The Telangana High Court has commuted the death penalty of three convicts in a case of gang rape and murder of a Schedule Caste women in 2019. The court said sentencing the convicts to undergo life.
Trial judges are going about [death] sentencing by almost exclusively focusing on the nature of the crime which is not what the law requires sentencing judges to do, says Anup Surendranath, executive director of Project 39A
In a notable judgment, the Supreme Court has held that in cases where the offences are so heinous that death sentence is warranted, the prosecution must produce before the trial court all materials.
Expressing remorse/repentance is widely held to be a part of the moral character of an accused in contrast to bad character for which he is punished.[1] Consideration of remorse as an aggravating.
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