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Arrange the following judgements of the Supreme Court on the issue of constitutionality of death…

The death-penalty decisions were delivered in the order Jagmohan Singh v. State of U.P. (1973), Rajendra Prasad v. State of U.P. (1979), Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab…

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Arrange the following judgements of the Supreme Court on the issue of constitutionality of death penalty in chronological order :
(a) Rajendra Prasad V State of UP
(b) Machhi Singh V State of Punjab
(c) Jagmohan Singh V State of UP
(d) Bachan Singh V State of Punjab

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The death-penalty decisions were delivered in the order Jagmohan Singh v. State of U.P. (1973), Rajendra Prasad v. State of U.P. (1979), Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab (1980) and Machhi Singh v. State of Punjab (1983), giving the sequence "(c), (a), (d), (b)".

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