Law Commission recommends ban on death penalty except for terrorism

August 31, 2015 15:30

Just in: The Law commission recommends abolishment of death penalty except in cases of terrorism and war against India. Death penalty does not serve penological goal of deterrence any more than life imprisonment, Law Commission's says. The notion - an eye for an eye tooth for a tooth has no place in our Constitutionally mediated criminal justice system. In 1962, the Law Commission in its 35th report had recommended retention of death penalty.

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