The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment on Tuesday, ruled that an open court hearing in the review of a death sentence is a fundamental right. The apex court changed several other rules of hearing death verdict review pleas.
The Supreme Court was hearing a matter whether an inordinate delay in execution of death sentences amounts to, in effect, subjecting a death row convict to a double punishment of life imprisonment and death penalty.
It also addressed the question whether review of death penalty awarded in the rarest of rare cases should continue to be done in the privacy of the judges' chambers or transparently in open court.
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