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OK, so if I am a condemned person sitting on an Indian death row, who can order my actual execution? As far as public opinion goes, yes, it matters, but it may
by inglor_cz 3y ago
OK, so if I am a condemned person sitting on an Indian death row, who can order my actual execution?
As far as public opinion goes, yes, it matters, but it may not be decisive. Quite a few European countries would probably re-introduce the death penalty if the question was left entirely to the population (via a referendum). I am sort-of glad that they don't go down this road; not even Ukraine sentences Russian war criminals to death.
- shash 3y agoA series of more or less automatic appeals ends up at the desk of the President. It's a deliberate act of commission by the President of the time to actually order an execution. And overwhelmingly, they tend to commute.
- rex_lupi 3y agoPractically the president. The appeal process is deliberately long, except in cases with strong public or international pressure.