Capital Punishment

As per the amendment bill, the record of the child rapists would be shared with Child Commission and the NADRA. 

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s cabinet on Monday will consider capital punishment for traffic accident deaths, a law ministry official said, as tens of thousands of students protested for a ninth day over the deaths of two teenagers killed by a speeding bus in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who faces an election due by the end of the year, has accused her political rivals of trying to stir up anti-government sentiment using the deaths as a pretext. The opposition has denied involvement. The crowded capital of 18 million…

CHARLESTON: A US jury on Tuesday condemned self-described white supremacist Dylann Roof to death over the massacre of nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church in June 2015 -- a crime that shocked the nation. Roof, 22, was convicted last month of 33 federal charges -- including hate crimes resulting in death -- in connection with the shooting spree at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston. A Bible study group at "Mother Emanuel," which had welcomed Roof, was just…

AUSTIN: The number of US executions fell to a quarter-century low in 2016 as new death sentences plummeted, indicating capital punishment is on the decline, a study released on Wednesday showed. The number of US executions in 2016 was 20, the lowest since 1991, according to the study from the Death Penalty Information Centre, which monitors capital punishment. While 31 states have the death penalty, only five held executions in 2016. Georgia carried out the most at nine while Texas was next at seven, it said. The…

SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities have uncovered an "underground bank" which illegally transferred money overseas in a case valued at $64 billion, said to be the country's largest ever, according to a police statement.

LAHORE: More than 50 ulema and religious scholars on Monday decreed to hand capital punishment to the perpetrators behind horrific Kasur child abuse scandal, ARY News reported.

KARACHI: Sindh Police on Saturday shifted two death row convicts to Karachi Central Jail, ARY News reports.

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday released two prisoners that were awarded death penalty, ARY News reports.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has lifted moratorium over capital punishment in Pakistan, ARY News reported on Wednesday.