India
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Indian legislative system also provides for different...
- News items in the archive
- 1,856
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
India is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 1,856 news items on India, from 1999 to today.
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APRIL 8, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR PUNE BUS DRIVER
A court in India has given the death penalty to a bus driver who killed nine people and injured
- APRIL 6, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF EIGHT DEATH ROW CONVICTS
The Supreme Court in India stayed the execution of eight death row convicts whose mercy
- APRIL 5, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a special CBI court here awarded death sentence to three policemen
a special CBI court here awarded death sentence to three policemen
APRIL 5, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: NEW, TOUGHER ANTI-RAPE BILL COMES INTO FORCE
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the anti-rape bill which details
- APRIL 3, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PRESIDENT REJECTS MERCY PETITION, HARYANA RAPE MURDER CONVICT DHARAMPAL TO BE HANGED NEXT WEEK
Dharampal, the Haryana rape convict who was released on parole and went on to murder
MARCH 31, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 99% OF DEATH SENTENCE PRISONERS ESCAPE GALLOWS
Lost in the cacophony of human rights activists protesting against death penalty after Parliament
- MARCH 28, 2013MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
the Federal Court in Malaysia uphold the conviction and death sentence on a female Indian national
the Federal Court in Malaysia uphold the conviction and death sentence on a female Indian national
- MARCH 25, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a tribal youth was sentenced to death by a court...
a tribal youth was sentenced to death by a court...
- MARCH 22, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
fast track court in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district sentenced a man to capital punishment
fast track court in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district sentenced a man to capital punishment
MARCH 22, 2013ItalyDEATH PENALTYINDIA: ITALIAN MARINES WON'T GET DEATH SENTENCE
Indian External affairs minister Salman Khurshid laid a statement on Italian marines in Lok
- MARCH 21, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE OVER 1993 MUMBAI BLASTS
India's top court upheld the death penalty for a mastermind of a series of bombings which killed
- MARCH 21, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ORPHANAGE FOUNDER GETS DEATH SENTENCE IN GIRLS' GANG RAPE CASE
Observing that the convict "was a menace to the society," a court in Mumbai awarded death sentence
MARCH 14, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR GIRL
In a fast-track trial, a man was sentenced to death by a court in India for raping and killing an
MARCH 8, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPIST
The Bombay High Court confirmed the death penalty to a 22-year-old youth from
MARCH 4, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: YOUTH GETS DEATH FOR RAPING & KILLING MINOR
Conducting a rape and murder trial in a short span of nine days, a court in Madhya Pradesh
- FEBRUARY 28, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a Bhiwani fast-track court sentenced two murder convicts to death penalty in an honour killing case.
a Bhiwani fast-track court sentenced two murder convicts to death penalty in an honour killing case.
FEBRUARY 25, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPING AND MURDERING MINOR GIRL
A court in Jabalpur, India, awarded death sentence to a man for raping and killing a seven year old
- FEBRUARY 24, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict on death row in connection...
Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict on death row in connection...
- FEBRUARY 24, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: RAPIST AWARDED DEATH PENALTY
In India, a 21-year-old man, who had raped and killed a three and a half-year-old girl on February
FEBRUARY 23, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC COMMUTES YOUTH’S DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE TERM
The Delhi High Court has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence given by a trial court
FEBRUARY 14, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: 1,455 DEATH PENALTIES IN 10 YEARS
In India, a total of 1,455 convicts were handed out death sentence in the past 10 years which
FEBRUARY 13, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PRESIDENT PRANAB REJECTS 7 MERCY PLEAS, A FIRST IN INDIA
Days after the hanging of Afzal Guru, President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy
FEBRUARY 11, 2013United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTYUAE: 17 INDIANS ON DEATH ROW PAY BLOOD MONEY, FREED
Seventeen Indians, who had been on death row in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the murder
FEBRUARY 9, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN EXECUTED IN ’01 PARLIAMENT ATTACK
India hanged a man who had been convicted of involvement in a 2001 attack on Parliament that killed nine people.
- FEBRUARY 8, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a man was handed capital punishment by an Indian court for the rape
a man was handed capital punishment by an Indian court for the rape
FEBRUARY 6, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: FIFTH BIHAR RAPIST, MURDERER GETS DEATH
A man who raped and murdered a minor girl four years ago was sentenced to death
FEBRUARY 5, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SUPREME COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO MAN WHO KIDNAPPED, KILLED TAMIL NADU BOY
The Supreme Court on India decided on the death sentence for a man convicted of
- FEBRUARY 5, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR 32-YR-OLD FOR RAPING, KILLING MINOR
A lower court in Mandla, India, awarded death sentence to a 32-year-old man for raping and
- FEBRUARY 3, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PRESIDENT MUKHERJEE APPROVES DEATH PENALTY IN SOME RAPE CASES
President of India Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the anti-rape law ordinance after cabinet ministers recommended changes to impose harsher punishments for rapists, including the death penalty.
- JANUARY 31, 2013IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 43-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPING, MURDERING MINOR
A local court in Badaun, India, pronounced death sentence to a man in a year-old rape