Death row inmates sentences commuted in high courts India 2016-2021
The number of death row inmates whose sentences were commuted in the high courts across India amounted to 21 in 2021. 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.