3 Forms of Crime, Crime in India, Punishment and Prisons · 3.2 Punishment and prisons

3.2.2 Corporal and capital punishment, sentencing and pardon

India has abolished judicial corporal punishment but keeps the death penalty for the "rarest of rare" cases (Bachan Singh, 1980); life imprisonment means the whole of natural life unless the government remits it, and the President (Article 72) and Governor (Article 161) can pardon or reduce sentences.

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Key terms

  • corporal punishment
  • whipping
  • flogging
  • caning
  • Abolition of Whipping Act 1955
  • Section 17 RTE Act
  • Section 82 JJ Act
  • capital punishment
  • death penalty
  • abolitionist
  • retentionist
  • Amnesty International
  • Second Optional Protocol ICCPR
  • Jagmohan Singh
  • Rajendra Prasad
  • Bachan Singh 1980
  • rarest of rare
  • Machhi Singh 1983
  • Mithu 1983
  • Section 303 IPC
  • Section 104 BNS
  • Deena Dayal
  • hanging
  • T.V. Vatheeswaran
  • Sher Singh
  • Triveniben
  • Shatrughan Chauhan 2014
  • Devender Pal Singh Bhullar
  • mercy petition
  • Section 472 BNSS
  • Law Commission 35th report
  • 262nd report
  • life imprisonment
  • Gopal Vinayak Godse
  • Laxman Naskar
  • Swamy Shraddananda
  • V. Sriharan
  • Section 433A CrPC
  • Section 475 BNSS
  • remission
  • commutation
  • Section 473 BNSS
  • Section 474 BNSS
  • sentence review board
  • determinate sentence
  • indeterminate sentence
  • presumptive sentencing
  • mandatory sentence
  • Elmira
  • Brockway
  • concurrent sentence
  • tender of pardon
  • approver
  • Section 306 CrPC
  • Section 343 BNSS
  • Article 72
  • Article 161

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