SOCIO-LEGAL IMPACT OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON JUVENILES IN INDIA

Saumya tripathi1 G. Brahmakrit rao2

Affiliation: Symbiosis law school, Hyderabad, India

Email Id: saumya.tripathi@student.slsh.edu.in, brahmakrit.rao@student.slsh.edu.in

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Chapter Overview:

A Juvenile means a child or a young person who is below the age of 18 besides minors in the
age group of 16-18 to be tried as adults if they commit heinous crimes in regard with JJ Act
2015. Death penalty, as far as ICCPR is concerned, refers to as the practice of executing
someone as a punishment for a specific crime after a proper legal trial. Juvenile crime is,
therefore not different from any other forms of crimes like rape, murder etc. There are many
international organisations and countless number of laws internationally as well as
nationally dealing with Juvenile Crimes and death penalty for the act of Juveniles. In this
research paper the author would be comparing the application of capital punishment in India
with respect to the other countries. Thus, drawing the line of the impact on the views of the
author of implementation of Capital Punishment for Juveniles and to foster the juvenile
regulations in India. Hence, this paper attempts to analyse the substitute punishment rather
than death penalty if death penalty has a sociological impact on juveniles on the grounds of
precedents and statutes such as Nirbhaya gang rape case, JJ Act, 2015.

Keywords: Juvenile, ICCPR, International Laws, Nirbhaya gang rape, JJ Act, 2015

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2nd Year BA LLB Student, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad

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2nd Year BBA LLB Student, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad