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Showing posts with label capital punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capital punishment. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 March 2025

LLM Notes: Supreme Court Judgment on Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980) in IRAC format (Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion)

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    The Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980) judgment reshaped India’s capital punishment jurisprudence by introducing the "rarest o...
Saturday, 1 February 2025

Supreme Court: The power to impose a modified punishment providing for any specific term of incarceration or till the end of the convict's life as an alternate to death penalty, can be exercised only by the High Court and the Supreme Court.

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  This Court, while exercising its appellate jurisdiction under Article 136 of the Constitution of India, possesses the authority to scrutin...

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

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Guided by the above facts, we must scrutinize not only the nature of the offence but also the totality of the offender’s circumstances. In t...
Thursday, 23 January 2025

Examination of the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment in India

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  The constitutionality of capital punishment in India has been a subject of extensive legal scrutiny and debate, primarily revolving around...
Saturday, 2 November 2024

Understanding the Death Penalty: Constitutional Validity and Judicial Interpretations in India

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Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of ...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

Supreme court guidelines about passing of death penalty

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 It is clearly well settled that normal punishment for the offence Under Section 302 Indian Penal Code is life imprisonment but in a case ...
Sunday, 6 October 2019

Whether court should award death sentence in case of rape or murder of child?

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 On a detailed examination of precedents, it appears to us that it would be totally imprudent to lay down an absolute principle of law t...