A negation of the individual and a collective moral decay

Context

Report by Project 39A

• According to a report by Project 39A at the National Law University, Delhi, a total of 488 prisoners in India (as of 2021) were on death row, which is an increase of nearly 21% from 2020.

Ahmedabad serial blasts case court verdict

• The recent verdict of a Gujarat court awarding death sentence to 38 accused persons in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts case.
• In one fell swoop, the unprecedented verdict of the court in Ahmedabad has now added a near 10% increase to this number cited in the report by project 39A.
• It is also a reflection of the growing trend of trial courts to cursorily hand down the death sentence.

What the editorial is about?

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