Guruprasad C V, Saraswathi Law College ABSTRACT: Current criminal jurisprudence exists in a state of experiencing tension between the social instinct for punitive retribution and the constitutional thought of human dignified life. This research paper examines the conceptual, philosophical, and legal dilemmas and play between the "retributive mind” that is the demand that moral wrongdoing incur a proportional debt of suffering and "soulful law" which means the integration of constitutional...