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The Supreme Court remitted the death penalty of a man accused of raping and murdering a juvenile to life in prison, considering the possibility and likelihood of the defendant’s reformation and rehabilitation. The obvious and indisputable fact that the appellant had no criminal histories and comes from a poor socioeconomic background, as well as his pristine conduct inside the jail, cannot go ignored,” the Supreme Court concluded. Ins conclusion, Supreme Court said that the current case cannot be classified as one of the rarest of…