The Supreme Court has declared that the death penalty should be applied only in the “rarest of the rare” cases. And, indeed, the last three executions in the country stemmed from terrorist offenses that threatened or took a large number of lives.
印度死刑执行方式存在的问题也促使我发表了这份声明。最高法院宣布适用死刑的案件应遵循“罕见中的罕见”的原则。事实上，印度最近三起实际执行的死刑均源于威胁或夺走大量民众生命的恐怖袭击。