{"id":14700,"date":"2011-11-17T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T08:56:50","slug":"court-awards-death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-awards-death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder","title":{"rendered":"Court awards death penalty to eight in triple murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/court-awards-death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder\/death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14701\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14701\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-awards-death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder\/death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder.jpg?fit=90%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"90,134\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder.jpg?fit=90%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder.jpg?fit=90%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14701\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/death-penalty-to-eight-in-triple-murder.jpg?resize=90%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>A local court in Uttar Pradeshs Mathura district Wednesday awarded capital punishment to eight people and life sentence to 27 in a two-decade-old triple murder carried out on the orders of a village panchayat, a lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Additional district and session judge A.K. 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