The number of death row inmates whose sentences were commuted in the high courts across India amounted to 22 in 2020. The number of death penalty cases where sentences have been commuted to a lighter sentence in the high courts have been quiet similar over the years.
More than 50 percent of the cases of capital punishment between 2000 and 2014 were commuted to life imprisonment by the supreme court of the south Asian nation.
Number of death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts across India between 2016 and 2020
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Project 39A. (January 19, 2021). Number of death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts across India between 2016 and 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 06, 2021, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103484/india-death-penalty-prisoners-sentence-commutation-in-high-courts/
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Project 39A. (2021). Number of death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts across India between 2016 and 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 06, 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103484/india-death-penalty-prisoners-sentence-commutation-in-high-courts/
Project 39A. "Number of Death Row Inmates Sentences Commuted in High Courts across India between 2016 and 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 19 Jan 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103484/india-death-penalty-prisoners-sentence-commutation-in-high-courts/
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