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Death penalty vs life sentence? Revisiting Sharon Raj, RG Kar murders | Ep 141


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A Kerala court’s rare decision to award the death penalty to a 24-year-old woman for poisoning her boyfriend, and a Kolkata court's decision to sentence the rapist and murderer of a young doctor to life imprisonment, have sparked a debate on capital punishment. Dr Anup Surendranath, Director of Project 39A at NLU Delhi, joins News Brake to discuss the death penalty in India and the concept of 'rarest of rare' cases

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