Present View of Capital Punishment In India and Around the World

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Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education [JASRAE] (Vol:16/ Issue: 6) DOI: 10.29070/JASRAE
Authors: Prakash Srivastava*, A. B. Kafaltiya,
Subjects: Multidisciplinary Academic Research

Year: May, 2019
Volume: 16 / Issue: 6
Pages: 539 - 546 (8)
Publisher: Ignited Minds Journals
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E-ISSN: 2230-7540
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Published URL: http://ipublisher.in/p/120076
Published On: May, 2019

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Present View of Capital Punishment in India and Around the World | Original Article

Prakash Srivastava*, A. B. Kafaltiya, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

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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.