The apex court recently clarified that the psychological evaluation of condemned prisoners by expert doctors, and access to them by mitigating investigators, are essential before the hearing begins on their appeals against the death sentence
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant any further relief to a man, who was convicted for murdering a person posted as corporal at Air Force Station Bhisiana and shredded his body into pieces more than four years back, and whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court has stayed the death sentence of person convicted in a gruesome murder case. In the brutal massacre, a woman was not only strangled to death, but her limbs were amputated.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking guidelines for disposal of clemency/mercy petitions and exhaustion of legal remedies by death-row- convicts and execution of sentence, in a time bound manner, for cases in which death penalty have been awarded.