Supreme Court says prior conviction cannot be sole ground to impose death penalty; commutes murder convict's sentence

The criminal history of a convict by itself is not a ground to award the death penalty, observed the Supreme Court while commuting the sentence of a murder convict from the death penalty to life imprisonment.

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