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Features

World Day Against the Death Penalty: How long till Bangladesh too drops the capital punishment?

From 2013 to 2023, Bangladesh carried out at least 30 executions, mostly in cases involving murder, terrorism, and war crimes related to the 1971 Liberation War

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Court

Govt appeals against HC ruling barring detention of death-row inmates in condemned cells

File photo of the High Court division building of the Supreme Court in Dhaka. Photo: Collected
Court

Toddler in death row with mother: HC wants legal protection for child's physical, mental development

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Bangladesh

Death row war criminal arrested in Savar

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Bangladesh

RU professor murder: Rajshahi Central Jail gets letter from president rejecting pardon plea of 2 death row convicts

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Crime

2 death row convict militants flee from police custody 

RAB nabs death row convict on the run for 12 years from Barishal
Crime

RAB nabs death row convict on the run for 12 years from Barishal

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Crime

Death row inmate ends life in Kashimpur jail

High Court, Bangladesh. Photo- The Business Standard
Court

Why keeping convicts in condemned cells before the final verdict ought not to be illegal: HC

OC Pradeep Kumar Das and army major Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
Bangladesh

Sinha murder case: Death reference of OC Pradeep, Liaquat Ali reaches SC

Lisa Montgomery. Picture: Collected
World+Biz

US executes first woman on federal death row in nearly seven decades

This undated family photo of Lezmond Mitchell, who is scheduled to be executed for the 2001 killing of a grandmother and her granddaughter. Photo: Auska Mitchell via AP
World+Biz

US to execute only Native American on federal death row

Wheel of justice for death row convicts moves too slow
Law & order

Wheel of justice for death row convicts moves too slow