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DEATH PENALTY IN INDIA NEWS
The death penalty has been widely, unfairly imposed. Supreme Court has fixed the problem
September 26, 2025 3:42 pm
The 'Dupare' ruling marks a momentous shift in India’s constitutional jurisprudence on the death penalty. By elevating sentencing safeguards to the status of fundamental rights, the Court has reaffirmed that the administration of the death penalty cannot escape the rigours of equality, fairness, and due process
Karnataka court hands death penalty to 3 for killing five of a family over love marriage
April 09, 2025 7:23 am
Nine relatives of the three convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment over the July 11, 2020 killings in Karnataka’s Raichur district.
For second year, no death penalty passes SC test
February 11, 2025 6:49 am
The SC heard six appeals in 2024 — it commuted five death sentences to life imprisonment while one was acquitted
Report: 165 death penalties by trial courts in 2022, most since 2000
January 30, 2023 11:42 am
The report will be released on Monday by Project 39A, a criminal reforms advocacy group with the National Law University, Delhi.
Supreme Court commutes death penalty to 20-year jail in minor’s rape-murder case
April 21, 2022 2:28 am
“A tiny bud like girl was smothered by the appellant before she could blossom in this world. Any sympathy shown to the appellant would lead to miscarriage of justice. This court has not treated such cases as the rarest of rare,” reads the order.
Tougher isn’t better
April 24, 2018 12:27 am
Death penalty for sexual offences against children is misconceived. Ordinance is doomed to fail
The bias of death penalty against the economically vulnerable
May 24, 2016 5:42 pm
The death penalty seems to perpetuate a “systemic marginalization” against prisoners from vulnerable and marginalized backgrounds.
A look at capital punishment in India
April 08, 2014 12:48 pm
Four convicts of Delhi gangrape case have sentenced to death for raping and murdering a woman.
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