal assets after he was found guilty of taking over 121 million yuan ($16.83 million) in bribes. His illegal gains will be turned over to the state.

Who is Liu Yuejin? China’s former counterterror chief sentenced to death for bribery

The High Court of Bangladesh has upheld the death sentence for 20 university students convicted in a brutal 2019 lynching case. The students were found guilty of killing a fellow mate, sparking nationwide outrage. Four of the convicts are still on the run as authorities continue their search.

Bangladesh High Court upholds death sentence for 20 in lynching case

The outgoing US president announced in his final month in the White House that he was converting the death sentences of 37 inmates out of a total of 40 who are waiting for federal execution to life without the possibility of parole. Nine inmates among them were convicted of murdering fellow prisoners, and five are also murder convicts.



'Makes no sense': Trump hits out at Biden for death sentence commutations

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wife held Yazidi women captured by the Islamic State in her home, according to Iraqi authorities. Watch to know more.

Iraq: Baghdadi's wife gets death sentence for crimes against Yazidis

Kozhikode native Abdul Rahim, sentenced to death row at Al-Malaz Prison in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and for whom Kerala raised a staggering sum of ₹34 crore as blood money for his release, may get released soon.

Saudi Arabia: Indian national on death row in Saudi jail to be freed

Pakistani Christians take to streets over blasphemy death sentence

'Rare sentence': China court hands death sentence to banker for taking $151 million in bribes

Indian court gives death sentence to two for raping, burning alive minor girl

On Saturday night (April 20), Nimisha Priya's mother, Premakumari, and Samuel Jerome, the chairman of the 'Save Nimisha' Action Council and a human rights activist, arrived at Yemen's international airport. Their purpose is to visit Nimisha Priya, who is currently detained in a Yemeni prison.

Nimisha Priya: Kerala nurse’s mom reaches Yemen to rescue her from death sentence

Student given death sentence in Pakistan for ‘sharing blasphemous messages'

Chilling death sentence: Alabama plans second execution using nitrogen gas despite backlash over first

Qatar reduces sentences of eight Indian nationals on death row

Delhi HC permits mother of Indian nurse on death row to travel to Yemen at own risk

In Yemen a 34-year-old Indian woman is on death row after the country's top judicial body convicted her of murdering a local man. Nimisha Priya is lodged in the war torn country's Central Jail while in India her family members are making all our efforts to get her freed.

Kerala nurse on death row for killing a local man in Yemen

Saudi Arabia to execute man for criticising government on X account with only nine followers

'Death sentence': Experts warn as world's hottest day ever recorded on 3 July

Pakistan: Anti-terrorism court pronounces death sentence to Muslim man over blasphemous WhatsApp post

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Hasina's extradition: Dhaka presses India after Sheikh Hasina's death sentence verdict

DRC: Former Congolese president sentenced to death for war crimes

Arkansas prisoner wants to be executed quickly, but other inmates have sued

Supreme Court commutes death penalty of man in child rape-murder case

Indian nurse Nimisha Priya to be executed in Yemen on July 16, claims report

Who is Liu Yuejin? China’s former counterterror chief sentenced to death

Bangladesh High Court upholds death sentence for 20 in lynching case

'Makes no sense': Trump hits out at Biden for death sentence commutations

'Makes no sense': Trump hits out at Biden for death sentence commutations

Iraq: Baghdadi's wife gets death sentence for crimes against Yazidis

Saudi Arabia: Indian national on death row in Saudi jail to be freed

Pakistani Christians take to streets over blasphemy death sentence

'Rare sentence': China court hands death sentence to banker for taking $151 million in bribes

Indian court gives death sentence to two for raping, burning alive minor girl

Nimisha Priya: Kerala nurse’s mom reaches Yemen to rescue her from death sentence

Nimisha Priya: Kerala nurse’s mom reaches Yemen to rescue her from death sentence

Student given death sentence in Pakistan for ‘sharing blasphemous messages'

Chilling death sentence: Alabama plans second execution using nitrogen gas despite backlash over first

Qatar reduces sentences of eight Indian nationals on death row

Delhi HC permits mother of Indian nurse on death row to travel to Yemen at own risk

Kerala nurse on death row for killing a local man in Yemen

Saudi Arabia to execute man for criticising government on X account with only nine followers

'Death sentence': Experts warn as world's hottest day ever recorded on 3 July

Pakistan: Anti-terrorism court pronounces death sentence to Muslim man over blasphemous WhatsApp post