Death penalty in India, annual figures 2019 _The fourth edition of Death Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics (Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics) was published by Project 39A of National Law University (NLU) in Delhi, Annual Statistics ._ _ *‼ ️ Main conclusion: -‼ ️ * _ Investigation courts in India awarded 102 death sentences in 2019. This number is 60% less than the 162 death sentences passed in 2018. However, the death penalty ratio for murders involved in sexual offenses was at a four-year high of 52.94% (54 out of 102 conviction cases) in 2019. 192019 also saw the highest number confirmed by the High Courts in four years; 17 of the 26 confirmed (65.38%) were in homicide offenses involving sexual violence. The Supreme Court (mainly during the tenure of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi) listed and heard 27 death penalty cases in a year since 2001. One of the two death sentences was for sexual violence-murde...
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