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Annual Death Penalty Report, 2022
February 2 , 2023
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- In 2022, Sessions Courts in India imposed 165 death sentence penalties.
- It is the highest number in a single year in two decades.
- This rise in figure can be attributed to the “extraordinary sentencing of 38 persons to death in Ahmedabad in a single bomb blast case.
- It was representing the largest number of persons sentenced to death in a single case since 2016.
- The report went on note that as on December 31, 2022 there were 539 prisoners on the death row.
- This making it the highest-ever number since 2016 when only 400 prisoners were facing the death sentence.
- The 2022 representing a 40% increase in the population since 2015.
- This information is part of the ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics 2022’ report.
- It is released by Project 39A, an advocacy group with the National Law University, Delhi.
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