A meticulous police investigation and forensic evidence dismantled a staged snakebite alibi, leading a sessions court to rule the killing the rarest of rare.
A Meerut court has awarded capital punishment to Muskan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla after a swift 13-month trial over the killing of merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput.
Death‑row inmate Christa Pike, 50, left the hospital on Saturday and was taken back to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, ending a ten‑day stay after two pentobarbital doses failed to kill her on 30 September.
Governor Bill Lee suspended all executions for the rest of 2026 and ordered an independent inquiry after the state's only female death row inmate survived two lethal doses.
On 1 October 2026 a three‑judge bench of the Supreme Court ordered a stay on the death sentence of Ahmed Bawa, an Indian Mujahideen operative convicted for the 21‑bomb attacks that killed 56 people in Ahmedabad in 2008.
The 50‑year‑old inmate survived two pentobarbital doses, was moved to a hospital and now the state has suspended all executions for the rest of 2026 while a review is underway.
