GS-4RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE VS SOCIAL MITIGATION
The Court Spared His Life By Weighing the Cruelty Society Had Already Shown Him
The judgment applies the Supreme Court's 1980 Bachan Singh "rarest of rare" doctrine to an unusually stark fact pattern - a heinous crime against a toddler weighed against a convict's lifelong social ostracisation for an inter-caste marriage - reopening the question of how much weight structural social violence should carry in capital sentencing.
UPSC Relevance8/10
Time to Read3 min read
Total Views29,578
Read Analysis