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
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
HC acquits man awarded death penalty in gang-rape, murder case
Courtesy: The Indian Express
NIA to Deal With Trafficking: Activists Cry Foul
The Punished by Jahnavi Misra: The saga of 19 death row convicts
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Death Convict Ariz Khan.
Lawyers and women rights activists write to Maharashtra Government raising serious concerns on Shakti Bill
Brandon Bernard is the first execution in Trump’s presidential lame-duck period despite widespread pleas for clemency
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“How to exercise judicial discretion?”, Patna High Court directs training of Judicial officers adjudicating trials 
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Nirbhaya Case: Supreme Court dismisses death convict Mukesh’s plea against rejection of mercy petition
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Innocent But Damned
Sharib Ali
12 min read
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Death penalty shows just how political in nature the criminal justice system happens to be in India
Death penalty is premeditated murder in the name of society’s ‘collective conscience’
Supreme Court rejects review petitions of three of Nirbhaya’s rapists facing death penalty
Death penalty for child rapists is no solution to the entrenched social malaise
Withdraw Demand for Death Penalty to Rapists: Lawyers, Activists to Swati Maliwal
An Open Letter to Swati Maliwal in protest against her move for death penalty for rape of minors
Death penalty, solitary confinement and its first cousin
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