In which one of the following judgments of the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India, the…
Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab laid down the rarest-of-rare standard in 1980. Life imprisonment is the rule for murder, while death is an exception reserved for cases where…
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In which one of the following judgments of the Constitutional 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 standard in 1980. Life imprisonment is the rule for murder, while death is an exception reserved for cases where the alternative is unquestionably foreclosed. The Court therefore required careful consideration of mitigation rather than automatic death sentencing.
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