In the backdrop of an alarming rate of executions in Singapore in 2022, Kirsten gives the listeners a first-hand account. The Podcast
The Supreme Court in a recent order referred issues relating to capital sentencing in India to a Constitution bench. Unlike the dominant
On September 19th, 2022, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court referred certain issues of death penalty sentencing to a larger constitutional
Set in place by a 42-year-old Supreme Court judgement, Indian law requires judges to consider a convict’s life story and the probability
The imagination of legal representation in capital cases is limited to lawyers. Mitigation, however, needs to be conducted by individuals trained in
The presumption of innocence is a traditional principle of Indian criminal law. Generally speaking, every accused person is presumed innocent until proven
In upholding the validity of India’s money laundering law, the Supreme Court on 27 July 2022, created a new normal in the
In this interview, Rukmini S, a data journalist and author discusses with Ayan Gupta, a Death Penalty Fellow at Project 39A about
Project 39A recommends four Indian films - Court (2014), Visaranai (2015), Jai Bhim (2021) and Aakrosh (1980) - which center the experiences
Adrija Ghosh and Dr, Durba Mitra discuss the idea of 'deviant female sexuality' that became foundational to modern social thought in colonial