The ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics’ attempts to create a comprehensive year-by-year documentation of changes in the death row population in India. The publication tracks important political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system in the year 2020.
Total number of Prisoners on Death Row as on 31st December 2020
Total number of Prisoners on Death Row as on 31st December 2019
Our publication covers movements in the death row population in India as well as political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty and the criminal justice system. The statistics are compiled through a combination of processes such as data mining of court websites, media monitoring and Right to Information applications.
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You can access the previous reports as well [2019] [2018] [2017] [2016].
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Mukesh, Akshay Kumar Singh, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Kumar were executed on 20th March 2020 for the gangrape and murder of a woman in Delhi in December 2012. The last execution prior to this was the execution of Yakub Memon in July 2015.
The Maharashtra Cabinet approved a Bill to introduce death penalty for non-homicidal rape of adult women and acid attacks, which has been referred to a joint select committee of the Legislative Assembly. The Andhra Pradesh legislature passed an amended version of a similar bill, first introduced in December 2019, with the death penalty clause for such offences since excluded. The bill is now awaiting Presidential assent.