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PART H -- DEATH SENTENCES
1. Reasons for awarding lesser sentence should be recorded when the offence is punishable with death.-- When an offence is punishable with death, but the Court inflicts a lesser penalty permitted by law the Court must state in the judgment its reasons for doing so.
2. Instructions to be observed by courts passing death sentences.-- When a convict is sentenced to death by a Court of Session, it must-
(i) direct by its sentence that he be hanged by the neck till he is dead;
(ii) submit its proceedings to the High Court for confirmation of the sentence; and
(iii) inform the convict of the period within which he must appeal if he wishes to do so.
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