New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- The death penalty can be imposed only in cases where the possibility of a convict's reformation is completely ruled out, the Supreme Court has held, underlining that the possibility of reform cannot be presumed absent merely because a crime is exceptionally brutal or grotesque. The prosecution must establish that life term is unquestionably inadequate as an alternative to capital punishment, and that the death sentence must be reserved for cases where the alternative of imprisonment for life is demonstrably foreclosed, it said. P11...