Current Death Penalty Status: Retentionist
Method of execution: Hanging (or shooting under the Army Act 1950)
| Reported Executions | Reported Death Sentences | |
| 2013 |
1* |
+ |
| 2012 |
1 |
78+ |
| 2011 |
0 |
110+ |
| 2010 |
0 |
105+ |
| 2009 |
0 |
50+ |
| 2008 |
0 |
70+ |
| 2007 |
0 |
100+ |
| 2006 |
0 |
40 |
ADPAN Members in India:
- Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM)
- Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
- Lawyers for Human Rights International (LHRI)
*As of 25 June 2013
Note:
Executions resumed in 2012, following eight years of no executions (2004-2012)
Names of those executed since 2004:
- Ajmal Kasab (November 2012), a Pakistani national
- Afzal Guru (February 2013), a Kashmiri
