SUPREME COURT:Facts to be consider by courts while awarding death sentence. That there can be no hard and fast rules which the court can follow while considering whether an accused should be awarded death sentence or not. The core of a criminal case is its facts and, the facts differ from case to case. Therefore, the various factors like the age of the criminal, his social status, his background, whether he is a confirmed criminal or not, whether he had any antecedents, whether there is any possibility of his reformation and rehabilitation or whether it is a case where the reformation is impossible and the accused is likely to revert to such crimes in future and become a threat to the society are factors which the criminal court will have to examine independently in each case.The time taken by the courts till the final verdict is pronounced cannot come to the aid of the accused in canvassing commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment.” Sushil Sharma v. The State of N.C.T. of Delhi (2014) 4 SCC 317 Follow us on twitter https://twitter/indianlawforum.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:30:00 +0000
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