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One of India’s most notorious serial killers is a Malayali fisherman who was put behind bars two decades ago for murdering seven people. Authorities nearly executed him a few years back. But did he truly kill them all? ....
Indian courts in 2022 awarded a record 165 death sentences, the highest in over two decades, according to the Annual Death Penalty Report published by Project 39A, an advocacy group with the National Law University, New Delhi.
In total, 539 prisoners were on death row at the end of the year which was the largest population for the same since 2004. ....
65% of Death Sentences in 2020 Involved Sexual Violence Cases: Report In 48% of the total death sentences delivered in cases related to sexual violence in 2020, the victims were below the age of 12. As of December 31, 2020, 404 prisoners have been sentenced to death. Photo: Reuters Rights24/Jan/2021 Mumbai: As soon as India went under a strict lockdown in March last year, the judiciary’s functioning was one of the first things to be impacted. For several months the courts had to suspend their work entirely and when it resumed, it was only to handle âurgent mattersâ. The delay in the disposal of cases led to relatively lesser number of death sentences imposed by trial courts as compared to the past years. ....