About the Book: Demons and Demigods: Death Penalty in India
'The harshest punishment is reserved for the harshest crimes. Murderers,
rapists, terrorists—perpetrators of grisly acts—these are the people on death
row. The Supreme Court of India has repeatedly held that the death penalty can
be awarded only in the rarest of rare cases, where guilt is proved beyond
reasonable doubt. Yet, who is to say what that may be? For witnesses can lie and
evidence be tampered with. In a system that is imperfect, not all those found
guilty are truly demons, nor those who pass the sentence demigods, flawless and
beyond reproach. In Demons and Demigods,