Karnataka High Court. The High Court
confirmed the conviction and the death sentence awarded to the appellant
and by judgment and order dated 19 September ... death sentence. Jagmohan relates to the
period when the requirement for the court to state reasons for not giving
death sentence but giving the alternate
Chain of circumstances complete...................................................40
Death sentence by the Trial Court..................................................41
High Court confirmed the death sentence awarded to the
appellant................................................................................ 44
Rival Submissions ... fact: whether requiring interference?.....67
Whether death sentence be maintained or substituted by any
other sentence........................................................................ 80
Death sentence: Evolution of principles and norms
sentenced him with death penalty which was
confirmed. We are in these appeals primarily concerned with the question
whether the death sentence awarded to Shankar ... taken note of before
awarding sentence and what are the principles to be followed, while
awarding death sentence. The Court then held as follows
under-trial prisoners and they were not in
death cell. The learned Sessions Judge awarded death
sentence to these accused persons only on 5.12.1995 which ... entitled for commutation of death sentence.
While it is true that prolonged trial or execution of the
death sentence beyond all reasonable period
awarded. We think we should
follow the said precedents instead and, thus, in place of awarding
the death penalty, impose the sentence of rigorous imprisonment ... awarded life sentence which must be meant as sentence
for life. However, Justice Markandey Katju differed on the sentence to be
awarded and expressed
once and therefore his case stands on
a different footing. The death sentence awarded ... that acquittal of these accused should be set aside and
death sentence should be awarded to all of them.
Since it is a case
death
sentence to each one of them. He urged that there are
several mitigating circumstances which militate against the
death sentence awarded to these accused ... accused persons
belonging to one family have ben sentenced to death; (vi)
the sentence of death awarded to six accused persons would
be a serious
confirming
the death sentence in this case. We accordingly allow the appeal
on the question of sentence and commute the death sentence imposed
upon ... death, and the court sentences him to any punishment other than
death, the court shall in its judgment state the reason why sentence
of death
committed the
murder and deserved death sentence. Further, the trial court had also
opined that the imposition of death sentence under Section ... under
death sentence, more than 600 prisoners on death row. Five Judges
invalidated the death penalty, four dissented and the Court held that death
penalty
before awarding sentence,
especially capital punishment. Psychological trauma which a convict
undergoes on hearing that he would be awarded capital sentence, that is,
death ... that the maximum
sentence of death may be the appropriate sentence or the minimum
sentence of life imprisonment may be awarded, as the case
