The judiciary handing over death penalty to many criminals, particularly the sexual offenders. 162 convicts were sentenced to death in India by trial courts in 2018, the highest number of capital punishments awarded in the country in a year since 2000. The number of capital punishments awarded in 2018 saw dramatic increase from a year ago when 109 convicts were sentenced to death.
In 2018, with a total of 22 capital punishments pronounced by the trial courts, Madhya Pradesh had the highest number of death sentences in the country, an increase of over 4 times fro 2017 when 6 persons were sentenced to death in the state.
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Maharashtra had the second highest number of death penalties at 16 in 2018 followed by Karnataka and UP, (15 each) Rajasthan (13) and Tamil Nadu (12).