Highest Death Sentence In Two Decades 2022 By Trial Courts Every Third Prisoner Sexual Crime Capital Punishment In India

Highest Death Sentence In Two Decades 2022 By Trial Courts Every Third Prisoner Sexual Crime Capital Punishment In India

Death Sentence: Last year, trial courts across the country have awarded death sentence to 165 people. This figure for the year 2022 has been the highest in the last two decades. Earlier in the year 2021, 146 people were sentenced to death. It is shocking that every third person who gets death sentence is related to sexual crimes. From the year 2015 to 2022, the number of people sentenced to death has increased by 40 percent. According to the report ‘The Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics 2022’, the increase…

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