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  1. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

  2. Apr 2, 2022 · This article is a detailed analysis of the death sentence in India and the categories of offences that come under its purview. The death penalty has long been a contentious issue, based on the deterrence principle of punishment.

  3. Aug 31, 2007 · Death Sentence: Directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Jordan Garrett. Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever.

  4. What is capital punishment in India? Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is awarded in the rarest of rare cases. Section 354 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides a method to execute the death penalty, i.e., "Hanging by the neck until dead." Recently, the convicts of the Nirbhaya case were hanged until death in Tihar Jail.

  5. Apr 20, 2019 · A death sentence is a legal process where a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime committed by him. The judicial decree that someone should be punished in this manner is called a death sentence, while the actual process of killing the person is called an execution.

  6. Jul 15, 2020 · What happens once the death sentence is passed by a judge of the Sessions Court? Sections 366-371 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 deals with the ‘Submission of death sentences for confirmation’.

  7. According to Death Penalty in India (2022) report, the trial courts across the country imposed 165 death sentences in 2022, which is the highest in a single year in the last two decades. Death Penalty in India Report is published by Project 39A, a criminal law reforms advocacy group based in New Delhi.