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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FEBRUARY 11, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR KILLING 6-YR-OLD GIRL AFTER RAPE
A Delhi court has awarded death penalty to a man who killed a six-and-half-year-
FEBRUARY 10, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY OF THREE FOR 2003 MUMBAI BLASTS
The Bombay high court upheld death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted
FEBRUARY 9, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: PRESIDENT PATIL COMMUTED DEATH PENALTY OF 23 TO LIFE DURING HER TENURE
President Pratibha Patil accepted the clemency petition of Sushil Murmu, pending
FEBRUARY 7, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: SC SAVES FROM GALLOWS MAN WHO BEHEADED HIS MOTHER
In India, the Supreme Court reduced to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed
- FEBRUARY 5, 2012United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: MURDERERS SPARED THE DEATH SENTENCE
two murderers were spared execution in UAE when a court commuted their death
FEBRUARY 1, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: NO MANDATORY GALLOWS FOR KILLING WITH ILLEGAL ARMS - APEX COURT
In India, the Supreme Court held that Section 27(3) of the Arms Act, 1959 that provides
JANUARY 30, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAHENDRA
In India, the Gauhati high court upheld its previous order of a death sentence for murder convict
- JANUARY 28, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY IN DRUG CASE FOR THE FIRST TIME
in the first ever case of capital punishment in a drug crime, a special Narcotics
JANUARY 24, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDERING FIVE
Describing the act of a 40-year-old man, who murdered five persons under the influence
JANUARY 18, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: DEATH SENTENCE TO FIVE DANDUPALYA GANG MEMBERS
34th Special Sessions Court sentenced five members of a notorious Dandupalya gang
- JANUARY 14, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PORTUGAL: EXTRADITION TREATY WITH INDIA VIOLATED IN ABU SALEM'S CASE
Portugal's Supreme Court has rejected a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appeal against
- JANUARY 10, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN RAPE AND MURDER CASE
A man was awarded capital punishment in Uttar Pradesh (India), in a 12-year old rape
- JANUARY 9, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: ONE GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING FIVE DALITS
A court in Fatehpur, India, sentenced one person to death and two others to life imprisonment
- JANUARY 5, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
five persons were sentenced to death by an Indian local
five persons were sentenced to death by an Indian local
- JANUARY 4, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
an official said that a court in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh
an official said that a court in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh
- JANUARY 1, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by the Penal Code and by Art. 21 of the Constitution which states
The death penalty is provided for by the Penal Code and by Art. 21 of the Constitution which states
- DECEMBER 27, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO GET DEATH BY HANGING
in India, Junagadh Additional Sessions judge G M Patel sentenced Mohan Hamir and Mahesh Chauhan to death for killing Chandni Vinjvadia, 15, on May 13, 2007.
- DECEMBER 23, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MP MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING PARENTS, NEPHEW
Shyam Singh, alias Bhima, was sentenced to death by First Class Additional Sessions Judge Mahesh Bhadkariya for killing his father Suram, mother Sahoda Bai and nephew Amans when his parents refused to give him money to buy liquor.
- DECEMBER 22, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Rasheed, a native of Meenangadi in Wayanad, was sentenced to death by the Ernakulam Principal Sessions court in India for hacking Bindu, 39, to death while attempting to rob her in Pachalam in Kochi.
DECEMBER 22, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BILL PROVIDING FOR DEATH SENTENCE FOR SABOTAGE OF PIPELINES PASSED
Parliamentary approval was accorded in India to a bill that makes acts of terrorism aimed
- DECEMBER 21, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
in an effort to secure the strategically important...
in an effort to secure the strategically important...
- DECEMBER 20, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE
in India, Justices M Jaichandren and S Nagamuthu of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court commuted the death sentence of Anbarasu to life imprisonment and fined him Rs 60000.
- DECEMBER 15, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: JHARKHAND HC ACQUITS CHILKARI DEATH ROW CONVICTS
in India, division bench of Justices R K Merathia and D N Upadhyay of the Jharkhand High Court acquitted four men on death row due to lack of evidence
- DECEMBER 12, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BOMBAY HIGH COURT DEFERS JUDGEMENT ON DEATH SENTENCE IN 2003 BLASTS CASE
a Division Bench of Justice A M Khanwilkar and Justice P D Kode of the Bombay High Court in India deferred its judgement on the death sentences of Ashrat Ansari, 32, his aide Hanif Sayed Anees, 46, and Hanif's wife Fehmida Sayed, 43.
- DECEMBER 6, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
GUJARAT (INDIA): DEATH PENALTY INTRODUCED FOR TOXIC ALCOHOL
The illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol in the western Indian state of Gujarat
- DECEMBER 3, 2011Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA: ASIAN GANG MEMBERS GET DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER
Qayan, Isk and Parshan were sentenced to death by a three-judge panel of the Jeddah General Court for the murder and robbery of a real estate agent in Jeddah in 2007.
- DECEMBER 1, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
PAKISTAN: INDIAN PRISONER’S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED, LHC TOLD
the superintendent of the Lahore Central Jail informed the Lahore High Court that Indian prisoner Surjit Singh was sent to the jail in 1985 as a condemned prisoner but now he is being treated as life imprisonment convict in the light of the general amnest
- NOVEMBER 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PETITION IN HIGH COURT AGAINST DEATH PENALTY
in Kochi, India, lawyer Manju Antoney lodged a petition with the Kerala high court challenging the death penalty.
- NOVEMBER 28, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO TO HANG FOR TRIPLE MURDER
in India, the Jhajjar Additional Sessions court sentenced Ajayveer, alias Toni, of Jassaurkheri village, and Jairam, alias Baba, of Mundka village, to death for murder.
- NOVEMBER 25, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MINOR'S DEATH PENALTY SET ASIDE
holding that he was a minor at the time of commission of offence, the Madurai bench of the Madras high court in India, Justice M Jaichandren and Justice S Nagamuthu...