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.
The Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of Irfan from the Bareilly Central Prison, who was earlier on death row. He was accused of burning the deceased to death after they allegedly opposed his second marriage.
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death sentence imposed on a flower-seller convicted for the rape and murder of a minor in 2020 in Tamil Nadu's Pudukkottai.
Mohammed Ameerul Islam, the convict sentenced to death by a Kerala court for the rape and murder of a Dalit law student, moved the Supreme Court on Monday requesting that he be transferred from Kerala to Assam.
The Court said that the the appellant was a menace to the society since he killed six innocent persons only because his wife opposed his illicit relationship with his sister-in-law.