17 April 2017 :
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, by a 3-0 vote, has formally granted habeas corpus relief to Duane Buck, vacating the death sentence imposed by a Harris County, Texas jury after Buck's lawyer presented an expert witness who testified that Buck was more likely to pose a risk of future acts of violence because he is black.
The Kerala High Court has modified the death sentence awarded to Narendra Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh and the sole accused in the Parampuzha triple murder case, to life imprisonment without remission for 20 years for the murder offence.
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An antiterrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on April 24, 2024 sentenced a man, said to be associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, to death for killing four policemen in a targeted attack in a Korangi area in 2015.
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