Should Capital Punishment be removed from the existing Indian Law or not? The topic itself is quite 'debatable'. However, I managed to substantiate it a bit with some information collected from the Internet, still was not satisfied with the outcome. So, I made a survey on the common people of Bhubaneswar to know what they want. I took down the datas collected from their yes/no response and compiled them into a graph which gave me a much clearer overview. I hope that my presentation might be helpful to you all and know the current scenario of people's mindset to some extent. Thank you. By Rajdeep Banerjee

1. V
KIIT UNIVERSITY

2. People’s Union for
Civil Liberties
1,422 execution –
(1953 -1963) alone
NLU , Delhi
They confirmed 755
executions in India
since 1947.
NLU , Delhi
Since 2000 – 1,617 prisoners
sentenced to death by Trial
Courts, Capital Punishment -
71 cases.
LAW COMMISSION OF
INDIA
According to their report,
Death sentences
awarded from 1953-63 -
1410
Government
Statistics
52 people executed
since Independence
India achieved
Independence in
1947

3. Let’s come to the point.
Should Capital Punishment or Death Sentence be banned in India?
• This type of punishment as a law was the 18th century B.C.E. in the Code of King
Babylon which warranted capital punishment for several types of crimes. Although
modern ways have changed drastically, capital punishment is still an ancient
punishment and should be abolished due to its severity and general inhumaneness.
• Capital Punishment is also against the United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human Rights which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in
1948.
Article 3 clearly states that all humans have the right to life, being the right to not
be killed for any reason whatsoever.

4. • This forced death essentially kills the person leaving no
other choice other than to accept the punishment or appeal
through highly complex worldwide legal systems that result
in similar conclusions.
But, Article 5 of the same document also states that
everybody (all humans) “shall be subjected to torture or to
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

5. FOR
• We live in an era where it seems that most human rights treaties have been
ratified by the vast majority of countries. Yet it seems that the human rights
agenda has fallen on hard times.
• In much of the Islamic world, women lack equality, religious dissenters are
persecuted and political freedoms are curtailed.
• The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and
economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
Backlashes against LGBT rights have taken place in countries as diverse as
Russia and Nigeria.
• So why is it that when it comes to Capital Punishment, Human Rights should
apply?

6. • Humans fear death. Punishments are consequences for
our horrible actions. With Capital punishment, criminals
have something to be scared of: death.
• Research shows that each execution carried out is
correlated with about 74 fewer murders the following
year...
• The study examined the relationship between the
number of executions and the number of murders in the
U.S. for the 26-year period from 1979 to 2004, using data
from publicly available FBI sources...
• There seems to be an obvious negative correlation in
that when executions increase, murders decrease, and
when executions decrease, murders increase.

7. Capital punishment is a legal penalty
in India.
It has been carried out in five
instances since 1995,while a total of
twenty-six executions have taken
place in India since 1991.
The last execution in India to date
was of the terrorist Yakub Memon in
2015.
Lets take Yakub Memon as an example

8. Smoking Kills
• Yakub Abdul Razak Memon (Yākūb Abdul Rajāk Mēmon) (30 July 1962 – 30 July 2015)
was an Indian citizen who was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay
bombings by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007.
According to Indian authorities, Memon
financially assisted his brother Tiger
Memon and Dawood Ibrahim in planning
and executing the bombings. Memon
allegedly handled Tiger's funds, funded the
training of 15 youths who were sent
to Pakistan to learn handling arms and
ammunition, purchased the vehicles used in
the bombings, and stockpile weapons

9. So, What is the Conclusion?
Before drawing the
conclusion let us see what
people in Bhubaneswar
wants?

11. What people wants?

12. BIBLIOGRAPHY
www.Wikipedia.com
www.advocatekhoj.com
www.google.com