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Over the years, The Square Circle Clinic's work has drawn coverage from journalists and outlets across the country. This page is a running record of that engagement, spanning news, audio, and video.

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NALSAR, CDFD sign deal to bridge gap in forensic development and judicial interpretation

How one legal clinic’s giving prisoners a second life

What Supreme Court acquittals reveal about the death penalty in India

Supreme Court Observer

High Courts have confirmed only 10% of death sentences since 2016: Square Circle Clinic report

Towards a new paradigm of intervention in criminal justice

Supreme Court Observer

Capital punishment highest in murder cases, sexual violence next: Death penalty lawyer Shreya Rastogi

Free Legal Aid Cannot Mean Poor Legal Aid: Justice Vikram Nath.

Over 70% of India's prisoners have not yet been found guilty: SC judge

‘Jail Within A Jail’: Death Row and the Impact on Mental Health

With 564 in death row, arbitrary death sentencing is the rule not the exception in Indian courts

564 People On Death Row In India, Highest Since The Turn Of The Century

More Indians Spending Longer Times On Death Row Is Torture—Prof Anup Surendranath

India is slowly killing its death row prisoners without actually hanging them

Study explores drivers of death terms

Hindustan Times

Death Penalty Sentencing in India's Trial Courts: Confusion in the Apex Court Wreaks Havoc in Courts Below

In most death penalty cases, court invoked ‘collective conscience’ of society: Study

We villainise rapists to exonerate ourselves: Anup Surendranath on the futility of the death penalty

Death Penalty For Sexual Offences Up 53% In 2018, But Most Rape Cases Stuck At Trial

Most death sentences given in cases related to sexual offences

Death sentence for rape-murder in 2019 highest in 4 years: NLU report

Telling Numbers: In 2019, fewer death sentences overall

Report: Drop in death sentences awarded by trial courts

Death sentences by lower courts hit 20 year high

162 death penalties imposed by trial courts in 2018, highest in two decades

Most death sentences since 2000: NLU Project 39A’s report on Death Penalty

MP issued most death sentences in 2018 — a result of harsher child rape law

India is too hasty with capital punishment

Telegraph India

The Big Bloody Year: 162 Death Sentences in 2018 Make it Highest in Nearly Two Decades

After stricter law on child rape, death sentences hit two-decade high

It is time to rethink the death penalty

Hindustan Times

Is it time to abolish the death penalty?

Death penalty is inadmissible in all cases, says Pope Francis

Death given, fate awaited: A look of convicts awaiting the noose in India

New Indian Express

Death penalty is nothing more than political execution, Nirbhaya case isn’t different

Life on Death Row

NLU Delhi’s death penalty project, now with 20 full-time staff, rebrands, widens scope to include Article 39-A, equal justice

Indian child killer sentenced to death 23 days after arrest, raises fears over trial fairness

Punishment in Indore rape and murder case opens up need for debate on death penalty

Hindustan Times

The case against death penalty

Why The Death Penalty Just Needs To Go. For Good.

Feminism In India

Why The Death Penalty For Child Rape Does Not Mean Swifter, Better Justice

Death poor deterrent: Three per cent convictions, 94% accused know victims in child rape cases

Death penalty will only silence victims of child sexual abuse'

Will death penalty be a deterrent? Speed up trials to tighten the noose, say experts

Death penalty fast-food solution for rape: Experts

Indian courts gave 109 death sentences in 2017 but none executed: Amnesty

Hindustan Times

Criminal justice system in India skewed against the poor; judiciary losing credibility due to repeated legal oversights

Some Indian states are considering the death penalty for child rapists. But will it be effective?

BJP govt doesn’t want death penalty for those raping children, but party MP would like it for those killing cows

371 Convicts In Death Row By 2017 End, 27% Dip From 2016: Centre On Death Penalty (NLU-D) Report

32% of ex-SC judges believe police torture is a necessary evil, reveal NLU Delhi talks to 60 ex-judges on the death penalty

Death penalty is a form of torture. Abolish it

Hindustan Times

Ex-SC judges believe use of torture is prevalent in criminal justice system

NLU-D Centre On Death Penalty Releases ‘Matters Of Judgment’ Report On Award Of Capital Punishment

Death penalty for child rapists in Madhya Pradesh: Govt should instead focus on preventive measures

Does the Supreme Court Really Have to Decide It All?

Indian Medical Association asks that doctors be excused from participating in execution of convicts

SC Expresses Shock Over Non-Release Of Undertrials Despite Recommendations

Counterpoint: The President of India’s power to pardon is not an anachronism

Why It’s Dangerous To Assume That The President Of India Is Just A Figurehead

Huffington Post

The Quality of Mercy

President Rejects Mercy Petitions Of Five Death-Row Convicts In Two Days

Viewpoint: Why death penalty is not the answer to sexual violence in India

Guilty. What Next? – How Courts Decide Between Life Imprisonment and Capital Punishment

Delhi gang rape verdict: By invoking ‘collective conscience’, the Supreme Court sidestepped justice

Should we do away with Capital Punishment?

Bilkis Bano vs Nirbhaya: All That’s Wrong With Capital Punishment

Capital punishment to Nirbhaya rapists revives death penalty debate

Nirbhaya gangrape case: Death penalty does not deter crime, say activists

Gandhian studies will not save rapist, killer of 4-yr-old from the noose

India Registers 136 Death Sentences In 2016, Up From 70 In 2015

A Systemic Trend In India In Awarding Death Penalty Against Marginalized Populations: Dr.Anup Surendranath

US State Department Report Highlights India's Human Rights Violations, Actions Against Civil Society Groups

Death Penality to be abolished in India? Here’s what Law Commission has to say

Financial Express

Bill For Absolute Right To Appeal In Death Penalty Cases Introduced In Lok Sabha

Hasty trial court rulings spike up death penalty decisions

Hard cases and good law

SC heard seven death penalty appeals in 2016, confirmed none

Analysing current states of death: 2016 death row spikes led by murder & West Bengal • SC oscillates the other way

It is 7-0 against death penalty in Supreme Court last year, NLU-D Centre on the Death Penalty Report

Spike In Award Of Death Sentences: Says Centre For Death Penalty In Annual Statistical Report For 2016 [Read Report]

Conditions in Death Row Are a Recipe For Mental Health Disasters

The bias of death penalty against the economically vulnerable

Youngest prisoner on death row now cleared of charges

India's death row prisoners face horrific conditions, study finds

Death Sentences in India Usually End in Question Marks, Study Finds

Over 70% convicts face inhuman torture, forced anal penetration: study

Deccan Chronicle

Death penalty report: Shift focus to plight of victims also, say jurists

Capital punishment in India: 385 persons identified as prisoners on death row

Most on death row are poor, from backward caste groups, minorities: Law University report

RS members debate abolition of death penalty

Creating Conversations on the Death Penalty in India

CHRI Newsletter

Here's proof that poor get gallows, rich mostly escape

72 Muslims Hanged in India against 1,342 Hindus and Others

New Indian Express

Death as life experience

Yakub Memon hanging: Are we using death penalty far too often?

Supreme Court to hear Yakub Memon's plea for execution of his death sentence

Days from an execution, India faces questions over death penalty

‘Mercy plea, fitness level only options left against death’