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You Are the Judge Who Must Decide If His Suffering Excuses Hers

The case sharpens an unresolved ethical question inside India's capital-sentencing jurisprudence - whether courts weighing "rarest of rare" cases can and should, treat structural social violence inflicted on a convict as a factor that diminishes his culpability for violence he then inflicts on someone else, especially a victim as defenseless as a toddler.