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The Death Penalty Reforms: All about it.

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 ~Preet. Recently, a Supreme Court (SC) Bench agreed to thoroughly scrutinise processes in death penalty cases in order to guarantee that judges who must choose between life imprisonment and the death penalty have complete sentencing information. Previously, the Supreme Court expressed concerns about the procedure of assessing mitigating facts in death penalty cases. The court is reforming the procedures for bringing information required in a death penalty case before the courts. In doing so, the Supreme Court expresses its dissatisfaction with the method in which death sentence sentencing is carried out. While the death sentence has been declared legitimate, the way in which it has been carried out has sparked complaints of injustice and arbitrariness. Capital punishment, commonly known as the death penalty, is the execution of an offender condemned to death after being found guilty of a criminal offence by a court of law. It is the most severe sentence that may be imposed on an offen

Amending the IPC and CrPC: The beginning.

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 ~Preet The government recently began the process of amending criminal legislation such as the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Indian Evidence Act. In this quest, the Ministry of Home Affairs has solicited input from a variety of stakeholders, including Governors, Chief Ministers, the Chief Justice of India, Chief Justices of several High Courts, and others. Previously, the 111th, 128th, and 146th Parliamentary Standing Committee reports urged a complete overhaul of the country's criminal justice system. During British administration in India, criminal laws were codified, and they remain largely unchanged even in the twenty-first century. Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay is credited as being the primary architect of India's criminal law codifications. The Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, among other laws, govern criminal law in India. Criminal law is seen as the most visible manifestation