Death Penalty News

Earlier, while convicting Chenthamara, the court had asked whether he wished to say anything before sentencing. He initially replied that he had "nothing to say." PALAKKAD: In a significant judgment, the Additional District and Sessions Court-IV, Palakkad, on Monday sentenced Chenthamara (62) to death for the brutal double murder of his neighbours Sudhakaran and his 75-year-old mother Lakshmi at Boyan Unnathi in Pothundy, Nenmara in 2025. In addition to the death penalty, the court imposed a fine of Rs 20 lakh and ordered that this amount be paid as compensation to the victims' family.

The MEA said the Indian nationals were executed after the highest court in the UAE, the Court of Cassation, upheld the death sentences. Two Indian nationals convicted in separate murder cases and sentenced to death in the UAE have been executed, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. They have been identified as Muhammed Rinash Arangilottu and Muraleedharan Perumthatta Valappil, both from Kerala.

Sentences for both accused to run concurrently for the heinous crime A sessions court in Kerala has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to death for the murder of an elderly couple in November 2019 at Venmony village of Chengannur taluk in Alappuzha district. Additional District and Sessions Judge-II Kenneth George on Tuesday sentenced Labloo Hasan, the first accused, to death for the murder of the elderly couple as well as life terms for each of the offences of causing hurt using a deadly weapon during a robbery and trespassing into a house for committing an offence punishable with death. The second accused, Juval Hasan, who is also a Bangladeshi national, was spared the death penalty and was sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the offences of murder, causing hurt using a deadly weapon during a robbery and trespassing into a house for committing an offence punishable with death. The court said all the sentences would run concurrently. Besides that, the court also imposed a fine of...

KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Tuesday sought the state government’s views on an appeal filed by the husband of Uthra challenging his conviction in the infamous snakebite murder case. A division bench led by Justice K Vinod Chandran issued notice to the government after considering an appeal filed by Suraj S Kumar challenging his conviction for the offences of murder, causing hurt by poison, and causing disappearance of evidence. In the case in which Suraj was accused of murdering his 25-year-old wife by throwing a starving cobra on her while she was sleeping, a sessions court had convicted him on October 13. RELATED |  Kerala court finds husband guilty of using a cobra to kill wife RELATED | Kerala Snakebite Murder: Convict Sent To 17 Years In Jail Followed By Double Life Imprisonment Suraj was sentenced to undergo double life imprisonment for murder, 10 years of jail term for causing hurt using poison, and 7 years of internment for destroying evidence. Though the prosecution had...

A court in Kerala's Kollam District has awarded double life imprisonment to Sooraj S Kumar, who was found guilty of murdering his wife Uthra using a cobra . The court which found the 27-year-old guilty on Monday on several counts sentenced him to 17 years in jail, which will be followed by double life imprisonment. "According to the court, the accused will have to first serve 17 years and then only the double life imprisonment will come into force. So technically speaking unless the government gives the accused a remission, for the rest of his life he will have to be in jail," Public Prosecutor G Manoharan said. He has also been fined Rs 5.5 lakhs for the shocking murder of his wife last year. What happened? Sooraj was arrested last year, days after his wife, 25-year-old Uthra was found dead inside her bedroom on May 7, 2020. At the hospital, the reason for Uthra's death was declared as snakebite, but her parents suspected some foul play. That was because a little ove...

A migrant worker from Assam was sentenced to death by the District and Sessions Court for raping and murdering a 60-year-old woman at Puthenvelikkara in 2018. According to reports, the North Paravoor Additional District and Sessions Court pronounced a death sentence against  28-year-old Parimal Sahu, a resident of Nagaon district in Assam. The court found him guilty of trespassing into the house, assaulting and raping, and murdering the woman and destroying evidence. The accused was slapped with a fine of Rs 2,20,000 and the amount will be paid in compensation to the victim's son who is mentally-challenged. The deceased victim who was staying along with her mentally-challenged son was found murdered at her residence at Puthenvelikkara Bazar on March 18, 2018. The convict was living in the outhouse on rent with 3 other migrant workers. Additional Session Judge Murali Gopal Pandala observed that the case comes under "the rarest of rare" warranting the maximum penalty of dea...

Since 2016, there has been a steady increase in the proportion of death penalty cases involving sexual offences. In 2020, 50 (65%) out of 77 cases of the total death sentences imposed by trial courts involved sexual offences, making it the highest in five years, a recent report by Project 39A, a research and advocacy group in New Delhi reveals. Of the 65% cases involving sexual offences, 82% involved minors. As on December 31, 2020, a total of 404 prisoners are on death row with Uttar Pradesh having the most number of such prisoners at 59, followed by Maharashtra at 45 and Madhya Pradesh at 37. Andhra Pradesh, with two, has the lowest count of prisoners on death row. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indian judiciary’s functioning was disrupted, with a major drop in the number of death sentences imposed by trial courts in 2020. In all 62% of the death sentences by trial courts were imposed in the first three months of the year before the lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. The re...