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.
Latest news
- MAY 7, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA SUPREME COURT STAYS DEATH SENTENCE IN TANDOOR MURDER
India's Supreme Court ordered a stay on the death sentence of a former politician who shot his unfaithful wife and then burnt the body in the oven of a New Delhi restaurant in 1995.
- MAY 7, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE IN BIHAR
a fast track court in Bihar, India, has sentenced Lalan Singh to capital punishment for killing three people.
- APRIL 27, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA DEATH SENTENCE FOR 'WITCH' KILLER
an Orissa court in India sentenced a man to death here for killing two "witches".
- APRIL 17, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA MAN AWARDED DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
in Jalandhar, India, Additional District and Sessions Judge Karnail Singh found Sushil Kumar guilty of murder and sentenced him to death
- APRIL 13, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA THREE AWARDED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Additional district sessions judge D. Krishna Raja awarded capital punishment to Loganathan, 44, Sankar, 25, and Abdul Rehman, 32, for murdering silver merchant Mohan Rao, 50, his wife Sheela, 37, and son Prabhu, 13.
- APRIL 9, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA SERVANT GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER
a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in India awarded the death penalty to Ajay Kumar Pal, a domestic aide of Jharkhand Industry director Dhirendra Kumar, for killing Pal's wife Amita Sinha, their son and three other minor children three
- APRIL 5, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA DEATH SENTENCE FOR TWO GANGSTERS
the MP High Court's principal bench in Jabalpur awarded the death penalty to Mukhtar Malik and Asif Mamu, and life imprisonment to nine others in a 1996 murder case.
- MARCH 26, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA UTTAR PRADESH COURT AWARDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
the District and Sessions Court of Lakhimpur-Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, India, awarded the death sentence to Pawan Mittal, alias Monu, for murder.
- MARCH 25, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING MINOR NEPHEWS
in India, Judge Narottam Kaushal awarded capital punishment to Rajesh Kumar, 43, for killing the sons of his brother-in-law after being refused a loan by their father.
- MARCH 24, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. ONE GETS DEATH SENTENCE IN HUMAN SACRIFICE CASE
the fast track court of Hazaribag awarded the death sentence to Mahavir Razak and life imprisonment to three others for human sacrifice.
- MARCH 12, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
an Additional Sessions Court in India awarded the death sentence to Sebastian, a man found guilty of sexually abusing and murdering a two year old girl in Pozhiyoor.
- MARCH 2, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. BSF CONSTABLE GETS DEATH SENTENCE
a head un of the Border Security Force has been sentenced to death for murdering two officers of the force at Rajnagar border outpost last year.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. SOLDIER ON DEATH ROW
a soldier, Sepoy Suresh Chandra Behera of 28 Rashtriya Rifles, was sentenced to death by a court martial in Jammu and Kashmir, according to an army headquarters source.
- FEBRUARY 26, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MAN SENTECED TO DEATH FOR RAPE MURDER
a man identified as Packi, alias Packianathan, of Shenbaganur in Kodaikanal, India, was sentenced to death.
- FEBRUARY 19, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
DELHI HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY
the Delhi High Court in India upheld the death penalty for Sushil Sharma in the tandoor murder case.
- FEBRUARY 19, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MAN GETS DEATH FOR MURDER, RAPE OF 9-YEAR-OLD
a local court, in India, sentenced a 30 year old man, identified as Bablu, to death for raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl. He was also fined Rs 10,000.
- FEBRUARY 16, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH PENALTY FOR BULANDSHAHAR CHILD-RAPIST
an Indian fast track court has awarded the death penalty to a man for raping and murdering a three-year-old girl in the Bulandshahar District of Uttar Pradesh.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
HARYANA-BASED COUPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
the Indian Supreme Court sentenced a Haryana-based couple to death for murdering seven members of a family over a property dispute.
- FEBRUARY 15, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
3RD WOMAN ON DEATH ROW
the first case of a woman being hanged in independent India could happen soon.
- FEBRUARY 13, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
2 YOUTHS GET DEATH PENALTY
the Indian Supreme Court sentenced two friends to death, both aged 22, for raping and murdering their 18-year-old neighbour six years ago.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
RANSOM KILLERS GET DEATH
a fast-track court sentenced four people to death for the murder of a lawyer's son for ransom in 2003 but acquitted two others.
- JANUARY 29, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE FOR RAPE, MURDER
a local court has convicted and sentenced a 25-year-old youth to death for raping a minor girl and murdering her two years ago, on the basis of circumstantial evidence.
- JANUARY 29, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
HC CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCE OF ONE, ACQUITS 2 IN DEATH ROW
the Indian High Court confirmed the death sentence of a MA Kader and life imprisonment of his wife Runa Kader, but acquitted his two brothers-in-law.
- JANUARY 25, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
FIRST-EVER DEATH PENALTY AWARDED IN HISTORY OF RR DISTRICT COURTS
the death sentence of Chandrabhushan Upadhyay, for killing railway top official B.R.
- JANUARY 18, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MEN CHARGED WITH BARNALI KILLING SPARED NOOSE
the Indian Supreme Court has commuted the capital punishment of two convicts to life terms in the sensational Barnali Deb rape-and-murder case.
- JANUARY 11, 2007IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA, PORTUGAL SIGN EXTRADITION TREATY
India and Portugal signed an extradition treaty, despite Portuguese objections to the death penalty which exists in India. Portugal, a pioneer in the abolition of the death penalty, abolished death penalty for all crimes, including those of a military nat
- JANUARY 1, 2007IndiaDEATH 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 23, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 7-YR-OLD
an Additional District and Sessions court in New Delhi, India, sentenced to death Jiya Lal, an ice-cream vendor...
- DECEMBER 21, 2006IndiaDEATH PENALTY
INDIA. THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING TEENAGER
two men and a woman were sentenced to death by a court in Hoshiarpur, India, for murdering a 16-year-old schoolboy on February 14, 2005.
- DECEMBER 20, 2006Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. INDIAN NATIONAL SPARED DEATH SENTENCE
an Indian national from Kerala, who was reportedly facing death sentence in Saudi Arabia, was set free due to the timely intervention of the Indian authorities.