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A condemned man can’t fight death penalty endlessly: CJI
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- Chief Justice of India (CJI) recently said a condemned person cannot fight the death penalty endlessly and it was important for the capital punishment to reach its finality.
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- Cardinal duty:
(1) The CJI said it was not for a judge to forgive a crime.
(2) The cardinal duty of a judge was to see if the punishment was proportionate to the crime.
(3) The law applied whether the criminal was a first-timer or a hardened one.
- Centre Filed an Application: The oral remarks came a day after the Centre filed an application, in the background of the Nirbhaya case, to modify a 2014 judgment of the court in the Shatrughan Chauhan case.
- 2014 guidelines
(1) The 2014 verdict had issued guidelines, which primarily held that an unexplained delay in carrying out an execution would lead to commutation of the death penalty to life imprisonment.
(2) In its application, the government asked the court to set short deadlines for death row convicts to seek legal remedies.
(3) It wanted the court to limit the time for filing curative petitions.
(4) A mercy plea should be filed within a week of issuance of death warrant.
Sources
The Hindu