The number of death row inmates whose sentences were commuted in the high courts across India amounted to 51 in 2022. 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 south Asian nations.
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Project 39A. (January 30, 2023). Number of death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts across India from 2016 to 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 10, 2024, from 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 from 2016 to 2022." Chart. January 30, 2023. Statista. Accessed September 10, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103484/india-death-penalty-prisoners-sentence-commutation-in-high-courts/
Project 39A. (2023). Number of death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts across India from 2016 to 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: September 10, 2024. 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 from 2016 to 2022." Statista, Statista Inc., 30 Jan 2023, 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 from 2016 to 2022 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103484/india-death-penalty-prisoners-sentence-commutation-in-high-courts/ (last visited September 10, 2024)
Number of death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts across India from 2016 to 2022 [Graph], Project 39A, January 30, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103484/india-death-penalty-prisoners-sentence-commutation-in-high-courts/
