https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286834 Capital sentencing requires a careful balance of aggravating and mitigating factors, and the death penalty may be imposed only in the rarest of rare cases where life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed. Applying that settled test, the Court found that although the murder was brutal, the threshold for death sentence was not met because reform and rehabilitation remained possible. The confirmed death sentence was set aside and replaced with life imprisonment, understood as imprisonment for the convict's natural life, subject only to remission permitted by law. en-us Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 May 2026 13:11:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286834 Capital sentencing requires a careful balance of aggravating and mitigating factors, and the death penalty may be imposed only in the rarest of rare cases where life imprisonment is unquestionably foreclosed. Applying that settled test, the Court found that although the murder was brutal, the threshold for death sentence was not met because reform and rehabilitation remained possible. The confirmed death sentence was set aside and replaced with life imprisonment, understood as imprisonment for the convict's natural life, subject only to remission permitted by law. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=286834