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Delay in execution agonising for death row convicts: SC
The Morning Standard
|September 08, 2024
EXPRESSING serious concern over the agonising effect that indefinite delays in the execution of a death sentence could have on a death-row convict, the Supreme Court observed that such delays are often likened to a sword hanging over one's head.
The top court made the observations after hearing a 2019 criminal appeal filed by the Maharashtra government challenging the Bombay High Court's order to commute the death sentence awarded to two Purushottam Borate and Pradeep Yashwant Kokade - to 35 years of imprisonment.
Both were convicted for the rape and murder of a Pune BPO employee in 2007.
Moved by the "indefinite and unexplainable" delay, the SC said that it would have to pass some guidelines to put in place a system so that there is no unnecessary delay in the execution of death penalty convicts.
This story is from the September 08, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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