🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane* India’s justice system is failing victims of brutal crimes. Even when death sentences are declared, executions rarely happen. Between 2014 and 2026, over 1,600 convicts were sentenced to death, yet only five were actually hanged—Yakub Memon and the four Nirbhaya case convicts. Today, 574 criminals have exhausted all legal appeals, but remain alive because mercy petitions are stalled. Cases like Kopardi, Nayana Pujari, and Shraddha Walkar s