{"id":5894,"date":"2020-01-25T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T11:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2020-01-25T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T11:36:03","slug":"death-penalty-statistics-and-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/death-penalty-statistics-and-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Death penalty statistics and significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Polity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5896\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"898\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death.png 898w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death-150x93.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/death-768x474.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Centre\u2019s application in the Supreme Court for additional guidelines regarding the execution of condemned prisoners betrays a needless impatience to hang the four convicts facing the gallows for the rape and murder of \u2018Nirbhaya\u2019 in 2012.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Ministry of Home Affairs essentially seeks the incorporation of measures aimed at reducing the scope for death row convicts to adopt dilatory tactics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deadth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5895\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deadth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deadth.png 602w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deadth-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deadth-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Demanding speedy punishment process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These guidelines were undoubtedly aimed at protecting the constitutional rights of prisoners in the context of a sound body of jurisprudence that maintains that such rights extend right up to the moment of their execution.<br \/>\n\u2022 The court was anxious about enforcing their right to be informed about the scope for filing petitions for clemency, for being given legal assistance in drafting them, and for exploring judicial remedies even after their appeals for mercy are rejected.<br \/>\n\u2022 Further, the 14-day time lag between the closure of the clemency route and their hanging is aimed at preventing secret executions.<br \/>\n\u2022 The court was concerned about the right of the convicts\u2019 family members to be informed, as well as the time needed by the prisoners for settling their affairs and preparing themselves mentally.<br \/>\n\u2022 It is strange that the government wants the Supreme Court to frame a rule imposing a seven-day limit on the time that convicts have to file a mercy petition after a death warrant is issued.<br \/>\n\u2022 And that courts, governments and prison authorities should all be mandated to issue death warrants within seven days of the rejection of mercy petitions and to carry out the sentence within seven days thereafter.<br \/>\n\u2022 To believe that these are matters that contribute to substantive delay in carrying out death sentences is misconceived.<br \/>\n\u2022 Nothing prevents the government from introducing rules to address such situations.<br \/>\n\u2022 On the need for a time limit for filing curative petitions, the government is right in believing that the absence of such a stipulation gives scope for convicts in the same case to take turns to file such petitions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deaths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5897\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deaths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deaths.jpg 435w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deaths-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deaths-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/deaths-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Way forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>However, there is no sign that the apex court delays disposal of curative petitions. If and when one is filed, it results in no more than a few days\u2019 delay.<br \/>\n\u2022 In a country that unfortunately retains the death penalty, there is no excuse for delaying the disposal of any petition, either in court, or before constitutional functionaries.<br \/>\n\u2022 Nor is there any need to expedite executions by revisiting sound guidelines. As the death penalty is limited to the \u201crarest of rare\u201d cases, nothing is lost if those facing execution are allowed to exhaust all possible remedies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper II: Polity Context: The Centre\u2019s application in the Supreme Court for additional guidelines regarding the execution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}