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Which 1980 Constitution Bench decision of the Supreme Court of India articulated the rarest-of-rare…

The majority in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab held in 1980 that death may be imposed only in the rarest of rare cases when the alternative of life imprisonment is…

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Which 1980 Constitution Bench decision of the Supreme Court of India articulated the rarest-of-rare standard for imposing the death penalty for murder?

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The majority in Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab held in 1980 that death may be imposed only in the rarest of rare cases when the alternative of life imprisonment is foreclosed.

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Mithu struck down the mandatory death sentence for murder by a person under a sentence of life imprisonment. It followed the Bachan Singh decision.

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Bachan Singh upheld the discretionary sentencing provision and articulated the exceptional threshold for imposing death.

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Selvi concerned compelled narcoanalysis and related investigative techniques.

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Kathi Kalu Oghad concerned testimonial compulsion and physical identifying material.

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