Justice demands that courts should impose punishment befitting the crime so that the courts reflect public abhorrence of the crime. Justices A.S. Anand and N.P. Singh, Supreme Court of India ...

Everyone thinks human life is valuable. Some of those against capital punishment believe that human life is so valuable that even the worst murderers should not be deprived of the value of their ...

Some have taken it upon themselves to thrash and abuse Muslims for praying in public — as a uniformed officer did recently in the national capital ... steps signal that India, like most ...

Other nations have much higher rates of capital punishment than India, with four countries accounting for most of the recorded executions in 2018. But globally, the number of executions has been ...

India plans to overhaul its criminal sentencing norms to counter accusations of arbitrary punishment, sources said, following ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called for ‘capital punishment within three months’ amid furore over the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. The Calcutta High Court on Sunday ...

Junior doctors in Kolkata are demanding strict action from the CBI and capital punishment for those involved in the rape and murder of a student at RG Kar Medical College. They continue to protest ...

There was a sharp rise in the number of known executions carried out around the world in 2023 – a 31% increase on the previous year and the most since 2015. Amnesty International compiles the ...

It discriminates against Black prospective jurors, women, and people of individual faiths that oppose capital punishment. Our fight against death qualification is just one piece of our upcoming ...

including capital punishment in exceptional cases. The maximum jail term under the current law is upto five years. It also plans setting up special courts and assigning more powers to police to ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...