K-P body okays death sentence for child abusers
Approves amendments on child protection law, to be tabled in K-P Assembly
Death Penalty News
Death penalty urged over Japan care home massacre
Satoshi Uematsu, a former care home employee, did not dispute his involvement in the 2016 stabbing rampage
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Death penalty
A lot of people may disagree with me, but I insist that death penalty is not enough of a deterrent
PBC rejects NA’s public hanging resolution
Says Friday resolution violates SC orders and international conventions
Top India court confirms four men to hang for bus rape and murder
Rape of 23-year old student on moving bus led to tough new laws against sexual violence
Death penalty waiver for extradited suspects reviewed
Senate panel reviews Section 3 of PPC and proposed amendment
Texas man to be arraigned in El Paso mass murder, accused of targeting Mexicans
He will face the death penalty if he is convicted
Structural violence against women and girls
Figures on violence are difficult to come by, particularly intimate partner violence
Philippine polls could open door to death penalty return
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to strengthen his grip on power in midterm polls
Pakistan suspends executions during Ramazan
Decision to temporarily suspend death penalty taken in view of sanctity of the holy month
Abolition of death penalty
The notion of capital punishment is difficult to support given the history of executions in Pakistan
SC overturned 78% death penalty verdicts in 8 years
Lower courts continue to apply decades-old precedent under which death was normal punishment
Death penalty elimination
Laws are being amended to ostensibly favour personal agendas and vendettas
PTI govt to waive death penalty for extradited suspects
Cabinet gives counter terrorism depts powers to investigate money laundering cases
Two sentenced to death in dual murder case in Okara
Court awards seven year jail term to other co-accused
