Present View of Capital Punishment in India and Around the World

Exploring the Perspectives and Practices of Capital Punishment in India and Worldwide

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide some relevant information on Indian and global status of capital punishment. At first, the concept of capital punishment is discussed and then a capital offense is defined. The paper then describes the methods used in capital punishment. After that two major theories related to capital punishment including the reformative theory and preventive theory are discussed followed by detail discussion of the views of different countries regarding capital punishment or death penalty including the concepts prevailing in the Retentionist and abolitionist countries. Then, the Indian concept of capital punishment along with the prevailing laws and capital punishment bin ancient India are also discussed. A last, the paper concludes discussing the positive aspects of capital punishment.