*Include offences for which no death sentence was imposed this year. In 2021, these include drug offences and a case that involved the sale of spurious liquor which resulted in the deaths of multiple persons.
Values of 2022 include nine death sentences for which no information regarding the nature of offence is unavailable.
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Death sentences handed by sessions courts India 2022, by nature of offence
The number of death sentences imposed by sessions courts across India for murder simpliciter amounted to ** in 2022. There has been an upward spike in imposing capital punishment for crimes of this nature in recent years following the public outrage that spread across the south Asian nation on account of the brutal gangrape and murder of a female victim in the nation's capital city of Delhi in 2012. The various Sessions courts of India handed out around *** capital punishments in that year.
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Number of death sentences imposed by sessions courts across India in 2022, by nature of offence [Graph], Project 39A, January 30, 2023. [Online]. Available: /statistics/1103367/india-death-sentences-imposed-by-sessions-courts-by-nature-of-offence/
