Trial courts across the country imposed 165 death sentences in 2022, which is the highest in a single year in the last two decades, a report has said. Also, 539 prisoners were on death row by the end of 2022, which was the highest since 2016 and the number of prisoners living under death sentence saw an increase of 40% since 2015, the report added. The report titled Death Penalty in India, Annual Statistics Report, 2022' was released by Project 39A of the National Law University (NLU) here. The large death row population signals the continued imposition of a high number of death sentences by trial courts with a low rate of disposal by appellate courts, the report said. It said that more than
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