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Many prosecutors have become more discriminating, calling for death only in the worst cases.
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The panel also recommended that those found guilty of rape leading to death spend the rest of their life in prison, but it stopped short of calling for the death penalty, something which many in India had pushed for, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports from Delhi.
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The Dhaka protesters, backed by influential bloggers, have been calling for the death sentence for Islamist politicians found guilty by a war-crimes tribunal looking into atrocities committed during the country's 1971 war of independence.
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