Death Sentence - Judgment Search Results

State Vs. Lachman Kevalram Ahuja

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: (1955)57BOMLR777

..... that no normal judicial mind would consider any other sentence except the sentence of death as an adequate punishment we are not interfering with the sentence passed by the learned judge below on any such consideration that if we had tried ..... no normal judicial mind would have awarded the lesser penalty namely the penalty of transportation for life in this case now there is no doubt that this was .....

Swamy Sharaddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra Vs. State of Karnataka

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR2007SC2531; 2008(2)ALD(Cri)505; 2008(3)ALT(Cri)89; 2007(6)KarLJ1; 2007(8)SCALE1; 2007AIRSCW4513; 2007(1)LawHerald(SC)1851; 2007(5)AIRKarR132; JT2007(7)SC397

..... other five crimes but this logic does not seem to hold good in case of death penalty on this logic a convict of murder may be punished with imprisonment for as long as you please but death penalty is something entirely different no one can undo an executed death sentence 31 that is not the end of the matter coupled with the deficiency of the .....

Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral. Vs. State of MaharashtrA.

Court: Supreme Court of India

..... wife does the appellant deserves the death sentence death penalties worldwide death penalty in india consequently the death sentence was justified putting the case under the rarest of rare case category death sentence was upheld award of death sentence was held proper the death sentence was upheld the death sentence was held justified this deserved a death sentence present case this court held in .....

Rajesh Kumar. Vs. State Through Govt. of Nct of Delhi.

Court: Supreme Court of India

..... sentencing by the judiciary is required to prevent cruel inhuman or degrading punishment and the arbitrary deprivation of life rdquo the death penalty roger hood and hoyle 4th edition oxford page 281 105 taking an overall view of the facts in these appeals and for the reasons discussed above we hold that death sentence cannot be inflicted on the appellant since the dictum of constitution bench .....

Mulla and anr. Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR2010SC942,2010(58)BLJR415,JT2010(2)SC35,2010(2)SCALE179

..... despite the nature of the crime the mitigating circumstances can allow us to substitute the death penalty with life sentence 61 here we like to note that the punishment of life sentence in this case must extend to their full life subject to any remission by the .....

K. Govindaswami Pillai Vs. Government of India and ors.

Court: Chennai

Reported in: AIR1986Mad204

..... the view that the accused has forfeited his right to seek imposition of the alternate sentence of imprisonment for life which has pre emptive acceptance under s 354 3 of the code in bachan singh v state of punjab the supremecourt held that the provision bf death penalty as an alternative punishment for murder in s 302 ipc is not unreasonable and it is in the public .....

State of Gujarat Vs. Surendrapal Shivabalakpal

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (2004)3GLR628

..... culpability ii before opting for the death penalty the circumstances of the offender also required to be taken in to consideration along with the circumstances of the crime iii life imprisonment is the rule and death sentence is an exception in other words death sentence must be imposed only when life imprisonment appears to be an altogether inadequate punishment having regard to the relevant .....

Mithu Vs. State of Punjab

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1983SC473; 1983CriLJ811; 1983(1)Crimes957(SC); 1983(1)SCALE331; (1983)2SCC277; [1983]2SCR690

..... nation which our constitution visualises bachan singh sustained the validity of section 302 because the sentence of imprisonment for life and not death was the normal punishment for murder and the sentence of death was an alternative penalty to be resorted to in the most exceptional of cases and the discretion to impose .....

Bachan Singh Vs. State of Punjab

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: (1982)3SCC24; [1983]1SCR145a

..... thing is certain 11 at the constitution does not in so many terms prohibit capital punishment in fact it recognises death sentence as one of the penalties which may be imposed by law article 21 provides inter alia that no one shall .....

Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra Vs. State of Karnataka

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR2008SC3040; 2008(56)BLJR2507; 2008CriLJ3911; JT2008(8)SC27; 2008(10)SCALE669; 2008AIRSCW5110; (2008)2SCC(Cri)322; 2008(3)Crimes215; 2008(4)LH(SC)2705; 2008(6)AIRKarR21; (2008)13SCC767

..... other five crimes but this logic does not seem to hold good in case of death penalty on this logic a convict of murder may be punished with imprisonment for as long as you please but death penalty is something entirely different no one can undo an executed death sentence 31 that is not the end of the matter coupled with the deficiency of the .....