Will 'rarest of rare' apply to Delhi gang-rape convicts?

September 13, 2013 10:59

A 2008 Supreme Court ruling reiterated precedents set in 1980 and in a number of other decisions on the death penalty.

It said the rarest cases were those in which the "collective conscience of the community is so shocked that it will expect the holders of the judicial power to inflict death penalty."

These, the court said, were cases in which a murder is committed in "an extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting or dastardly manner so as to arouse intense and extreme indignation of the community." Read

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