Last week, the Supreme Court set aside the death sentence of a man accused, along with others, of firing on and killing multiple people over suspected political enmity in Uttar Pradesh’s.
While stating that capital punishment cannot be ignored as long as it is in the law books, it also qualified that it should be resorted to only in the rarest of rare cases.
Commuting the death sentence awarded to a man convicted of raping and killing a minor, the court asked judges to also consider the mitigating factors in favour of life imprisonment.