Abstract

Capital punishment or death penalty is the penalty given for the person who has been convicted of a very serious offence. It is derived from the Latin word ‘capitalis’ which means of the head. The capital punishment is often seen as an exceptional rule to life imprisonment in modern world of punishments. This paper examines the human rights implications, legal challenges and societal issues surrounding the death penalty contrasting it with the life imprisonment as a more humane and widely accepted alternative. This paper also covers the public opinion along with the political influences on the capital sentence and also analysis with the world trend. This paper says about the status of capital punishment all around the world and also defines the concept of capital offence. It also explains about the modes of capital punishment in India . This article explains two major theories related to capital punishment, namely reformative theory and preventive theory. In this research the researcher also explained about rarest of rare cases. This article mentioned about abolitionist and retentionist countries, also capital punishment in ancient India. This article has a detailed view about the capital punishment in India and also the methods of execution in India.

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