New Delhi, July 17 -- The Supreme Court in separate cases decided on Wednesday ordered two death row convicts to remain in jail for the rest of their lives without remission considering elaborate reports of their social background study, psychological analysis and the mitigating factors to save them from the gallows.
The bench headed by justice Vikram Nath, which decided both cases, underlined that in death penalty cases, the high courts should take into consideration the psychological analysis and the social setting of the convict and not rely solely on the brutality of the crime while affirming punishment.
Both cases that came before the court were gruesome and diabolical. The first instance was from Karnataka where a man mercilessly ...
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