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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: Why should we care about mental health of death row prisoners? | In Focus
Description: The welfare of convicts who have been sentenced to death is probably the last, if at all it figures, in anyone’s list of welfare priorities. Since their entire identity gets reduced to one act -- the crime they are accused of – they are generally dehumanised, and people find it difficult to understand why we should care about the mental health of someone convicted of, say, gang-rape or a brutal murder – the ‘rarest of rare’ cases where the death penalty is invoked.But there are problems in the way the criminal justice system deals with the mental health of...