24 February 2017 :
The Alabama Senate voted 30-1 SB 16 to end the practice of allowing judges to overrule jury sentences in death penalty cases. The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 8 (see), and now moves to the House of Representatives.
Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Faisal Rasheed on April 30, 2024 delivered the verdict in the murder case involving nine women and young girls from the same family residing in the limits of Chauntra police station.
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Two former policemen escaped the gallows after the Federal Court’s three-member panel on April 30, 2024 commuted the death sentences imposed on them to 40 years in jail for the murder of an Indonesian mechanic 18 years ago.
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