Indian Supreme Court admits its error: Death penalty avoided

The Supreme Court of India, in a rare admission, has accepted that two earlier judgments upholding the death sentence were a mistake and violation of human rights of the accused. A bench comprising of Justices Aftab Alam and A.K. Ganguly said: “Instances of this court's judgment violating the human rights of the citizens may be extremely rare but it cannot be said that such a situation can never happen. On a review of the reasoning in the petition, we find that the finding in the judgment is vitiated by errors apparent on the face of the record.”

Indian Supreme Court admits its error: Death penalty avoided barandbench.com Wed, Dec 8, 2010