CAN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BE JUSTIFIED? INTRODUCTION: “Punishment is justice for the unjust” Since time immemorial, death penalty has been used to punish the most heinous crimes in existence. Also known as capital punishment, it has been observed as an institutionalized practice introduced for the purpose of deliberately executing persons, following actual or supposed misconduct from
Author : Darshi Sanghvi EQUIVALENT CITATIONS: 1978 CriLJ 798 BENCH M Rao, Punnayya INTRODUCTION The significance of the Indian Penal Code in the efficient administration of justice cannot be stressed enough. It is this set of rules that covers all the substantive aspects of criminal law and gives an apt punishment to the culprits.
Author : AKASH KRISHNAN Citation: WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO.128 OF 2014 Bench: Dipak Misra, Rohinton Fali Nariman, Uday Umesh Lalit INTRODUCTION The word commutation can be defined as reducing the magnitude of the punishment given to an individual from the one that is served upon him on conviction. The form of the punishment may be
