The Indefinite Sentence- Delay, Dignity, and Death Row in India

India has executed fewer than a handful of people in the last few decades. Yet, hundreds of prisoners sentenced to death remain on the death row for several years, sometimes for decades, hanging in the uncertainty of life and death. This article, while observing the statistical data from Death Penalty Reports and the real cases of death row convicts, examines the legal and constitutional consequences of this prolonged uncertainty, arguing that the delay between sentencing and execution has become a punishment in itself, one that no court ever sanctioned and no institution has ever been held accountable for.