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Death sentencing needs reform, but is the Supreme Court’s focus off the mark?

Gale Andrew Lakshmi Menon
· Feb 28, 2023 · 09:00 am
Trial courts gave 165 death sentences last year – highest since 2000, shows report

Scroll Staff
· Jan 30, 2023 · 04:20 pm
The SC’s examination of death sentencing is the first step to a justice system aimed at redemption

CP Shruthi Baljeet Kaur
· Oct 20, 2022 · 07:30 am
UP: Four members of a family sentenced to death for killing their daughter, her lover in Badaun

Scroll Staff
· Sep 23, 2022 · 07:52 pm
SC upholds death sentence of man who raped and murdered minor girl with mental illness

Scroll Staff
· Jun 24, 2022 · 09:27 pm
Beant Singh assassination: SC directs Centre to decide on convict’s mercy plea in two months

Scroll Staff
· May 02, 2022 · 03:57 pm
Pakistan: Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan man on blasphemy allegations

Scroll Staff
· Apr 19, 2022 · 01:38 pm
Kulbhushan Jadhav has refused to file review plea against his death sentence, claims Pakistan

Scroll Staff
· Jul 08, 2020 · 04:03 pm
Should convicts on death row have the option to donate their organs? Watch this panel discussion

Scroll Staff
· Mar 04, 2020 · 11:56 am
2012 Delhi gangrape: Supreme Court dismisses convict’s petition for review of mercy plea

Scroll Staff
· Jan 29, 2020 · 10:56 am
2012 Delhi gangrape: Another convict files curative petition in SC challenging his execution

Scroll Staff
· Jan 29, 2020 · 09:04 am
Rohtak gangrape: Supreme Court stays execution of seven convicts, agrees to hear their pleas

Scroll Staff
· Jul 04, 2019 · 07:58 pm
SC acquits six people sentenced to death, asks Maharashtra government to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation

Scroll Staff
· Mar 06, 2019 · 10:53 am
2012 Delhi gangrape: Victim’s parents move court to fast-track death sentence of convicts

Scroll Staff
· Feb 14, 2019 · 05:56 pm
NIA court gives death sentence to two pro-Bodoland militants accused of killing tribals in 2014

Scroll Staff
· Sep 15, 2018 · 07:29 pm
Mandsaur case: Two convicts get death sentence for raping eight-year-old girl in June

Scroll Staff
· Aug 21, 2018 · 01:48 pm
Counterpoint: The President of India’s power to pardon is not an anachronism

Prashant Reddy
· Aug 01, 2017 · 12:30 pm
Kulbhushan Jadhav’s clemency appeal denied, says Pakistan Army

Scroll Staff
· Jul 16, 2017 · 05:00 pm
Pakistan is using death penalty as a political tool, says report

Scroll Staff
· Jul 07, 2017 · 10:26 pm
A look at what has happened in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case so far

Scroll Staff
· May 18, 2017 · 08:45 am