The challenge of reforming death penalty sentencing
2 years, 9 months ago

The challenge of reforming death penalty sentencing

The Hindu  

There has been an intense and persistent crisis in the fairness of administering the death penalty in India for many decades now that has been acknowledged in judgments of the Supreme Court of India, by former judges, lawyers, researchers, etc. Individualised sentencing The constitutionality of the death penalty was upheld in 1980 in Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab, which greatly emphasised ‘individualised sentencing’ and called upon courts to consider the ‘crime’ and the circumstances of the accused. However, since Bachan Singh there have been disagreements on which cases warrant the imposition of the death penalty and the nature of information about the accused relevant for sentencing. In the final judgment delivered recently, the Supreme Court took important steps towards realising an ‘individualised sentencing enquiry’ as envisaged by the court in Bachan Singh 42 years ago. While one hopes that the procedure adopted by the Supreme Court in nuancing sentencing in death penalty cases would be followed by lower courts, the real challenge would emerge with equipping courts to understand such rich information.

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SC sets aside death penalty to man convicted of killing wife, daughter
1 month, 1 week ago

SC sets aside death penalty to man convicted of killing wife, daughter

Hindustan Times  

India’s criminal justice system disproportionately disadvantages the accused, especially those who are economically or socially vulnerable, the Supreme Court has lamented while setting aside the death penalty awarded to a man convicted of murdering his wife and 12-year-old daughter. The court held that the accused was denied a fair trial due to procedural deficiencies, including the absence of legal representation …

Capital Punishment An Exception; Even In Cases Of Multiple Murders, Avoid Death Sentence If There's Possibility Of Reform : Supreme Court
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Capital Punishment An Exception; Even In Cases Of Multiple Murders, Avoid Death Sentence If There's Possibility Of Reform : Supreme Court

Live Law  

Recently, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man for murdering his wife and four minor daughters but commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment without remission, citing a lack of criminal antecedents, prison reports indicating reform potential, and precedents against the death penalty in multiple-murder cases.The Court added that even in cases involving multiple murders, no. Recently, the …

Death Penalty in India: Courts Clash Over Reform Standards in Murder Cases
2 months ago

Death Penalty in India: Courts Clash Over Reform Standards in Murder Cases

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 26, 2025 12:11 IST - 6 MINS READ The rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the R.G. Just when everyone assumed that the convict in the case, the prime accused Sanjay Roy, was sure to be sentenced to death in view of the public outcry against the gruesome incident, the Additional Sessions Judge, 1st Court, …

5 who raped, killed Chhattisgarh teen, murdered 2 family members sentenced to death
2 months ago

5 who raped, killed Chhattisgarh teen, murdered 2 family members sentenced to death

Hindustan Times  

RAIPUR: A special court in Chhattisgarh’s Korba has handed down a death penalty verdict for five men who raped and killed a 16-year-old tribal girl before murdering her two family members including a four-year-old girl. Special public prosecutor Sunil Kumar Mishra said he had sought the death penalty for all six accused Additional sessions judge Mamta Bhojwani, who delivered the …

Current Scenario On Death Penalty In Light Of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Current Scenario On Death Penalty In Light Of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Live Law  

India has in the past voted against a draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on the abolition of the death penalty. As per Sec 22 of BNSS, a sentence of death may be passed by: A High Court A Sessions Judge or Additional Sessions Judge subject to the confirmation by the High Court. EXECUTION OF DEATH SENTENCE Chapter …

Created Fear & Vulnerability Amongst Women, Had Profound Impact On Society: Kerala High Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Man Convicted Of Brutal Rape-Murder
10 months, 1 week ago

Created Fear & Vulnerability Amongst Women, Had Profound Impact On Society: Kerala High Court Confirms Death Sentence Of Man Convicted Of Brutal Rape-Murder

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court today confirmed the death sentence imposed upon Muhammed Ameer-Ul Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam for committing the rape and murder of a law student in Perumbavoor on April 28, 2016. It said, “The Court stated that the brutality committed by the accused on the body of the victim to cause her death can only be …

Capital term review, mitigation probe of death row convicts
1 year, 10 months ago

Capital term review, mitigation probe of death row convicts

New Indian Express  

The order is significant as it revisits, once again, the often ignored aspect of death penalty jurisprudence. Sure, the two prisoners who are serving death sentences have committed heinous crimes: one involves a techie convicted for murdering his female friend’s three-year-old daughter and mother-in-law and injuring her husband at Attingal in Thiruvananthapuram in 2014, while the second convict is a …

If Prosecution Proposes Death Sentence, It Must Produce Before Trial Court Information About Background Of Accused : Supreme Court
1 year, 11 months ago

If Prosecution Proposes Death Sentence, It Must Produce Before Trial Court Information About Background Of Accused : Supreme Court

Live Law  

In a notable judgment, the Supreme Court has held that in cases where the offences are so heinous that death sentence is warranted, the prosecution must produce before the trial court all materials which are relevant to assess the mitigating circumstances favouring the accused. Trial Courts cannot impose fixed term sentences The Supreme Court also reiterated that the trial court …

Indian-origin minister about to scrap mandatory death sentence in THIS nation I DETAILS
1 year, 11 months ago

Indian-origin minister about to scrap mandatory death sentence in THIS nation I DETAILS

India TV News  

Malaysia's Parliament on Monday approved a bill that would scrap mandatory death penalties and limit capital punishment to serious crimes as part of wide-ranging reforms, bringing possible reprieves to more than 1,300 prisoners on death row. While the death sentence remains, courts will now be given the option of imposing jail sentences of up to 40 years, Deputy Law Minister …

165 Death Sentences Awarded By Trial Courts In 2022, Highest Ever In A Year Since 2000 : Project 39A Report
2 years, 1 month ago

165 Death Sentences Awarded By Trial Courts In 2022, Highest Ever In A Year Since 2000 : Project 39A Report

Live Law  

In 2022, trial courts imposed the largest number of death sentences in a single year since 2000 while the death row population was the highest it has been since 2004. Overview of Death Sentences In 2022, trial courts imposed death sentences on 165 persons - the largest number of death sentences imposed in a single year in over two decades …

SC Deprecates 'dilatory Tactics' Adopted by Parties in Death Penalty Case
2 years, 4 months ago

SC Deprecates 'dilatory Tactics' Adopted by Parties in Death Penalty Case

News 18  

The Supreme Court on Monday strongly deprecated the “dilatory tactics” adopted by the parties and their advocates for “deflecting the course of justice” in a murder case, where seven of the convicts have been awarded death sentence. Justice Bela M Trivedi, who was also part of the bench, took a strict view and said, “Such a dilatory tactics adopted by …

The death penalty and humanising criminal justice
2 years, 5 months ago

The death penalty and humanising criminal justice

The Hindu  

As a conservative agency of the state, the Supreme Court of India is ordinarily expected to tread the path laid out by the written text of law and the binding precedents. On policies and uniformity The focus here is on reframing ‘Framing Guidelines Regarding Potential Mitigating Circumstances to be Considered While Imposing Death Sentences’, a decision authored by the three …

DC Edit | SC move to set guidelines on death penalty welcome
2 years, 6 months ago

DC Edit | SC move to set guidelines on death penalty welcome

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of the Supreme Court to set up a Constitution Bench to lay down guidelines for the courts on providing a convict a real and meaningful hearing before deciding on a death penalty is a refreshing step that will further civilise the criminal justice delivery system in our country. The only protection a person can have against incarceration or …

Death Penalty: SC Refers to 5-judge Bench Case on Framing Guidelines on Mitigating Circumstances
2 years, 6 months ago

Death Penalty: SC Refers to 5-judge Bench Case on Framing Guidelines on Mitigating Circumstances

News 18  

The Supreme Court on Monday referred to a five-judge Constitution bench a suo motu plea on framing of guidelines on how and when potential mitigating circumstances be considered by courts during trial in cases which entail the death penalty as the maximum punishment. A bench headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit said it was of the opinion that this …

Death Penalty : Legislative And Judicial Chronology From Bachan Singh Vs. State Of Punjab (1980) To Manoj Singh Vs. State Of M.P(2022)
2 years, 7 months ago

Death Penalty : Legislative And Judicial Chronology From Bachan Singh Vs. State Of Punjab (1980) To Manoj Singh Vs. State Of M.P(2022)

Live Law  

Death Penalty, one of the punishments that can be awarded to an accused in India- has always been subject to diverse views, criticism and repeated evaluations of being effective or ineffective in retribution or being a necessary action in few cases. The five judge bench in Bachan Singh's case laid down elaborate frame-line and guiding factors to be taken into …

Supreme Court Allows Project 39A-NLUD To Interview Death Row Convict For Report On Character & Behaviour To Analyse Mitigating Circumstances
2 years, 9 months ago

Supreme Court Allows Project 39A-NLUD To Interview Death Row Convict For Report On Character & Behaviour To Analyse Mitigating Circumstances

Live Law  

The Supreme Court recently allowed the prayer of a death row convict to have an interview with a mitigating investigator associated with Project 39A of National Law University Delhi to submit a report regarding mitigating circumstances.The Court opined that it would be essential to have the particulars regarding the character and behaviour of accused, on record, in death penalty matters …

A new track for capital punishment jurisprudence
2 years, 10 months ago

A new track for capital punishment jurisprudence

The Hindu  

A recent trend in the evolution of jurisprudence around the death penalty in India may reset judicial thinking around sentencing and have long-term ramifications in the awarding of capital punishment. The Court has also initiated a suo motu writ petition to delve deep into these issues on key aspects surrounding our understanding of death penalty sentencing. Building on this, the …

Revisiting death penalty jurisprudence
2 years, 11 months ago

Revisiting death penalty jurisprudence

The Hindu  

On April 22, a Bench of the Supreme Court of India, led by Justice U.U. Several other cases also were decided by ignoring the Bachan Singh doctrine, as noted by the Supreme Court itself in Santhosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar vs State of Maharashtra and Rajesh Kumar vs State. Taking empirical lessons from the fate of Bachan Singh, the Supreme Court …

Supreme Court underscores need for holistic picture of convicts facing death penalty sentencing
2 years, 11 months ago

Supreme Court underscores need for holistic picture of convicts facing death penalty sentencing

The Hindu  

A man condemned to death for the brutal gangrape of a seven-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh has turned the spotlight on a question that has haunted trial judges — do they really know the person they send to the gallows? The Madhya Pradesh High Court, when the case came up in appeal, reasoned that death penalty was an effective deterrent …

Death Penalty- "We Need To Acknowledge The Person We Are Dealing With At least At The Stage Of Sentencing": Orissa HC Chief Justice Muralidhar
3 years, 5 months ago

Death Penalty- "We Need To Acknowledge The Person We Are Dealing With At least At The Stage Of Sentencing": Orissa HC Chief Justice Muralidhar

Live Law  

"One aspect of this report is to give us another narrative on the person who has been convicted of a crime is. ""This report points out that you need to acknowledge the person you are dealing with at least at the stage of sentencing that person to death." Orissa High Court Chief Justice Justice Muralidhar made the above remarks at …

[VIDEO] Deathworthy - A Discussion On Mental Health Perspective Of Death Penalty -Justice S. Muralidhar
3 years, 5 months ago

[VIDEO] Deathworthy - A Discussion On Mental Health Perspective Of Death Penalty -Justice S. Muralidhar

Live Law  

Five years of Project 39A's work to understand psychiatric illnesses and intellectual disability among death row prisoners in India has culminated in Deathworthy: A Mental Health Perspective of the Death Penalty.Join us for a discussion on the report at 5:30 pm on 20th October 2021.The panel comprises • Justice S. Muralidhar • Professor Pratima. Five years of Project 39A's work …

Batla House Case: Is Ariz Khan’s Death Sentence ‘Rarest of Rare’?
4 years ago

Batla House Case: Is Ariz Khan’s Death Sentence ‘Rarest of Rare’?

The Quint  

In Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra, the Supreme Court provided two steps that must be followed to evaluate whether the death penalty would be the appropriate sentence. Identification and balancing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances of both the crime and the criminal to see whether the case would fall under the category of ‘rarest of rare’. The …

ILS Webinar: Revisiting Jurisprudence On Capital Punishment In India [11th July]
4 years, 8 months ago

ILS Webinar: Revisiting Jurisprudence On Capital Punishment In India [11th July]

Live Law  

Indian Law Society's Law College, Criminal Law Cell is organizing a webinar on the "Revisiting Jurisprudence on Capital Punishment in India". The webinar aims to get insights on different aspects of the death penalty such as philosophies behind it, constitutionality, ground realities, and discussion on both abolition and retention of the death penalty in India. Day & Date: Saturday, 11th …

[Death Penalty] Sentencing Taken As A Formality; Trial Courts Need Training : Sr Adv Rebecca John
4 years, 10 months ago

[Death Penalty] Sentencing Taken As A Formality; Trial Courts Need Training : Sr Adv Rebecca John

Live Law  

Project 39A at National Law University, Delhi, held a webinar on the topic – 40 years of Death Penalty Sentencing; The Uncertain Legacy of Bachan Singh. "Sentencing in trial courts is done in a super-fast manner based on an incorrect understanding of the judgements of the Supreme Court and this becomes the basis of errors that take place in superior …

Death Penalty Sentencing in India's Trial Courts: Confusion in the Apex Court Wreaks Havoc in Courts Below
4 years, 10 months ago

Death Penalty Sentencing in India's Trial Courts: Confusion in the Apex Court Wreaks Havoc in Courts Below

Live Law  

Project 39A has released a report titled DeathPenalty Sentencing in Trial Courts: Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra containing findings from a study of all capital cases decided by trial courts of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra between 2000 and 2015. Contrary to the Constitution Bench decision in Bachan Singh which emphasised the relevance of mitigating factors in capital sentencing, trial …

SC Issues Order Prescribing Fixed Timelines For Listing Of Death Penalty Criminal Appeals [Read Order]
5 years, 1 month ago

SC Issues Order Prescribing Fixed Timelines For Listing Of Death Penalty Criminal Appeals [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court Registry has released an Office Order laying down timelines and guidelines for listing of Criminal Appeals involving Death Penalty. The following are the prescribed Guidelines that have been formulated: - 1) In matters where Death Penalty has been upheld/confirmed and the Supreme Court has granted leave, the Appeal shall be listed not later than Six Months before …

Centre moves SC seeking seven-day deadline for execution of death row convicts after issuance of death warrant
5 years, 2 months ago

Centre moves SC seeking seven-day deadline for execution of death row convicts after issuance of death warrant

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court for fixing a deadline of seven days for execution of death penalty of condemned prisoners after issuance of black warrant. In an application, the MHA sought a direction “to mandate all competent courts, state governments, prison authorities in country to issue death warrant of a convict within seven days of …

As Hyderabad rape, murder case triggers calls for harsher penalties, how political posturing prevents death penalty for rapist-killers
5 years, 3 months ago

As Hyderabad rape, murder case triggers calls for harsher penalties, how political posturing prevents death penalty for rapist-killers

Firstpost  

Amid calls for the death penalty for rapists, in the aftermath of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian, this ringside view proves how political posturing can contrast with reality, with politicians themselves protecting the rapist-killer by permitting inordinate delays and presidential pardons. Additional research on each of their five convictions to double-check that all cases had been awarded …

Interest Of Victim And Society At Large Must Also Be Kept In View While Sentencing: SC [Read Judgment]
5 years, 7 months ago

Interest Of Victim And Society At Large Must Also Be Kept In View While Sentencing: SC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has observed the courts must also keep in view the interest of the victim and society at large while sentencing in criminal matters.In Suryakant Baburao @ Ramrao Phad vs. State of Maharashtra, the High Court reduced the sentence of imprisonment from seven years to five years to an 'attempt to murder' accused. The Supreme Court has observed …

Kathua Verdict: Do We Need a Debate on Death Penalty for Convicts?
5 years, 9 months ago

Kathua Verdict: Do We Need a Debate on Death Penalty for Convicts?

The Quint  

This is not to say that judgments can’t be criticised – it is entirely legitimate to critically analyse decisions of the court and point out the flaws in them. However, such criticism should only arise in cases where the judge has failed to do something: failed to consider a relevant point of law, failed to consider relevant facts, failed to …

'Justified': Bombay HC upholds death for repeat rape offenders
5 years, 9 months ago

'Justified': Bombay HC upholds death for repeat rape offenders

India TV News  

In a significant order, the Bombay High Court on Monday upheld the constitutional validity of the Indian Penal Code's section providing for either life sentence or death penalty for repeat rape offences. Section 376E - added in 2013 as one of the amendments after the horrific Delhi December 2012 gang-rape and murder case - says that if a person has …

When SC Ignored Precedents To Confirm A Death Sentence
6 years ago

When SC Ignored Precedents To Confirm A Death Sentence

Live Law  

The court officer called Item no. Ironically, the judgment acquitting Shinde and five others, was authored by Justice MR Shah, who also penned a 27 page judgment, confirming death sentence awarded to Singh. Justice Kurian Joseph led bench, in November 2018, had held that, before awarding death sentence, a proper psychological/psychiatric evaluation is to be done by courts to assess …

SC Acquits Six Men to Whom It Had Given Death Sentence in 2009
6 years ago

SC Acquits Six Men to Whom It Had Given Death Sentence in 2009

The Quint  

The judgment of the court could have far-reaching consequences because it was a complete U-turn on the decision originally taken by the Supreme Court itself 10 years ago. The legal error made by Justice Pasayat in the 2009 decision had been made in six other cases, and there was a significant issue with contrasting death penalty decisions during his tenure …

Time Has Come To Examine The Need For Death Penalty As Punishment Especially Its Purpose And Practice: Justice Kurian Joseph, Other Two Judges Disagree [Read Judgment]
6 years, 4 months ago

Time Has Come To Examine The Need For Death Penalty As Punishment Especially Its Purpose And Practice: Justice Kurian Joseph, Other Two Judges Disagree [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

“Every death penalty case before the court deals with a human life that enjoys certain constitutional protections and if life is to be taken away, then the process must adhere to the strictest and highest constitutional standards. Our conscience as judges, which is guided by constitutional principles, cannot allow anything less than that.” Justice Kurian Joseph, while commuting death penalty …

Death penalty for minor rape is a legislative scarecrow
6 years, 10 months ago

Death penalty for minor rape is a legislative scarecrow

Hindustan Times  

Most conversations on the death penalty gradually ascend in decibel, proceeding from debate to damnation. A candlelight protest rally demanding justice for the Kathua minor rape victim, Kolkata, April 14, 2018 The first issue is with capital punishment, a contentious issue, which conflicts even self-proclaimed humanitarians. After examining the issue in 2015, former chairperson of the law commission, Justice AP …

Why Salman Khan’s Sentence Is Harsh & Retributive? There Are No Statutory Sentencing Guidelines In India
6 years, 11 months ago

Why Salman Khan’s Sentence Is Harsh & Retributive? There Are No Statutory Sentencing Guidelines In India

Live Law  

Criminal Justice system is an instrument of state and is a key index of the state of democracy. “If the criminal law as a whole is the Cinderella of jurisprudence, then the law of sentencing is Cinderella’s illegitimate baby”, said British criminologist Nigel Walker. In a country where people were given death penalty to satisfy so-called ‘collective conscience of nation’, …

Jigisha Murder Case “Not Rarest Of Rare”: Delhi HC Commutes Death Of 2, Says Conduct As Under-Trial Prisoners Not Sufficient Marker Of Potential For Reform [Read Judgment]
7 years, 2 months ago

Jigisha Murder Case “Not Rarest Of Rare”: Delhi HC Commutes Death Of 2, Says Conduct As Under-Trial Prisoners Not Sufficient Marker Of Potential For Reform [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of two of the three convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case, while confirming the life term awarded by the trial court to the third convict as it held that the crime could not be characterised as the “rarest of rare” warranting the award of capital punishment.A bench of …

Explained: Death Penalty- Matters Of Judgment
7 years, 3 months ago

Explained: Death Penalty- Matters Of Judgment

Live Law  

The Centre on the Death Penalty of the National Law University, released on November 8, a Judges’ Opinion Study, titled “Matters of Judgment” on the death penalty and the Criminal Justice System. A: The aim of the study is to explore the opinions of former judges of the Supreme Court of India on the death penalty and more generally on …

Experts Discuss the Death Penalty and the Judiciary's Role in India
7 years, 3 months ago

Experts Discuss the Death Penalty and the Judiciary's Role in India

Live Law  

The National Law University of Delhi (NLU-D) hosted an event to celebrate the release of the research compilation of the Centre on Death Penalty - 'Matters of Judgement'. The study, based on interviews with 60 former judges of the Supreme Court, sheds light on the complexities of the death penalty and the criminal justice system. It reveals that convicts often …

NLU-D Centre On Death Penalty Releases ‘Matters Of Judgment’ Report On Award Of Capital Punishment [Read Report]
7 years, 3 months ago

NLU-D Centre On Death Penalty Releases ‘Matters Of Judgment’ Report On Award Of Capital Punishment [Read Report]

Live Law  

The National Law University of Delhi on Friday hosted an event at India International Centre, New Delhi, to celebrate the release of the research compilation of the Centre on Death Penalty -‘Matters of Judgement’, an opinion study on the death penalty and the criminal justice system with 60 former judges of the Supreme Court. The Centre on the Death Penalty …

Criminal sentencing law dating back to 14th Century to be simplified to improve judicial system
7 years, 8 months ago

Criminal sentencing law dating back to 14th Century to be simplified to improve judicial system

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery The constant arrival of new sentencing laws heightens the risk …

Death penalty comes with the jurisprudence of outrage
7 years, 10 months ago

Death penalty comes with the jurisprudence of outrage

The Hindu  

There was nothing unexpected about the final verdict of the Supreme Court in the ‘Nirbhaya’ case. In the Nirbhaya case, too, the citations inevitably lead to the main point drawn from Machhi Singh that capital punishment is to be given in the rarest of rare cases “when its collective conscience is so shocked that it will expect the holders of …

Supreme Court upholds death penalty in Delhi gang rape case
7 years, 10 months ago

Supreme Court upholds death penalty in Delhi gang rape case

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court upheld on Friday the death sentences of four men convicted in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi in 2012, describing the crime as “a story of a different world” that sparked a “tsunami of shock”. The court used words like “gruesome”, “gross”, “sadistic” and “beastly” in its 429-page, hard-hitting …

‘Bilkis Bano case was equally, if not more, brutal’
7 years, 10 months ago

‘Bilkis Bano case was equally, if not more, brutal’

The Hindu  

Drawing parallels between the Nirbhaya and the post-Godhra Bilkis Bano cases, some lawyers said there’s no uniformity when it comes to handing out punishments. We have different standards of approach for different cases.” Ms. John said Ms. Bano’s case was equally, if not more, brutal, and yet the Bombay High Court had declined to give death penalty to the perpetrators. …

India’s top court upholds death sentences in gang-rape case that shocked nation
7 years, 10 months ago

India’s top court upholds death sentences in gang-rape case that shocked nation

LA Times  

India’s top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the capital nearly five years ago. The court held that the nature of the crime, which triggered massive protests across India, made it an appropriate case for the …

A Systemic Trend In India In Awarding Death Penalty Against Marginalized Populations: Dr.Anup Surendranath [Video]
7 years, 11 months ago

A Systemic Trend In India In Awarding Death Penalty Against Marginalized Populations: Dr.Anup Surendranath [Video]

Live Law  

On 7 March, 2017 NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism hosted its eighth speaker, Dr. AnupSurendranath. He started off by highlighting the dichotomy of opinions that exists with respect to death penalty byreading excerpts from the US Supreme Court decision of Callins v. Collins. The Supreme Court can and has dismissed death penalty SLPsin limine.Justice Nariman, speaking for majority in the …

Death penalty for rape of minor: Bill proposed in Madhya Pradesh would only aggravate the problem
7 years, 11 months ago

Death penalty for rape of minor: Bill proposed in Madhya Pradesh would only aggravate the problem

Firstpost  

More often than not, the proponents of the death penalty little realise that their demand for death of child rapists would only exacerbate the problem. More often than not, the proponents of the death penalty little realise that their demand would only exacerbate the problem. Besides, there are other implacable, structural problems one would need to grapple with if the …

Emotions and word of law
8 years ago

Emotions and word of law

Deccan Chronicle  

Judges should never be bloodthirsty — a real concern for the dignity of human life postulates resistance to taking a life through law’s instrumentality. That ought not to be done save in the rarest of rare cases when the alternative option is unquestionably foreclosed.” The Supreme Court spoke thus in the Bachan Singh case. In its 35th report in December …

Rape And Murder Of Minor Daughter: MP HC Commutes Death Sentence To Life Imprisonment [Read Judgment]
8 years, 1 month ago

Rape And Murder Of Minor Daughter: MP HC Commutes Death Sentence To Life Imprisonment [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has commuted a death sentence to life imprisonment of a man convicted in rape and murder of his minor daughter for his case do not fall in rarest or rare category.According to the court mitigating facts and circumstances in the case show the man sentenced to gallows is not a hardcore criminal or threat /menace …

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