In a conversation with Mr. Anup Surendranath, Director of Death Penalty Research Project and Death Penalty Litigation Clinic at NLU Delhi, we explore from an academic perspective the nuances of death penalty in India.
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Mr. Vikram Aditya Narayan,(NLIU Batch of 2013) currently works with Senior Advocate Raju Ramachandran and has been closely involved with litigation relating to death penalty in India. In this article he brings out the uncertainty in the application of the "rarest of rare" doctrine by the Indian courts.
By Surbhi Sharma and Alisha Mehra
In Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. Maharashtra[1], the Supreme Court expressed concerns about lack of a coherent and consistent purpose and basis for awarding death and granting clemency. Therefore, it asked the LCI[2] to examine whether death penalty is a deterrent punishment or whether it is retributive justice or serves an incapacitative goal. Another issue that was raised by the court was that while the standard followed by the judiciary for granting death penalty (the rarest of the rare principle) is known, the standard applied by the executive in granting commutation is not known which makes it imperative for the LCI to look into it, . [1] Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra, (2013) 5 SCC 546. Hereinafter, ‘Khade’. [2] Law Commission of India, hereinafter, ‘LCI’. By Soundarya Lahiri
“All lives matter”….. This is a universal principle recognized throughout the world irrespective of caste or creed, gender or sexuality or religion. But this does not seem to apply in case of Black’s whose lives are not considered worthy of good education, decent shelter or good living. Blacks are subjected to the most gruesome brutalities in America. One of such harsh punishments they are subjected to is death penalties. In the sphere of enforcement of capital punishment as well, the Blacks face a lot of discrimination. How far this aspect grows into a phenomenon is the subject matter of this paper. By Aishwarya Nair
A little over a year into President Joko Widodo’s tenure, the situational irony in Indonesia cannot be any more pronounced. Widodo, whose pre-election campaign pledged to champion human rights and focus,inter alia, on addressing past instances of human rights abuse and reforming the police[1] has gained greater publicity for an unprecedented rise in executions for drug-related crimes. Prior to Widodo, Indonesia had been gradually shifting towards curbing the use of death penalty. Executions had been put on hold; interventions resulted in 240 commutations between 2011 and 2014; and in 2012, Indonesia changed its position from 'against' to 'abstention' during voting on UN General Assembly resolutions supporting a moratorium on the use of the death penalty[2].In stark contrast to this, the fourteen executions in 2015 alone represent a regressive step completely nullifying all progress made towards abolition thus far. NOVEMBER 2015
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March 2016
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