Description
Book SynopsisThe book is a personal narrative of the author on the death penalty. The author in this work recounts her experience, as a lawyer, of arguing a death penalty case. The book also critically examines the leading death penalty cases that have developed the law on the capital punishment in India, and quotes the leading jurists on the subject.
Table of Contents1. The Case of the Four Boys 2. Bachan Singh 3. Machchi Singh 4. Swamy Shraddananda 5. Dhananjoy Chatterjee 6. The Mumbai Bomb Blasts 7. Law is Not Mathematics 8. Bodies on the Hillock 9. Guns, Knives, and Swords 10. At the Supreme Court 11. Burning the Midnight Oil 12. Finding Flaws and Loopholes 13. No Eyewitnesses, My Lords! 14. The Star Witnesses 15. Other Witnesses 16. Skulls and Bones 17. The Final Lap 18. The Final Lap II 19. The Judgment 20. Afterwards 22. The Abolition of the Death Penalty: Global Perspectives 23. Death Penalty Creates No Deterrence: Hard Facts 24. Food for Thought
