Inordinate delay in death penalty case to result in sentence commutation: Supreme Court
New Delhi, 10/12: The Supreme Court has said any inordinate and unreasonable delay in execution of death row convicts after rejection of mercy petitions will violate fundamental rights under Article 21 of the Constitution and the court will be justified in commuting the penalty into life imprisonment. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka, Ahsanuddin…
