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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Study by Project 39A: ‘65% death penalties by trial courts linked to sexual crimes… highest in 5 years’ -Apurva Vishwanath

Study by Project 39A: ‘65% death penalties by trial courts linked to sexual crimes… highest in 5 years’ -Apurva Vishwanath

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published Published on Jan 24, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 24, 2021

-The Indian Express

Since 2016, the share of sexual crimes in the list of crimes for which trial courts are imposing death penalty has been steadily increasing. From 17.6 per cent in 2016, it jumped to 37.27 per cent in 2017, 41.1 per cent in 2018 and 53.39 per cent in 2019.

New Delhi: Corresponding to the legislative expansion of death penalty for sexual crimes against women, more than 65 per cent of all death sentences imposed by trial courts were linked to such cases in 2020, the annual study in death penalty in India by Project 39A — a criminal laws advocacy group with the National Law University in Delhi — has found.

Since 2016, the share of sexual crimes in the list of crimes for which trial courts are imposing death penalty has been steadily increasing. From 17.6 per cent in 2016, it jumped to 37.27 per cent in 2017, 41.1 per cent in 2018 and 53.39 per cent in 2019.

Released on January 20, the report found that though the number of death sentences went down to 77 in 2020 from 102 sentences in the previous year, 50 of the 77 sentences involved crimes of sexual violence.

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The Indian Express, 24 January, 2021, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/study-by-project-39a-65-death-penalties-by-trial-courts-linked-to-sexual-crimes-highest-in-5-years-7159207/


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