of life, when it said in Bachan Singh (supra) that ‘extreme depravity’ (paragraph 201), ‘it is the duty of the State to adduce evidence that there is no probability that the accused can be reformed’ (paragraph 206), ‘liberal and expansive connotation’ (paragraph 209), ‘alternative option is unquestionably foreclosed’ (paragraph 209) ‘humane concern’ (paragraph 209), ‘real and abiding concern for dignity of human life’ (paragraph 209), in Machhi Singh (supra) that ‘gravest case of extreme culpability’ (paragraph 38), ‘only when life appears to be an altogether inadequate punishment’ (paragraph 28), ‘mitigating circumstances should be given full weightage’ (paragraph 38), in Santosh Bariyar (supra) that ‘probability that the accused can be reformed and rehabilitated’ (paragraph 57), ‘the rarest of rare case is a negative precept’ (paragraph 58), ‘death is an exceptionally narrow opening’ (paragraph 58), ‘extraordinary burden on the Court to impose death’ (paragraph 60), ‘maximum weightage to mitigating circumstances and yet no alternative except death’ (paragraph 39), ‘highest standards of judicial rigor and thoroughness’ (paragraph 61), and in Shankar Kisanrao Khade (supra) that ‘possibility of reformation, young age of the accused, not a menace to the society, no previous track record’ (paragraph 52) etc. These factors have not received due consideration by either the High Court or the Trial Court. 16