DEATH PENALTY CONFIRMED-Accordingly, these appeals are dismissed; conviction of the appellant of offences under Sections 363, 365, 376(2)(f), 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 is confirmed; and the sentences awarded to the appellant, including the death sentence for the offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, are also confirmed.
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Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965
An Act to abolish capital punishment in the case of persons convicted in Great Britain of murder or convicted of murder or a corresponding offence by court-martial and, in connection therewith, to make further provision for the punishment of persons so convicted.
Emperor vs Khudiram Bose-13/06/1908
The accused is not a mere youth but a young man who has attained the age fixed for majority in this country. The crime was not committed at the instigation of older men present on the spot. For twenty days the accused and his companion had been in Mozufferpore watching for an opportunity to commit the crime, and when they thought the opportunity offered itself they carried it out with deliberation and determination after first taking precautions to avoid detection and secure escape. It is impossible to treat the accused as a young man who did not know fully well the serious nature of the crime he was committing.
Voltaire on the Punishment of Death
The Romans never condemned a citizen to death, unless for crimes which concerned the safety of the state. These our masters, our first legislators, were careful of the blood of their fellow-citizens; but we are extravagant with the blood of ours.
Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 -Australia
Whereby any law referred to in subsection 3(2) (including a provision that would, but for this Act, have effect by virtue of such a law) it is provided that a person is liable to the punishment of death, the reference to the punishment of death shall be read, construed and applied as if the penalty of imprisonment for life were substituted for that punishment.
Bachan Singh Vs State of Punjab-16/08/1982
constitutional issues arising out of the challenge to the validity of the death penalty
USA FEDERAL PROSECUTIONS IN WHICH THE DEATH PENALTY MAY BE SOUGHT
Federal death penalty procedure is based on the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 The death penalty procedures introduced by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, codified in Title 21, were repealed on March 6, 2006, when President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005.
Death Sentence
In Ramnaresh and Others v. State of Chhattisgarh, (2012) 4 SCC 257 this Court considered the import of governing principles regarding death sentence and summed up that it is the cumulative effect of both the aggravating and mitigating circumstances that…
Governing principles regarding death sentence
In Ramnaresh and Others v. State of Chhattisgarh, (2012) 4 SCC 257 this Court considered the import of governing principles regarding death sentence and summed up that it is the cumulative effect of both the aggravating and mitigating circumstances that…
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Yakub Abdul Razak Memon Vs. State of Maharashtra
Yakub Memon was executed in Nagpur Central Jail on 30th July 2015 and became the lone death convict of 1993 Mumbai Serial Blast case. Yakub Abdul Razak Memon Vs. State of Maharashtra Thr. Stf. CBI, Mumbai [9th April, 2015] Yakub…
Bachan Singh Vs State of Punjab-rarest of rare cases principle first applied
09-05-1980 Constitutionality of Section 302 of the Penal Code in so far as it provides for the death sentence as also the challenge to the constitutionality of Section 354 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 fails and is…
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DEATH PENALTY IN INDIA
INDIAN COURTS ARE VERY SELECTIVE AND CHOOSY ON IMPOSING DEATH PENALTY
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