Death penalties in India increased by 81% in 2016: Study
India has registered an 81% increase in death sentences imposed in 2016 as compared to 2015, an Amnesty International study has claimed. India awarded 136 death penalties in 2016 as compared to 75 a year before, it added. However, India did not witness even a single execution in the last year, although over 400 prisoners were on death row.