In which one of the following judgments of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, the…
Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab laid down the rarest-of-rare principle for imposing the death penalty. The decision treats life imprisonment as the rule and death as an…
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In which one of the following judgments of the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India, the ‘rarest of rare’ principle in the award of death penalty was first laid down ?
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Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab laid down the rarest-of-rare principle for imposing the death penalty. The decision treats life imprisonment as the rule and death as an exceptional punishment when the alternative is unquestionably foreclosed.
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