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Dhananjay's brother approaches SC

Dhananjay is scheduled to be hanged on August 14 for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Kolkata in 1990.

Does capital punishment really act as a deterrent

'Capital punishment acts as a deterrent'

Should Dhananjoy Chatterjee be hanged?

In January 1994, the Calcutta high court had sentenced him to be hanged until death for raping and then murdering teenager Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 in Kolkata's Bhawanipur area.

President, SC stay rapist-murderer's hanging

Friends, relatives and some jail inmates have pleaded that Chatterjee's death sentence be changed to life imprisonment.

Mercy petition makes hangman wait

Yakub Memon hanged in Nagpur Jail

Yakub Memon, who was convicted for helping finance the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed, was hanged at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning shortly before 7am.

Men who were HANGED for their deeds

Rediff.com takes a look at some cases from the recent past where the courts awarded the capital punishment for horrific crimes that fall under the rarest of rare category.