Yet she boldly states her opposition to the death penalty and draws the reader towards the larger question — whether any individual deserves to lose their life and whether we, the State, deserve to kill them. She begins by studying significant precedents by the court which steered the discourse around death penalty in India. Here the book presents the most intuitively powerful argument against the death penalty — the irreversibility of the punishment in a criminal justice system deeply susceptible to error. The book provides a suitable Introduction to the development of death penalty jurisprudence in India and the broad range of arguments on its desirability. Demons & demigods: Death penalty in India By Aparna Jha, Oxford, Rs 495

Source: The Telegraph May 16, 2019 14:15 UTC