AN EXAMINATION OF DEATH PENALTY FROM A HUMAN RIGHTS PROSPECTIVE

This work looks into how India's laws and human rights concerns shape the use of execution. Laws tied to the constitution set boundaries, while rules in the Indian Penal Code outline when such a penalty applies. Following new procedures laid out in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha
Sanhita, 2023 helps control how sentences are carried forward. Courts have stepped in over time, narrowing application by using the idea of "rarest of rare" cases. Power to reduce sentences still exists, built into the nation’s founding document. Life behind bars awaiting execution carries deep mental scars. Questions arise about fairness when courts hand down sentences unevenly across races or regions. Taking a person's life through state order clashes with basic dignity for many observers.International norms now push harder against lethal justice than before. Whether today’s values still allow room for executions
becomes harder to answer.