Today’s “Word of the Day” is dissonance and it is a noun meaning “difference, variance, dissimilarity, contradiction, incongruity, discrepancy, inconsistency, disagreement”.
Example Sentence: Death penalty sentencing reform from the Supreme Court has persistently failed to percolate to trial courts, pointing to the futility of this exercise. More importantly, Project 39A’s 2023 report shows a dissonance between the narrow sentencing question that the Court prioritises over the actual scope of the crisis that runs across the criminal process in death cases — from the police to prisons. In effect, the Supreme Court is perhaps undertaking an exercise that does too little, too late.
This word is present in India’s burgeoning death penalty crisis and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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