Reduction of a sentence of death to that of imprisonment

Case titled “NAVEED alias NEEDU and others versus The STATE and others” (2014 SCMR 1464). The relevant dictum at page No.1468 reads as under:-

“failure of the prosecution to prove the motive set up by it may have a bearing upon the question of sentence and in an appropriate case such failure may result in reduction of a sentence of death to that of imprisonment for life for safe administration of justice.

Used in Judgment of
Lahore High Court
Criminal Appeal
18-J-16
2017 LHC 3623