The government is reviewing whether to reduce the tenure of life imprisonment, particularly for elderly inmates, Home Affairs Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said yesterday.

A veteran Indian politician was yesterday given a life sentence over anti-Sikh riots in 1984 that killed nearly 3,000 people following the assassination of then-premier Indira Gandhi.

A youth has been awarded death penalty by Kishoreganj Women and Children Repression Prevention court today for raping and murdering a four-year-old girl.

A Bangladeshi-origin British man who plotted an Islamic State-inspired attack on US military personnel based in England has been jailed for life and told he will spend at least 12 years behind bars.

The Supreme Court commutes death sentence of Tofayel Ahmed Joseph, one of the “top-listed terrorists of the 1990s”, to life imprisonment for killing Freedom Party Leader Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa in 1996.