Life imprisonment is the rule, death penalty the exception: SC

Why in news?
  • A Bench of Justices N.V. Ramana, Mohan M. Shantanagoudar and Indira Banerjee observed this in its March 12 verdict.
  • Death penalty only when life term is ‘inappropriate punishment’.
  • The judgment was based on an appeal filed by a man sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a five-year-old in Madhya Pradesh.
More in news
  • What SC has observed:
    (1) If a court finds it difficult to make a choice between death penalty and life imprisonment, it should opt for the lesser punishment.
    (2) Life imprisonment is the rule to which the death penalty is the exception.
    (3) The death sentence must be imposed only when life imprisonment appears to be an altogether inappropriate punishment
Source
The hindu




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 19th Mar 2019
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