Death Penalty Should Remain On The Statute Book, Says Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

19 Feb 2019 6:35 PM IST

  • Death Penalty Should Remain On The Statute Book, Says Gujarat HC [Read Judgment]

    “If a particular offender is a menace to the society there should absolutely be no objection to inflicting the death penalty on him.”

    "Although there is a good deal of opposition to death penalty, yet it should remain on the statute book", said a division bench of Gujarat High Court while commuting death sentence awarded to two men accused of kidnapping and murdering a boy aged about five years.Justice JB Pardiwala, in the judgment, discusses various precedents on the subject and also the law commission reports on the...

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