'80% death row convicts face custodial violence'
According to a National Law University project, 80% of the convicts sentenced to death across India have suffered custodial violence. The 'Death Penalty Research Project' found that 78.3% of the prisoners who confessed in police custody, did so after they were tortured. NLU students reported their findings after they interviewed 373 death row convicts from June 2013 to January 2015.