New Delhi: As of 2020, 413 prisoners sentenced to death were lodged in various jails across the country. This information has been received from the new figures of the Central Government. The National Crime Records Bureau’s annual ‘Prison Statistics India 2020‘ states that out of the total prisoners sentenced to death, 94 were sentenced to death in 2020. The NCRB, which works under the Ministry of Home Affairs, said that in 2020, the death sentence of 29 convicts was commuted to life imprisonment.
The report said, “A total of 94 people were sentenced to death in the country during 2020. Of these 94 prisoners, 15 people each from Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, 14 from West Bengal, eight from Bihar, and six each from Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu were involved. It said that of the 29 convicts whose death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment, 24.1 percent were from Maharashtra. This was followed by Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu with five and 17.2 percent prisoners, respectively.
“A total of 413 death row convicts (including 319 death row convicts in previous years and 94 death row convicts in 2020) were lodged in different jails, which is 0.36 percent of the total convicts,” the report said. It said that Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of such convictions at 12.8 percent (53 out of 413). It is followed by Maharashtra with 11.9 percent (49) and Madhya Pradesh with 9.7 (40) percent.
