Trial courts in India passed 165 death sentences in 2022 – the highest in a single year since 2000, a report by criminal reforms advocacy group Project 39A showed.
The criminal justice system that periodically, fails the accused by keeping them in custody for decades, eventually acquitting them after years, often on death row, in such a system is it really possible to prevent unlawful death sentences?
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemned the execution today of four men who were convicted of raping and murdering a 23-year-old student in December 2012.