As many as 165 prisoners had been reportedly sentenced to demise in 2022, the best yearly rise in twenty years. The variety of prisoners on demise row additionally elevated sharply from 490 in 2021 to 539 om 2022, based on the Annual Death Penalty Report, 2022.

The report was printed by Project 39A, an advocacy group related to the National Law University in Delhi.

According to the report, a bit over 98.3% of the demise penalty instances had been determined by trial courts. While High Courts throughout the nation determined 68 issues, the Supreme Court determined 11 issues.

The report additionally states that instances of sexual violence dominated the demise penalty imposition, accounting for nearly third of the capital punishment instances, experiences The Times of India.

“The shift in cases has been sharply influenced by the extraordinary sentencing of 38 persons to death in Ahmedabad in a single bomb blast case, representing the largest number of persons sentenced to death in a single case since 2016,” the report reads.

The report additionally says with 539 prisoners on demise row on the finish of 2022, there was a 40% improve since 2015 including the best variety of prisoners on demise row state smart embody – 100 in Uttar Pradesh, 61 in Gujarat and 46 in Jharkhand.

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