34 years after the murder of two men in anti-Sikh riots, a Delhi court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to an accused and life imprisonment to another. This is the first death sentence pronounced since SIT is probing the 1984 Sikh riots case.

In a quickest trail in the country ever, the district court has awarded death sentence to a 21-year-old man in terrible rape and murder of a four- month-old baby in Indore on Saturday. The verdict by a fast-track court came within record 23 days, TV reports said.

General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Army chief of Pakistan has confirmed the death sentences awarded to 11 "hardcore terrorists" who were given the capital punishment by special military courts for killing of 60 people, the military said today.

The Indian courts gave 109 death sentences last year, but the country did not execute anyone, according to Amnesty International.

A Pakistan court on Saturday gave a 24-year-old man four death sentences for raping and murdering six-year-old Zainab Amin last month.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a plea by death row convict Mukesh Singh seeking review of the top court judgment upholding his death sentence in December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape case.

A Tamil Nadu Court on Tuesday sentenced six accused to death for murdering Shankar in a case of honour killing.

A Special Court on Wednesday awarded death sentence to all three accused convicted in the rape and brutal murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Kopardi village in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district in 2016.

The International Court of Justice will announce its verdict on Thursday on India's appeal against the death sentence awarded by a Pakistani court to alleged spy Kulbhushan Jadhav.

Priyanka Chopra has penned an emotionally touching note after the Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences of all four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang- rape case. The Indian actress says she is "proud" of the justice system.