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Death Penalty (Life and Liberty)
Death Penalty (Life and Liberty)
2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts: special court sentences 38 convicts to death, 11 to life imprisonment
The Leaflet
18 Feb 2022
2 min read
COVID-19 and the demand for harsh penalty against sexual offences may have led to steep rise in the number of death row prisoners in India
Sabah Gurmat
02 Feb 2022
5 min read
HC acquits man awarded death penalty in gang-rape, murder case
The Leaflet
02 Dec 2021
4 min read
What an analysis of the 40 death sentence cases being heard by the Supreme Court tells us
Gauri Anand
01 Oct 2021
16 min read
NIA to Deal With Trafficking: Activists Cry Foul
Rashme Sehgal
12 Aug 2021
6 min read
The Punished by Jahnavi Misra: The saga of 19 death row convicts
Jibraan Mansoor
11 May 2021
5 min read
A Reflection on the Death Penalty for Rape in India
MD Tasnimul Hassan
05 May 2021
5 min read
Batla House encounter: Killer of inspector Mohan Chand Sharma awarded death penalty
The Leaflet
15 Mar 2021
2 min read
Lawyers and women rights activists write to Maharashtra Government raising serious concerns on Shakti Bill
Aman Garg
12 Dec 2020
4 min read
Brandon Bernard is the first execution in Trump’s presidential lame-duck period despite widespread pleas for clemency
Nilakshi Srivastava
11 Dec 2020
3 min read
Union Cabinet approves constitution of 22nd Law Commission
The Leaflet
19 Feb 2020
2 min read
“How to exercise judicial discretion?”, Patna High Court directs training of Judicial officers adjudicating trials
Nishant Sirohi
15 Feb 2020
4 min read
Using Clemency to Bring Non-Violence into State Policy
Prof G Mohan Gopal
11 Feb 2020
5 min read
Nirbhaya Case: Supreme Court dismisses death convict Mukesh’s plea against rejection of mercy petition
The Leaflet
29 Jan 2020
3 min read
President’s suggestion to make right to seek mercy subjective is a constitutional betrayal
Varun Agarwal
14 Dec 2019
5 min read
No statistics to prove deterrence of the death penalty, says Calcutta High Court
The Leaflet
10 Dec 2019
2 min read
Innocent But Damned
Sharib Ali
06 Apr 2019
12 min read
Justice A K Sikri and the Death Penalty
Maitreyi Misra
24 Mar 2019
6 min read
Death penalty shows just how political in nature the criminal justice system happens to be in India
Bindu Doddahatti
07 Aug 2018
8 min read
Death penalty is premeditated murder in the name of society’s ‘collective conscience’
Ajay Kumar
15 Jul 2018
5 min read
Supreme Court rejects review petitions of three of Nirbhaya’s rapists facing death penalty
The Leaflet
10 Jul 2018
4 min read
Death penalty for child rapists is no solution to the entrenched social malaise
Shivangi Misra
25 May 2018
7 min read
Withdraw Demand for Death Penalty to Rapists: Lawyers, Activists to Swati Maliwal
The Invisible Lawyers Team
25 May 2018
4 min read
An Open Letter to Swati Maliwal in protest against her move for death penalty for rape of minors
The Invisible Lawyers Team
25 May 2018
7 min read
Death penalty, solitary confinement and its first cousin
Ankita Ramgopal
24 May 2018
7 min read
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