India needs to rethink death penalty: Shinde

November 26, 2012 11:43

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Sunday that the government needs to "rethink' its policy on capital punishment.

Speaking at the Idea Exchange programme organised by Loksatta, the Marathi newspaper of The Indian Express Group, Shinde said: "We need to rethink. We (the government and Rashtrapati Bhavan) received a representation from 13-14 eminent Indian persons yesterday demanding a ban on death penalty. There should not be cruelty. They said these convicts (should) be made to serve in jail and need not be released on parole." Read

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