Death Sentences And Human Rights: Analysis Of Death Penalty In The USA And India In Relation To Human Rights
Shivam Jadaun & Afreen Siddiqui, Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
ABSTRACT
Strengthening the rule of law and increasing institutional accountability is the key to reduce conflicts and injustice. The purpose of the Paper is to examine the specifics of analysing death sentences, human rights, and the death penalty in the United States and India. The world1 is quickly moving toward a position in favour of the death penalty2 being abolished globally. In comparison to 35 years ago, only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty in law or in practise. 108 nations will have done away with the death penalty for all crimes by the end of 2021. India's and America's respective justice systems have a negative impact on regional peace. To determine whether the biggest democracy in the world, India, and one of the oldest democracies, America, have any defects or biases in their legal systems that result from past persecution of caste and race, respectively. The motion for global abolition of death penalty is gaining support. The use of the death sentence has changed significantly over the world as a result of the developing global controversy surrounding it. Consequently, the morality of the death penalty is questionable, and many criminologists and socialists around the world have long called for its abolition. In cases involving capital offences, the death penalty is now an exception rather than the rule.
Keywords: Death Penalty, Human Rights, International Homicide, Regional and International Organization, Punishment, Supreme Court, Sentence and Crimes.
