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
- 1,857
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 1,857 news items on India, from 1999 to today.
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- JULY 29, 2008United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: TWO INDIAN MEN SPARED DEATH ROW IN SHARJAH
in a major reprieve in the United Arab Emirates, a Sharjah court pardoned two Indian migrant workers.
- JULY 25, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF 5 YEAR OLD
the Indian Supreme Court sentenced a man, identified as Bantu, to death for raping and murdering a five year old girl and attempting to cover up the crime as an accident.
- JULY 22, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Indian Supreme Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Swami Shardanand
the Indian Supreme Court commuted the death sentence awarded to Swami Shardanand
- JULY 9, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
in Thrissur, India, District Sessions Judge B Kamalpasha...
in Thrissur, India, District Sessions Judge B Kamalpasha...
- JUNE 30, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court...
the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court...
- JUNE 30, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a local fast track court of Govind Prasad Singh...
a local fast track court of Govind Prasad Singh...
- JUNE 29, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. ‘JUDGES SHOULD NOT BE LENIENT WHILE DEALING WITH GRAVE CRIMES’
Judges should not be lenient while sentencing those who have committed
- JUNE 28, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a local fast track court in Aurangabad...
a local fast track court in Aurangabad...
- JUNE 26, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Qatar Court of Appeals upheld the verdict...
the Qatar Court of Appeals upheld the verdict...
- JUNE 18, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a local fast track court in Buxar...
a local fast track court in Buxar...
- JUNE 14, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a court in Panchkula, India...
a court in Panchkula, India...
- JUNE 11, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the chief investigator of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv..
the chief investigator of the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv...
- JUNE 11, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINOR
a local court in Coimbatore convicted and sentenced a 34-year-old man to capital punishment for the rape and murder...
- JUNE 10, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney found another...
leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney found another...
- JUNE 9, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. TWO CPI (MAIOST) REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two CPI (Maoist) rebels were sentenced to death by a fast track court in
- JUNE 8, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: AFZAL 'SICK' OF DELAY IN DEATH PENALTY
on death row for the last three years, India's most controversial convict, Mohammed Afzal, wants a speedy conclusion to his ordeal.
- JUNE 7, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH FOR MAN WHO TORCHED 8 PEOPLE TO DEATH
in India, Additional District Judge RN Chand sentenced 65 year old Farookh alias Nana alias Bashir alias Rauf to death torching eight people to death
- JUNE 5, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
a 45 year old man, Sonahar Ali, a resident of Karimganj district, was
a 45 year old man, Sonahar Ali, a resident of Karimganj district, was
- JUNE 3, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: JUDGES SAY NO TO DEATH
most judges of the Calcutta High Court in India want the death sentence to be abolished.
- JUNE 2, 2008ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA: TWO INDIANS FACE DEATH IN CHINA FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS
two Indian Tamils, one a native of Thanjavur and the other from Ramanathapuram, were sentenced to death by a Chinese court for narcotics smuggling.
- MAY 31, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PERINJANAM CASE: DEATH PENALTY FOR ACCUSED
Principal Sessions judge V. Kamal Pasha sentenced Jayanandan, alias Jayan, 39, to death by hanging in the Perinjanam double murder case in India.
- MAY 30, 2008United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE. FORMER INMATE SAVES TWO FRIENDS FROM DEATH ROW
an Indian and a Sri Lankan were saved from death row in the United Arab Emirates by
- MAY 28, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA AFTER 13 YRS, BHAGALPUR READIES HANGMAN NOOSE
the Bhagalpur Central Jail in India will be witnessing its first execution in 13 years.
- MAY 22, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: WE ARE STUDYING THE DEATH PENALTY: NHRC CHIEF
the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is independently studying the validity of the death penalty in India, says its chief, Justice (Retd) S. Rajendra Babu
- MAY 21, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEEK AFZAL GURU'S RELEASE
several Indian civil liberties and democratic rights organisations sought the immediate release of Mohammed Afzal Guru, who was falsely implicated in the Indian parliament attack case on December 13, 2001, and awarded capital punishment.
- MAY 18, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE IN HIGHWAY MURDER CASE
the first accused in the sensational Kanichukulangara highway triple murder case that rocked Kerala in 2005 was sentenced to death
- MAY 16, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CHILD MURDER AND RAPE
the Indian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for the rape and murder of two minors in December 1999 in Satara district of Maharashtra.
- MAY 14, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR ACCUSED IN MULTIPLE CAB DRIVER MURDERS
in India, Additional Sessions Judge Balbir Singh awarded the death sentence to a man accused
- MAY 12, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE OF SIXTH MUMBAI BLAST CONVICT SUSPENDED
the Indian Supreme Court temporarily suspended the capital punishment awarded to a convict for killing 88 people during the 1993 serial bombings in Mumbai.
- MAY 7, 2008IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER
the Orissa High Court in India upheld a death sentence awarded by a lower court and confirmed the conviction terming it as “rarest of the rare” incident.