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Union of India, January 2014, [51] a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court delivered a landmark judgment on the death penalty: holding, in particular, that an excessive delay in carrying out the death sentence was an essential mitigating factor in a plea for commutation. [52]
India imposes the death penalty, although it is rarely carried out in practice. An average of nearly 90 rapes a day were reported in 2022 in the country of 1.4 billion people, but activists say ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Rasha alias Raghuraj Singh, executed on 9 September 1947 at Jabalpur Central Jail, is presumed to be the first person executed in independent India. [3] Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, who were hanged on 20 March 2020, were the last persons to be executed in India. Rattan Bai Jain, executed on 3 January 1955 at Tihar ...
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India ‘deeply shocked’ after Qatar sentences 8 nationals to death on reported spy charges Vedika Sud, Akanksha Sharma, Aishwarya S Iyer, and Kathleen Magramo, CNN October 27, 2023 at 4:34 AM
The Marshall Project reports on the evolving perception and status of the right for death penalty defendants to present mitigating evidence that could sway a jury.
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