An essay on the death penalty for The Hindu: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/an-abhorrent-and-unjust-device/article26537190.ece
Tag: Death Penalty
The end of the origin
A review of Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s book on abolishing the death penalty: http://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/The-end-of-the-origin/article16699829.ece
Final Word
A piece in the August issue of The Caravan magazine on how the judiciary has misappropriated the phrase “collective conscience” in death penalty cases: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/final-word-collective-conscience
Law Commission Report on ‘Death Penalty’
In the Economic and Political Weekly, my comment on the Supreme Court’s flawed death penalty jurisprudence: http://www.epw.in/commentary/law-commission-report-%E2%80%98death-penalty%E2%80%99.html
This Lethal Lottery
My article in The OPEN Magazine on the Supreme Court’s judgment commuting the death sentence awarded previously to three men for conspiring and murdering the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/this-lethal-lottery
Condemned to die, but not to wait
An op-ed in The Hindu, co-authored with Goutham Shivshankar, on why those sentenced to death are also deserving of the due process of law: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/condemned-to-die-but-not-to-wait/article5653592.ece
India’s muddled thinking on punishment
My piece in The Hindu’s editorial on why the retention of the death penalty speaks to a larger incoherence in India’s penology: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-muddled-thinking-on-punishment/article5131843.ece
Suhrith Parthasarathy 