Why are only a few terrorists executed in India?

November 23, 2012 14:54

India has faced terrorism for more than the last five decades, practically since the country was created. The northeast states, central and east India, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir have been particularly affected, but almost no state has been free from terror incidents in that time.

At least 90,000 people have lost their lives in India in terrorism-related incidents.Still, the number of convictions for terrorism is low, and executions of people found guilty of terrorism even rare. Read

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