The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking capital punishment for all qualifying crimes committed by unlawfully residing immigrants or in which law enforcement officers are murdered.

I have not seen much press about President Trump's order concerning the death penalty. But several provisions could prove to be quite significant. First,

India's West Bengal state launched an appeal on Tuesday to overturn a life sentence in favour of the death penalty for a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor, a senior lawyer aware of the development said.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has expressed outrage over the life imprisonment sentence handed to Sanjay Roy, the convict in the brutal rape and murder of a young doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee noted that had the Aparajita Bill come into effect, the death penalty would have been assured — but the Centre was sitting on it

This sentence brings to memory Kerala's last execution, which took place in 1991 when ‘Ripper’ Chandran was hanged for a series of gruesome murders. Chandran earned the chilling moniker for his method of killing—breaking into houses and bludgeoning 14 people to death with a crowbar during robberies.

The West Bengal government has appealed the life sentence of Sanjoy Roy, seeking the death penalty for his conviction in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed disappointment with the initial verdict and vowed to pursue stricter punishment.

The West Bengal government on Tuesday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking death penalty of convict Sanjoy Roy in the RG Kar hospital doctor’s rape and murder case, challenging the order of the trial court that sentenced him to life imprisonment till death.

Expressing 'dissatisfaction' over a Kolkata court awarding life imprisonment to the convict in the RG Kar hospital case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed the probe was 'forcibly' taken away from the state police.

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