Are India's courts too flexible on the death penalty?

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  • Published On: February 11, 2013
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As the fallout of Afzal Guru's execution is felt in the Kashmir valley, we ask whether the concept of 'rarest of rare' for the death penalty is arbitrarily applied by the courts and how do we define what is 'rarest of rare'?

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