India, Feb. 11 -- The Centre told Parliament on Tuesday that 544 capital punishment convicts were lodged in various jails across the country as of December 31, 2022.

Union minister of state for home, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in a written reply to a query by Deepak Dev Adhikari in the Lok Sabha, also said that the number of death row prisoners whose execution is still pending and the number of persons filing mercy petitions with the authorities concerned are not centrally maintained.

Citing the data from the Crime in India 2022 report of National Crimes Record Bureau (NCRB), the reply suggested that with 95 convicts, Uttar Pradesh topped the list of highest number of death row convicts lodged in jails as of December 31, 2022, followed by Guja...