"The Centre has stayed the hanging. Now it must commute the sentence."
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Why Balwant Singh Rajoana shouldn't be hanged: The State and Central governments have powers to commute death sentences after their final judicial confirmation. Issues often alien and irrelevant to legal adjudication — morality, public good, social and policy considerations — are intrinsically germane to the exercise of the government's powers. These powers exist because in appropriate cases the strict requirements of law need to be tempered and departed from to reach a truly just outcome in the widest sense of the word. The government's powers to commute a death sentence thus operate as a national conscience.
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