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• ‘Offence was not pre-meditated’; Allahabad HC commutes death sentence to life imprisonment of man who raped and killed his 5-month-old cousin

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  The Court reiterated that though in a rape and murder case based on circumstantial evidence, the death penalty can be awarded in the ‘rarest of rare’, normally imprisonment for life without any remission may be awarded, unless a death sentence is inevitable. Published on November 21, 2025 By (…)

• Capital punishment highest in murder cases, sexual violence next: Death penalty lawyer Shreya Rastogi

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  Rastogi says the grounds for commuting a death penalty to life imprisonment includes a jail conduct report, a psychological evaluation, and a probation officer's report. Written by Jagriti RaiNew Delhi | Updated: November 21, 2025 09:35 PM IST Capital punishment in India: While upholding the (…)

• Madras HC commutes death sentence of man accused of killing ex-girlfriend

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  Chennai, Nov 28 (PTI) The Madras High Court has commuted to life term, the death sentence of a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend by pushing her before a train here in 2022. D Sathish had pushed the woman, a student, on the track at St Thomas Mount here after she disowned him. Before she (…)

• Kerala Court Issues Death Sentence in Murder of Pregnant Woman Anita

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  Prabeesh & Rajani Published on Nov 29, 2025, 04:18 PM | 2 min read ALAPPUZHA: The Alappuzha Additional Sessions Court–III on Monday awarded death penalty to the first accused in the Anitha murder case that took place in Kainakari. Prabeesh (37), of Pookodan House, Nilambur, was sentenced to (…)

• Mother Sentenced to Death in Bihar’s Araria for Poisoning Minor Daughter After Being Caught With Another Man

  15 December 2025, by Abolish Death Penalty India
  A Bihar mother was handed a death sentence for murdering her young daughter who threatened to reveal her illicit affair to the absent father. Ananya GanotraNovember 29, 2025 In Bihar’s Araria district, 35-year-old Poonam Devi received a death sentence on November 27, 2025, from District (…)

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