404 prisoners are on death row in India, with Uttar Pradesh leading the list

Since 2016, there has been a steady increase in the proportion of death penalty cases involving sexual offences.

Nidhi Jacob, Factchecker.in

· Feb 05, 2021 · 01:30 pm

As Delhi gangrape convicts await execution, a reminder: death penalty does not ensure women’s safety

India has an obsession with retributive and deterrent approaches and an increasing aversion to another goal of punishment – rehabilitation.

Gale Andrew

· Jan 31, 2020 · 02:30 pm

Pranab Mukherjee says he rejected Afzal Guru’s mercy petition based on government’s counsel: Report

During his tenure, the former president rejected 30 mercy petitions, including those of Guru, Ajmal Kasab and Yakub Menon.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 21, 2017 · 01:24 pm

Pakistan is using death penalty as a political tool, says study

The Justice Project Pakistan document said Islamabad had executed 44 people in 2017 so far.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 07, 2017 · 10:26 pm

Court sentences Esther Anuhya's rapist-murderer to death

The 29-year-old driver had pleaded for a life sentence, saying he was remorseful.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 30, 2015 · 02:46 pm

Death penalty: execution ballads were the news reports and tweets of a bloody era

People found out about crime and punishment in that most spectacular era of public executions, the Renaissance, through melody.

Una McIlvenna, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2015 · 06:50 am

Supreme Court allots less than five minutes to Yakub Memon's final appeal of his death sentence

Three of its senior-most judges are to evaluate on July 21 a 'curative' petition filed by the man convicted for his alleged role in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.

Jyoti Punwani

· Jul 20, 2015 · 09:07 am

On Thursday, Pakistan will hang a man accused of committing a crime when he was 14

Death sentence for Shafqat Hussein shows how Pakistan has become feverishly supportive of the death penalty.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

· Mar 18, 2015 · 08:30 am

The case against hanging Nithari's Surendra Koli

Surendra Koli's fate is sealed, but there are nine good reasons why he shouldn't be hanged.

Shivam Vij

· Oct 28, 2014 · 06:47 pm

Nine reasons not to hang alleged Nithari serial killer Surendra Koli

There's more than an iota of doubt that he could be innocent of the charges.

Shivam Vij

· Sep 17, 2014 · 05:15 am

Should India abolish the death penalty? The Law Commission wants the public to respond

By filling out a Law Commission questionnaire, every citizen can contribute to the debate on whether capital punishment should be scrapped.

Aarefa Johari

· Jun 23, 2014 · 06:35 am

'Do we want people to be executed in barbaric ways in our name?'

Supreme Court's decision to commute death sentences of 15 convicts hailed as international landmark by capital punishment opponent, Yug Chaudhry.

Sumana Ramanan

· Jan 22, 2014 · 07:51 am