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 29, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN TRIPLE MURDER CASE
- NOVEMBER 29, 2007United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
TWO FROM ANDHRA PRADESH SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UAE
TWO FROM ANDHRA PRADESH SENTENCED TO DEATH IN UAE
- NOVEMBER 27, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MERCY PLEAS DELAY COUPLE’S EXECUTION
a husband and wife on death row at the Ambala Central Jail in India had their execution stayed after filing a mercy petition with the President.
- NOVEMBER 22, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
at a local court in India...
at a local court in India, District and Sessions Judge GK Rai sentenced a man to death who was convicted of murdering his daughter and wife
- NOVEMBER 12, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: 'ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY POSSIBLE'
as the debate rages over the delay in the execution of Mohammed Afzal for his attacks on Parliament...
- NOVEMBER 3, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR RAPE & MURDER
District and Sessions Judge A M Vaidya, in Achalpur, Amravati district, India, sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a mentally-challenged minor girl.
- NOVEMBER 1, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: VASAI MURDER CASE: HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE FOR THREE
the Bombay High Court in India confirmed the death sentence awarded to three people in the 2004 Vasai murder case.
- OCTOBER 31, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. FORMER MP ANAND MOHAN APPEALS AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
former Lok Sabha member Anand Mohan appealed to the Patna High Court in India against the death sentence awarded to him in connection with the lynching of the then Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah nearly 13 years ago.
- OCTOBER 25, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER ACCUSED
in India, District and Sessions Judge K Somashekhar awarded capital punishment to Ramdas Alias Dasa Bommayya Nayak after convicting him two days earlier.
- OCTOBER 24, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
SCRAP DEATH PENALTY: EMINENT CITIZENS
SCRAP DEATH PENALTY: EMINENT CITIZENS
- OCTOBER 18, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE AND MURDER OF MINORS
a notorious criminal who killed three girls after raping them was awarded death sentence by the Bhavnagar Joint District Court in India.
- OCTOBER 10, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: BIHAR COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR MURDERING FATHER
a fast track court in Muzaffarpur district in Bihar, India, awarded the death penalty to a man for killing his own father, court sources said.
- OCTOBER 10, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DOMESTIC HELP GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
Vidya Shankar Patel, the Additional District Judge (IV) of Kanpur City in India...
- OCTOBER 10, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
LAW COMMISION: DOWRY DEATH DOESN’T DESERVE DEATH SENTENCE
LAW COMMISION: DOWRY DEATH DOESN’T DESERVE DEATH SENTENCE
- OCTOBER 5, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN GETS DEATH FOR TRIPLE MURDER
a court in Vadodara, India, sentenced a man to death in a triple murder case...
- OCTOBER 4, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: JUDGES DIFFER ON DEATH SENTENCE FOR UMESH REDDY
the Karnataka High Court in India delivered a split verdict on a lower court order sentencing notorious criminal Umesh Reddy to death for murder and rape.
- OCTOBER 3, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: PATNA COURT GRANTS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO ANAND MOHAN
the Patna Civil court in India awarded the death sentence to former parliamentarian Anand Mohan and his co-conspirators Bikramganj Akhlaq Ahmed and Arun Kumar Sinha for the lynching of Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah in 1994.
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: EXECUTION OF MURDER CONVICT STAYED
the execution of murder convict Ajay Kumar Pal, scheduled for early morning on September 27, was stayed after the Supreme Court admitted his special leave petition.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY INDIA LAUNCHES ONLINE CAMPAIGN FOR DEATH PENALTY BAN
the Indian branch of Amnesty International launched an online campaign seeking to ban the death penalty. The human rights watchdog also called on New Delhi to support the resolution for the Universal Moratorium on capital punishment to be presented at the
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH FOR RED FORT ACCUSED UPHELD
the Delhi High Court in India upheld the death sentence to Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Mohd Ashfaq in the seven year old Red Fort attack case.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: SERVANT TO BE HANGED FOR BURNING FIVE PEOPLE ALIVE
Ajay Pal, a domestic servant and resident of West Bengal, who killed five members of a Ranchi official's family four years ago was sentenced to be hanged on September 27 by the Jharkhand High Court in India.
- AUGUST 30, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR BURNING WIFE TO DEATH
a man was convicted by a fast track court in Mehsana, India, for killing his wife by setting her on fire.
- AUGUST 29, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HAWARA FILES APPEAL
the prime accused in the Beant Singh assassination case in India, Jagtar Singh Hawara, filed an appeal against his conviction and death sentence in the Punjab and Haryana High Court
- AUGUST 28, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: HIGH COURT UPHOLDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR MURDER
the Jharkhand High Court, India, upheld the death sentence awarded by a lower court to Ajay Kumar Pal for killing family members of the conservator of forest, Dhirendra Kumar, four years ago.
- AUGUST 27, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER ACCUSED RESERVED
the Bombay High Court in India reserved the order for the confirmation of death sentences awarded to three people in the 2004 Vasai murder case by the Palghar Sessions Court.
- AUGUST 22, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the High Court in Chhattisgarh, India...
the High Court in Chhattisgarh, India...
- AUGUST 20, 2007Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIANS ON DEATH ROW SEEK PARDON
two Indian nationals sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges in Saudi Arabia appealed to King Abdullah for clemency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
- AUGUST 18, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCES FOR SIX IN PATNA FOR KIDNAPPING
ADJ Ram Pravesh Sharma, at a fast track court in Patna, India, awarded capital punishment to six people for kidnapping and murdering a 13 year old schoolboy.
- AUGUST 10, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Supreme Court in India severely castigated the Allahabad High Court..
the Supreme Court in India severely castigated the Allahabad High Court...
- AUGUST 10, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
the Indian Supreme Court commuted Kulwinder Singh’s death sentence to life imprisonment.
the Indian Supreme Court commuted Kulwinder Singh’s death sentence to life imprisonment.