Capital Punishment In India

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In since 1993 when Kartik Sil and Sukumar Burman were hanged. {Link without Title}

In 2005, there were about a dozen people on the country's Death Row . Many levels of appeals are available through different courts and India allows state governors and the president to grant Clemency .

The death penalty is to be used in the "rarest of rare" cases according to the Supreme Court Of India , although the meaning of this phrase is not clearly defined. Capital punishment can be imposed for Murder , instigating a child's Suicide , Treason , acts of Terrorism , or a second conviction for Drug Trafficking .

The death penalty is usually carried out by Hanging . After a 1983 challenge to this method, the Supreme Court ruled that hanging did not involve torture, barbarity, humiliation or degradation.

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