New York, Nov. 14 -- India voted against a United Nations General Assembly draft resolution (A/C.3/81/L.43) calling for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, asserting that there is no international consensus against capital punishment and that every sovereign state has the right to determine its own legal system and penalties.

During the same session at the Third Committee's 43rd plenary meeting of the 81st UN General Assembly on Friday (local time), India also weighed in on a separate draft resolution (A/C.3/81/L.37) concerning extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. While New Delhi supported the adoption of (A/C.3/81/L.37) overall, it formally disassociated itself from a specific paragraph that equated lawful capital p...