A Cruel Game of Chance: Administration of the Death Penalty in India

Venue: Room 920, Law Building

Presenters: Dr Anup Surendranath

Co-hosted by the Asian Law Centre, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, and Reprieve Australia

Based on interviews with all of India’s death row prisoners and their families between June 2013 and January 2015, the Centre on the Death Penalty at National Law University, Delhi has documented the socio-economic profile of prisoners under the sentence of death along with mapping their interaction with various aspects of the Indian criminal justice system. While discussing issues of discrimination, custodial torture, incompetent representation, prison conditions and alienation from the legal system in the context of his work with death row prisoners, in this seminar, Dr. Anup Surendranath will also reflect on the Centre’s experience in providing pro bono representation to over 40 death row prisoners in the last 18 months.

Dr. Anup Surendranath is the Director of the Centre on the Death Penalty at National Law University, Delhi.

from
https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6051-a-cruel-game-of-chance-administration-of-the-death-penalty