Capital punishment in India
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Capital punishment in India
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Capital punishment in India is a legal penalty for some crimes under the country's main substantive penal legislation, the Indian Penal Code, as well as other laws. Executions are carried out by hanging as the primary method of execution per Section 354(5) of the Criminal Code of Procedure, 1973 is "Hanging by the neck until dead", and is imposed only in the 'rarest of cases'. Currently, there are around 539 prisoners on death row in India. The most recent executions in India took place in March
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_India
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2005-02-11T14:39:31Z
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2024-09-09T08:58:34Z
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