There is a worldwide movement on abolishing Death Penalty. The present study attempts to understand the public perception about Death Penalty in India. In India, death penalty is awarded in rarest of rare cases.1 The rarest of rare doctrine prevents the Indian Judiciary from giving Death Penalty to convicts for all crimes. Only in certain crimes where the gravity is such that Death Penalty is the only remedy and no other alternative seems fit as a punishment. The Indian Supreme Court has allowed the death penalty to be carried out in only 4 instances since 1995.