Travesty to term it state-inflicted death: India votes against UN death penalty moratorium
· World · Hindustan Times, The Hindu
India voted against a UN General Assembly draft resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, stating there was no international consensus against capital punishment. Bhavika Mangalanandan, an Indian Foreign Service officer at India's Permanent Mission to the UN, argued judicially mandated capital punishment is permitted under article six of the ICCPR with restrictions and due legal process. She formally disassociated India from a specific paragraph equating lawful capital punishment with torture and arbitrary killings. India supported the broader resolution addressing extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions while objecting to discussing capital punishment under that resolution.
Why it matters
India's position reinforces its sovereign right to determine its own legal system and capital punishment laws, maintaining that judicial executions differ from arbitrary killings and are subject to due process.
Read the original report — Hindustan Times
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