Case Analysis on Section 433A: Remission or commutation of death penalty.
When an accused is held guilty, he has to serve the punishment drawn to him. There had been immense debate on the constitutionality of the death penalty and it was held in the landmark judgement of Bacchan Singh v. the State of Punjab that it should be given in rarest of rare cases, what is the rarest of the rare case is still not categorised because the Mens rea cannot be calculated.To deal with this type of issue and to do justice in a reformative way concepts of commutation, suspension and remission have