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Answer Overview

Response rates from 9.2k India voters.

77%
Yes
23%
No
55%
Yes
20%
No
20%
Yes, but only for horrific crimes with undeniable evidence
3%
No, spending life in prison is a harsher sentence
1%
Yes, but the victim’s family should decide the punishment
1%
No, too many people are innocently convicted

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Other Popular Answers

Unique answers from India voters whose views went beyond the provided options.

 @B3T97SCanswered…1mo1MO

should be more painful than death for some serious crimes like rape, child trafficking, terrorism, mass murder, etc.

 @B32SQ6Fanswered…2mos2MO

Yes, but only if the evidence is undeniable. My reason is that taxpayer money should not be wasted for a merely harsher form of punishment. Many criminals also find the death penalty worse, anyways.

 @9ZL6FBQanswered…5mos5MO

Life sentence(With torture and social stigma in case of violent crimes with chances of parole only under the supervision best of psychologists and psychiatrists)

 @9MCYFY2answered…11mos11MO

I think they should get mental or psychological treatment in jail and educate them for the betterment of the society as mostly uneducated people become serious criminals. Criminals who have committed financial frauds should be enforced to do some mild labour so that they would be employed in some way and their salary to contribute the recovery from the fraud

 @9JW7J48answered…1yr1Y

I dont support death penalty as i think is an easy way out and it gives too much power to the judiciary to set a standard for death penalty. How do they get to decide which convict deserved death penalty and which doesnt.

 @9FYF5BKanswered…2yrs2Y

Used as a deterrent but never actually carried out. Terminally ill prisoners are allowed to choose euthanasia and it is published as a death penalty to scare people into abiding the law.

 @938ZLH3answered…3yrs3Y