{"id":5150,"date":"2010-05-06T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2010-05-06T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T09:31:59","slug":"charges-under-which-death-penalty-is-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/charges-under-which-death-penalty-is-awarded","title":{"rendered":"Charges under which death penalty is awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are the charges under which a convict in India can get a death sentence:<\/p>\n<p>* Waging or attempting to wage war, or abetting the waging of war, against the government of India &#8212; death or imprisonment for life and fine.<\/p>\n<p>* Abetment of mutiny, if mutiny is committed in consequence thereof &#8212; death or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine.<\/p>\n<p>* Murder by a person under sentence of imprisonment for life &#8212; death.<\/p>\n<p>* Abetment of suicide committed by child, or insane or delirious person or an idiot, or a person intoxicated &#8212; death or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for 10 years and fine.<\/p>\n<p>* Attempt by life convict to murder, if hurt is caused &#8212; death or imprisonment for 10 years and fine<\/p>\n<p>* Murder in dacoity &#8212; death, imprisonment for life, or rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and fine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are the charges under which a convict in India can get a death sentence: * Waging or attempting to wage war, or abetting the waging of war, against the government of India &#8212; death or imprisonment for life and fine. * Abetment of mutiny, if mutiny is committed in consequence thereof &#8212; death or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Charges under which death penalty is awarded - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following are the charges under which a convict in India can get a death sentence: * Waging or attempting to wage war, or abetting the waging of war, - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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