Capital Punishment: An Overview

India is known as a creating nation and nowadays crime rates are increasing day by day as well as there are so many legislation in India to stop and control crimes, even though crime rates are increasing because of the non-sufficient punishment of crimes, punishment should be severe in nature for reducing the crime rates in India .All disciplines depend on the motive to give punishment to wrongdoer. There are various types of discipline, for example, the death penalty, life detainment, detainment etc. the most serious type of discipline is known as capital punishment. This paper explains the concept and status of death penalty as well as capital offence all around the world. This article explains the detailed view about capital punishment as well as the methods of execution in India.