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#India-WHIPLASH: Capital punishment as a joke #deathpenalty

By ABHISHEK BHALLA PUBLISHED: 21:41 GMT, 25 October 2012 | , MailonlineIndia The home ministry’s decision to recommend to the President that Mumbai attacker Kasab‘s mercy petition be rejected will fool a few into believing that the mass killer will be executed soon…. Continue Reading →

The Sons of Men – #delhigangrape #vaw #mustread

December 23, 2012 MUMBAI Paromita Vohra, Mid-Day I wonder if all those who are demanding capital punishment for rape, will stop evading their taxes if tax evasion is made punishable by death. Demanding capital punishment, especially in the case of a… Continue Reading →

#India- a ray of hope for Afzal, other death-row prisoners

V. VENKATESAN , The Hindu, New Delhi Dec 17, 2012 The HinduA recent Supreme Court ruling could make the government give the benefit of the doubt to 14 death-row convicts including Afzal Guru. File photo Supreme Court ruling gives the… Continue Reading →

Abolish death penalty in India, Pakistan: Burney

Vishal Joshi, Hindustan Times Karnal, December 13, 2012 Former Pakistan federal minister and human rights activist Ansar Burney has advocated a complete abolition on awarding capital punishment. Interacting with the reporters here on Wednesday evening, Burney said that death sentence… Continue Reading →

The Death Lottery- case against #deathpenalty

The Death Lottery The case against capital punishment BY Jatin Gandhi , Open Magazine The Supreme Court admitted on three different occasions, between 2009 and 2011, that it had erred in applying the ‘rarest of the rare’ doctrine laid down by its… Continue Reading →

Done to Death -Politics of punishment #deathpenalty

Manoj Mitta | November  2012, Times Crest     The higher the penalty, the greater the rigor that the courts are expected to display in arriving at the decision. It is however hard to apply this principle, ironically enough, to the highest… Continue Reading →

Abolition of Death Penalty – A Time for National Reflection: PUCL

November 23, 2012   by Kafila This release was put out yesterday by the PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES The secretive and stealthy hanging of Ajmal Kasab in Pune’s Yerwada Prison yesterday, 21st November, 2012, brings to an end the legal process involved… Continue Reading →

World Medical Association strengthens opposition to capital punishment #deathpenalty

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012 The World Medical Association has strengthened its opposition to capital punishment with a resolution at its recent conference in Bangkok that “physicians will not facilitate the importation or prescription of drugs for execution.” It also reaffirmed… Continue Reading →

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