Shraddananda v. State of Karnataka11 and in V.Sriharan (supra), has emphasised that “while the maximum extent of punishment of either death or life imprisonment is provided for under the relevant provisions, it will be for the courts to decide if in its conclusion, the imposition of death may not be warranted, what should be the number of years of imprisonment that would be judiciously and judicially more appropriate to keep the person under incarceration, by taking into account, apart from the crime itself, from the angle of the commission of such crime or crimes, 8 (2016) 7 SCC 1 : (2016) 2 SCC (Cri) 695 9 (2023) 9 SCC 817 10 2024 SCC OnLine SC 315 11 (2008) 13 SCC 76717 the interest of the society at large or all other relevant factors which cannot be put in any straitjacket formulae”. Upon conducting a detailed survey of 27 cases, it was ultimately stated in Paragraph 59 as follows: “59.A journey through the cases set out hereinabove shows that the fundamental underpinning is the