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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- NOVEMBER 23, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: AJMAL KASAB HANDED DOWN DEATH SENTENCE
Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab was handed down the death sentence for his role in the 26
- NOVEMBER 19, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: TWO GET DEATH SENTENCE
in Azamgarh, India, Additional District and Sessions judge Budhiram Yadav sentenced Piyaro Akbalpur village residents Ram Autar and Arvind to death for raping and killing Poonam Devi, 16, after beating her father Chandradhari to death on July 19, 2009.
- NOVEMBER 16, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY TO EIGHT IN TRIPLE MURDER
A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, India, awarded capital punishment to eight
- NOVEMBER 4, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: FOUR WHO ESCAPED DEATH ROW RETURN HOME FROM SHARJAH
four of the seventeen Indian nationals sentenced to death in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates for murdering Pakistani national Misri Nazir Khan in 2009 arrived home following the payment of blood money.
- NOVEMBER 2, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: KERALA COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
the Kochi CBI Special Court in India sentenced Jayanandan, 39, from Mala in Thrissur District, to death for the murder of Devaki, a 51-year-old housewife. Jayanandan allegedly attacked Devaki and her husband in Puthenvelikkara and robbed them of gold orna
- NOVEMBER 1, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC STAYS MAHENDRA HANGING, AGAIN
the Gawahati high court in India again deferred Mahendra Das's hanging till December 14 as the Centre is yet to submit the affidavit regarding the delay in Das' mercy petition that was requested earlier.
- OCTOBER 28, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: FOUR GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR 'HONOUR KILLING'
in Faridkot, India, District and Sessions Judge Fatehdeep Singh sentenced four cousins to death for killing a 26-year-old man on September 20, 2009, for marrying one of the girls of their family.
- OCTOBER 18, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: COURT UPHOLDS GALLOWS FOR MURDER
in India, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, comprising justices Hardas and Deshmukh, upheld the death sentence of Anil alias Anthony Arick Swamy Joseph, 35.
- OCTOBER 17, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR 4 FOR MURDERING 10 PEOPLE IN 2003
a division bench of Justices BH Marlapalle and Abhay Thipsay of the Bombay High Court in India upheld the death sentences awarded to Santosh Manohar Chavhan, Amit Ashok Shinde
- OCTOBER 14, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MALAYSIA FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Indian national Abu Baker Siddiq Abdul Kader, 29, was sentenced to death by the Malaysian High Court for possessing 710 grams of Ketamine and other illicit drugs at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on August 6, 2010. He was also sentenced to a year
- OCTOBER 10, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SUPREME COURT STAYS AJMAL KASAB’S DEATH SENTENCE
the Indian Supreme Court stayed the execution of 26/11 terror attack accused and Pakistani national Ajmal Amir Kasab and admitted his appeal against his death penalty.
- OCTOBER 8, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: LAWYER GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE
in Jammu, India, Principal Sessions Judge Jammu Jang Bhadur Singh...
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC REDUCES DEATH PENALTY TO LIFE TERM
the Indian Supreme Court commuted the death sentence issued by the Bombay High Court to Sham Kishor Bhaskarrao Matkari to life imprisonment, finding it was not in the rarest of the rare category.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: INDIAN NATIONAL TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Malaysian High Court Justice Datuk Wira Mohtarudin Baki sent Indian national Munuswamy Sundar
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY OF CHILD KILLER
the Indian Supreme Court commuted the death sentence imposed on Rajesh Kumar for murdering to life imprisonment.
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC SEEKS EXPLANATION FOR DELAY IN DECIDING BHULLAR'S MERCY PLEA
the Indian Supreme Court sought an explanation from the Union government for delay of more than 8 years in deciding the mercy petition filed by the Punjab militant Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar who is facing death sentence for killing 9 security personnel in
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC TO CONFIRM DEATH PENALTIES OF 1996 BLAST CONVICTS
in India, police sought confirmation from the Delhi High Court of the death sentence awarded to three Jammu Kashmir Islamic Front militants for their involvement in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast that killed 13 people.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
LAHORE HIGH COURT DISMISSES PLEA TO STOP SARABJIT'S POSSIBLE CLEMENCY
in Pakistan, the Lahore high court dismissed the petition filed by Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi contending that the President of Pakistan could not commute the death sentence of Indian national Sarabjit Singh into life imprisonment.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DUBAI MURDER CASE: HC MOVED FOR DEATH PENALTY AFFIRMATION
the special CBI court in India sent the death penalty of domestic helper Ravji Manu Pawar, 53, for killing five members of a family in Dubai, for confirmation to the Gujarat high court. Pawar joined Ramesh Sagar's family at Dubai as domestic help in 1980.
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH ROW CONVICT GETS REPRIEVE
in India, the Gauhati High Court stayed the execution of Mahendra Nath Das till November 1.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: EXISTENCE OF DEATH PENALTY WARRANTS IMPOSITION IN SOME CASES – SC
the Indian Supreme Court ruled that the court's failure to impose capital punishment for heinous
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2011United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: INDIANS ON SHARJAH DEATH ROW TO WALK FREE
seventeen Indians who are on death row in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, for murdering
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MP HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE
in India, a division bench of Justices Mishra and Shrivastava upheld the death sentence awarded of Maganlal for axing to death his family over a land dispute.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: COURT AWARDS DEATH TO FIVE MEMBERS OF FAMILY
Five members of a family have been awarded death sentence by an indian court in a case of
AUGUST 31, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: OVER 20 DEATH ROW CONVICTS AWAIT FINAL WORD ON THEIR MERCY PLEAS
as of today there are 22 death row convicts waiting for a final word from the Indian president
AUGUST 30, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: HIGH COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF RAJIV GANDHI'S KILLERS
The Madras High Court in southern India has stayed the executions of three men convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
- AUGUST 19, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR MAN FOR KILLING FAMILY OF 5 IN DUBAI
at a special CBI court in Ahmedabad, India, R M Parmar sentenced Ravji Pawar, 53, a resident of Dholar village in Navsari district, to death for killing five members of a family in Dubai in 1992.
- AUGUST 18, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR MURDER
the Darjeeling sessions court in India sentenced Amar Rai, 37, to death for killing his mother on November 19, 2006, inside the Darjeeling jail compound where she worked, allegedly because he wanted her government job. Amar was also fined Rs 5,000.
- AUGUST 17, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Parliament of India) was informed...
the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Parliament of India) was informed...
- AUGUST 11, 2011IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PRESIDENT REJECTS MERCY PLEA
Indian President Pratibha Patil rejected the clemency petitions of Murugan...