Inhuman and unconscionable
9 years, 7 months ago

Inhuman and unconscionable

The Hindu  

Judicial finality need not necessarily mean that India should hang Yakub Memon. Even in this situation, as his life >hangs on the slender thread of a fresh mercy plea to the President, is the irreversible and inhuman sentence of death the only recourse for a democratic government? It was only in apparent cognisance of this that the Supreme Court ruled early last year that a formal communication to the convict and his family, intimation to the local legal aid centre and a clear gap of 14 days between the communication and the execution were necessary. Even in the Mumbai blasts case, the 10 men sentenced to death by the trial court for planting the explosives were given only life terms by the Supreme Court on appeal, while Yakub Memon alone was awarded the death penalty. The debate on the need and desirability of retaining the death penalty has been overshadowed by much intellectual exertion on the nature of the crime involved, its gravity, its heinousness and the fatalities it caused.

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Black warrant reality check: Is India skipping the noose?
1 month, 1 week ago

Black warrant reality check: Is India skipping the noose?

India Today  

In 2024, for the second consecutive year, the Supreme Court of India didn't confirm any death sentence, revealed a report from Project 39A of the National Law University Delhi. The NLU report published in January, also revealed that the Supreme Court in 2024 commuted five death sentences to life imprisonment and acquitted one person out of six appellants. The report …

Death penalty an exception, not the rule: SC
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Death penalty an exception, not the rule: SC

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that not every case of multiple murders qualifies as a “rarest of rare” instance warranting the death penalty, particularly when there is potential for reform. The court underscored that while the crime was brutal and deeply disturbing, the absence of criminal antecedents, favourable prison reports indicating a scope for rehabilitation and legal precedents weighed against …

Capital Punishment An Exception; Even In Cases Of Multiple Murders, Avoid Death Sentence If There's Possibility Of Reform : Supreme Court
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Capital Punishment An Exception; Even In Cases Of Multiple Murders, Avoid Death Sentence If There's Possibility Of Reform : Supreme Court

Live Law  

Recently, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man for murdering his wife and four minor daughters but commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment without remission, citing a lack of criminal antecedents, prison reports indicating reform potential, and precedents against the death penalty in multiple-murder cases.The Court added that even in cases involving multiple murders, no. Recently, the …

'Sensitive Matter' : Union Seeks More Time On Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition; Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing By 4 Weeks
3 months, 3 weeks ago

'Sensitive Matter' : Union Seeks More Time On Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition; Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing By 4 Weeks

Live Law  

Specifically on Rohatgi's arguments on national security, Counsel for Punjab responded: "An affidavit was filed by the Union, wherein a national threat was stated in the affidavit that there is national threat on release of this person." However, while confirming the conviction of a co-accused Jagtar Singh Hawara, the High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. However, on …

Supreme Court Requests President To Decide Death Row Convict Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition In 2 Weeks
4 months ago

Supreme Court Requests President To Decide Death Row Convict Balwant Singh's Mercy Petition In 2 Weeks

Live Law  

Specifically on Rohatgi's arguments on national security, Counsel for Punjab responded: "An affidavit was filed by the Union, wherein a national threat was stated in the affidavit that there is national threat on release of this person." However, while confirming the conviction of a co-accused Jagtar Singh Hawara, the High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. However, on …

Exercising mercy as a Constitutional duty: Pardon for death sentence: What is the law?
9 months ago

Exercising mercy as a Constitutional duty: Pardon for death sentence: What is the law?

Hindustan Times  

After a person is convicted of an offence, and the court holding it to be the rarest of the rare cases, passes a death sentence, justice does not rest. Justice is not merely in the passing of an adequate sentence but encompasses due process, which includes the convict’s right to appeal the sentence within the given legal framework – confirmation, …

Decide Mercy Petitions Against Death Sentence At The Earliest So That Convicts Won't Take Undue Advantage : Supreme Court
1 year, 11 months ago

Decide Mercy Petitions Against Death Sentence At The Earliest So That Convicts Won't Take Undue Advantage : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court directed all State Governments to ensure that mercy petitions in death penalty cases are decided and disposed of at the earliest. In the matter, the High Court commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment on the ground that there was an inordinate unexplained delay on the part of the State/Governor of the State in not deciding the …

Evolution of jurisprudence around capital punishment, its procedures
1 year, 11 months ago

Evolution of jurisprudence around capital punishment, its procedures

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court last month decided to test the validity of hanging by the neck as the method of executing death sentence in India, stating that the method can be declared unconstitutional if there is scientific material favouring a different method of execution as less painful and “more consistent with human dignity”. Over the years, there has been a constant …

Indian-origin minister about to scrap mandatory death sentence in THIS nation I DETAILS
1 year, 11 months ago

Indian-origin minister about to scrap mandatory death sentence in THIS nation I DETAILS

India TV News  

Malaysia's Parliament on Monday approved a bill that would scrap mandatory death penalties and limit capital punishment to serious crimes as part of wide-ranging reforms, bringing possible reprieves to more than 1,300 prisoners on death row. While the death sentence remains, courts will now be given the option of imposing jail sentences of up to 40 years, Deputy Law Minister …

Abolition is the way: The Hindu Editorial on the higher judiciary’s move on the death penalty
2 years ago

Abolition is the way: The Hindu Editorial on the higher judiciary’s move on the death penalty

The Hindu  

Forty years after holding that the mode of executing prisoners by hanging cannot be termed too cruel or barbaric, the Supreme Court of India has now ventured to find out if there is a more dignified and less painful method to carry out death sentences. The idea of finding an alternative mode of execution, one considered less painful and involves …

Uphold dignity in death penalty
2 years ago

Uphold dignity in death penalty

Hindustan Times  

There are layers upon layers in the judicial debate on capital punishment — the efficacy and ethics of administering the death penalty, the adequacy of procedural safeguards, the choice of the most humane way to execute a person, and even the moral argument — but at its heart rests the motivation to safeguard the dignity of the life that is …

'What Is The Use Of Death Sentence, If It Is To Be Executed After 20-25 Years?' : Supreme Court Asks On Plea Challenging Commutation
2 years, 3 months ago

'What Is The Use Of Death Sentence, If It Is To Be Executed After 20-25 Years?' : Supreme Court Asks On Plea Challenging Commutation

Live Law  

At the outset, Justice Shah put to the advocate for the state, "What is the purpose of awarding a death sentence? The advocate replied, "Your Lordships, the first mercy petition was not filed by these accused, that was filed by some residents of Canada, Australia, etc.please, Your Lordships, 9 children were murdered." In the impugned judgment of January 18, 2022, …

The death penalty and humanising criminal justice
2 years, 4 months ago

The death penalty and humanising criminal justice

The Hindu  

As a conservative agency of the state, the Supreme Court of India is ordinarily expected to tread the path laid out by the written text of law and the binding precedents. On policies and uniformity The focus here is on reframing ‘Framing Guidelines Regarding Potential Mitigating Circumstances to be Considered While Imposing Death Sentences’, a decision authored by the three …

DC Edit | SC move to set guidelines on death penalty welcome
2 years, 6 months ago

DC Edit | SC move to set guidelines on death penalty welcome

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of the Supreme Court to set up a Constitution Bench to lay down guidelines for the courts on providing a convict a real and meaningful hearing before deciding on a death penalty is a refreshing step that will further civilise the criminal justice delivery system in our country. The only protection a person can have against incarceration or …

The death penalty must always be under debate
2 years, 6 months ago

The death penalty must always be under debate

Live Mint  

Should a state have the legal power to take a person’s life? In many cases, the court noted, trial courts pronounce a sentence on the very day of conviction, thus allowing too little time for the accused to make a case for a lighter burden. The apex court has referred the matter to a five-judge Constitution bench, asking it to …

Explained | Pardon and remission, and who grants them
2 years, 10 months ago

Explained | Pardon and remission, and who grants them

The Hindu  

May 15, 2022 04:21 am | Updated 09:52 pm IST The story so far: The Supreme Court has reserved orders on the question whether a Governor can refer the State government’s advice for granting remission to life convicts to the President for a decision. Under Article 72, the President can grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment or suspend, …

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case : President Competent Authority To Decide Perarivalan's Pardon, Says Tamil Nadu Governor
4 years, 1 month ago

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case : President Competent Authority To Decide Perarivalan's Pardon, Says Tamil Nadu Governor

Live Law  

The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that the Tamil Nadu Governor has proposed that the President of India is the competent authority to deal the request of remission of sentence in case of AG Perarivalan, the convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case The Ministry of Home Affairs has submitted an affidavit stating that the Tamil Nadu Governor, …

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case : President Competent Authority To Decide Perarivalan's Pardon, Says Tamil Nadu Governor
4 years, 1 month ago

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case : President Competent Authority To Decide Perarivalan's Pardon, Says Tamil Nadu Governor

Live Law  

The Centre on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that the Tamil Nadu Governor has proposed that the President of India is the competent authority to deal the request of remission of sentence in case of AG Perarivalan, the convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case The Ministry of Home Affairs has submitted an affidavit stating that the Tamil Nadu Governor, …

SC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Guidelines For Time-Bound Disposal Of Clemency & Mercy Petitions
4 years, 8 months ago

SC Issues Notice In Plea Seeking Guidelines For Time-Bound Disposal Of Clemency & Mercy Petitions

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice in a plea seeking directions for issuance of guidelines via-à-vis disposal of clemency/mercy writ petitions and resultant execution of death sentence in a time bound manner.Notice was issued by a bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, R. Subhash Reddy & AS Bopanna in the petition filed by Advocate Dr. Subhash Vijayran, highlighting the …

December 2012 gang rape case: Court issues fresh death warrant after President rejects mercy petition of Mukesh Singh
5 years, 2 months ago

December 2012 gang rape case: Court issues fresh death warrant after President rejects mercy petition of Mukesh Singh

Hindustan Times  

A Delhi court on Friday issued a fresh death warrant against the four convicts in the December 16, 2010 gang-rape and murder case after it was informed that the mercy petition of one of the convicts — Mukesh Singh — has been rejected by President Ram Nath Kovind. The court was hearing a plea filed by Mukesh on Tuesday seeking …

Child Rapists Should Not Have Right To File Mercy Petitions : President Ram Nath Kovind
5 years, 3 months ago

Child Rapists Should Not Have Right To File Mercy Petitions : President Ram Nath Kovind

Live Law  

In the backdrop of simmering outrage in the society over the unabated increase in sexual crimes committed against women and children, President of India Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said that child rapists should not have the right to file mercy petitions.The President said, "Women safety is a serious issue. In the backdrop of simmering outrage in the society over …

2007 Pune Gangrape And Murder: Inordinate Delay In Execution Of Death Sentence Unconstitutional Says Bombay HC, Commutes Death To Life [Read Judgment]
5 years, 7 months ago

2007 Pune Gangrape And Murder: Inordinate Delay In Execution Of Death Sentence Unconstitutional Says Bombay HC, Commutes Death To Life [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

In a significant decision, the Bombay High Court commuted death sentence awarded to two convicts to life imprisonment for 35 years life imprisonment in the 2007 gangrape and murder case of a BPO employee in Pune. "We find that delay in the present matters could have been easily avoided and the mercy petitions and the final execution could have been …

Article 72- President of India Has The Powers to Impose Conditions While Granting Pardon: Madras HC [Read Judgment]
5 years, 7 months ago

Article 72- President of India Has The Powers to Impose Conditions While Granting Pardon: Madras HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

Dismissing the writ petitions filed by Petitioners, the Madras High Court held that the President's power to grant pardon under Article 72 of the Constitution included the power to impose conditions upon such pardon and the convicts were estopped from questioning the same.Background The Petitioners were three convicts who had been sentenced to death by the Sessions Court, subsequently. Dismissing …

Clemency question: The Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
6 years, 6 months ago

Clemency question: The Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

The Hindu  

After failing to get the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case released by exercising its statutory power to remit life sentences, the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu has taken recourse to a possible constitutional remedy. The earlier attempt in 2014 to remit the sentences under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure was stayed by the Supreme …

Trial Court Can’t Order Accused To Undergo Life Term Beyond 14 Yrs Without Chance For Remission, Reiterates Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
6 years, 11 months ago

Trial Court Can’t Order Accused To Undergo Life Term Beyond 14 Yrs Without Chance For Remission, Reiterates Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

HC modifies life term of murder convict sentenced to 25 yrs in jail without remission.Modifying to life term the punishment awarded to a murder convict sentenced by the trial court to undergo 25 years in custody without being considered for remission, the Delhi High Court has said the trial court cannot order an accused to undergo life imprisonment for a …

Can HC Review President’s Decision Rejecting Mercy Petition Of Death Convict: SC Issues Notice On Centre’s Plea In Sonu Sardar Case
7 years, 3 months ago

Can HC Review President’s Decision Rejecting Mercy Petition Of Death Convict: SC Issues Notice On Centre’s Plea In Sonu Sardar Case

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has issued notice on the Centre’s special leave petition against the Delhi High Court’s judgment commuting death sentence of Sonu Sardar.The Delhi High Court had quashed the President’s order rejecting mercy petition, and had commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.Sonu Sardar was convicted and sentenced to death for killing five members of a scrap. The Supreme …

Taking Note Of Law Commission’s Recommendation, SC Commutes Death Sentence in Double Murder Case [Read Judgment]
7 years, 11 months ago

Taking Note Of Law Commission’s Recommendation, SC Commutes Death Sentence in Double Murder Case [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

"Today when capital punishment has become a distinctive feature of death penalty apparatus in India, which somehow breaches the reformative theory of punishment under criminal law, we are not inclined to award the same in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the present case", said the Bench "Today when capital punishment has become a distinctive feature of death penalty apparatus …

Why capital punishment must stay
7 years, 11 months ago

Why capital punishment must stay

Deccan Chronicle  

In 1980, the Supreme Court in the Bachan Singh vs State of Punjab abolished the mandatory death penalty in cases of murder and propounded the “rarest of rare” doctrine, allowing courts to impose death penalty in cases such as murder, terrorism, treason, espionage. According to the Supreme Court, “Death penalty should be imposed when collective conscience of the society is …

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: TN moves SC for review of verdict on remission to convicts
8 years, 7 months ago

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: TN moves SC for review of verdict on remission to convicts

Live Law  

Nearly eight months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Centre has primacy over states' right to grant remission as the case was conducted by a central agency like the CBI, the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu government moved the apex court again seeking a review of the verdict.It sought review of the apex court's verdict in December last year …

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: TN moves SC for review of verdict on remission to convicts
8 years, 7 months ago

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: TN moves SC for review of verdict on remission to convicts

Live Law  

Nearly eight months after the Supreme Court ruled that the Centre has primacy over states' right to grant remission as the case was conducted by a central agency like the CBI, the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu government moved the apex court again seeking a review of the verdict.It sought review of the apex court's verdict in December last year …

Ending politics of remission
9 years, 3 months ago

Ending politics of remission

The Hindu  

The >verdict of a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on legal questions relating to grant of remission to life convicts exposes the haste with which the Tamil Nadu government acted in February 2014 in >seeking to release the seven persons serving life terms for plotting to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. The court’s finding that the Central government has …

Keep death sentence only for terror-related offences: Law panel
9 years, 6 months ago

Keep death sentence only for terror-related offences: Law panel

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Law Commission, in a report released on Monday, recommended India abolish the death penalty, with the exception of terror-related offences, saying that sending a convict to the gallows has lost its relevance as a deterrent to curb heinous offences. While not recommending the abolition of death sentence in terror-related cases, the commission has however, said that "there …

Deterrence is a myth, says Law Commission
9 years, 6 months ago

Deterrence is a myth, says Law Commission

The Hindu  

The Law Commission of India has recommended the abolition of the death penalty for all crimes except terrorism-related offences and waging war. On Monday, his last day in office, Law Commission chairperson Justice A P Shah presented the Commission’s 262nd Report, titled ‘The Death Penalty’, to law minister Sadananda Gowda. BJP, Congress cautious The Law Commission’s report on the death …

MHA recommends rejection of mercy pleas of two Death Row convicts
9 years, 7 months ago

MHA recommends rejection of mercy pleas of two Death Row convicts

Live Law  

President Pranab Mukherjee has been reportedly recommended by the Ministry of Home Affairs to reject the petitions of two death row convicts.The death sentence for the convicts, Mohan Anna Chavan and Jitendra Gehlot, currently lodged in Maharashtra jails, was upheld by the Supreme Court and their mercy petitions were rejected by the Maharashtra Governor.Mohan Anna Chavan was awarded. President Pranab …

MHA recommends rejection of mercy pleas of two Death Row convicts
9 years, 7 months ago

MHA recommends rejection of mercy pleas of two Death Row convicts

Live Law  

President Pranab Mukherjee has been reportedly recommended by the Ministry of Home Affairs to reject the petitions of two death row convicts.The death sentence for the convicts, Mohan Anna Chavan and Jitendra Gehlot, currently lodged in Maharashtra jails, was upheld by the Supreme Court and their mercy petitions were rejected by the Maharashtra Governor.Mohan Anna Chavan was awarded. President Pranab …

India execution brings out mixed feelings on punishment - India TV News
9 years, 7 months ago

India execution brings out mixed feelings on punishment - India TV News

India TV News  

New Delhi : Few countries sentence more people to death than India. About 300 prominent citizens, including at least eight retired judges of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court, had urged India's president to commute Memon's sentence to life in prison, reflecting what appears to be growing uneasiness in India with the death penalty. The relatively low number …

What is at Stake is Our Commitment to National Self-Improvement
9 years, 7 months ago

What is at Stake is Our Commitment to National Self-Improvement

The Quint  

Institutions as Executioners There were other executioners who had foretold his death by hanging – the President of India who has rejected more mercy petitions than he has signed on presidential decrees; the executive, which sat silent even when its investigating agencies had informally sounded out Yakub after his “arrest” that they would not press for death penalty; the judiciary …

A Judge as Delusional Dictator Clinging on to Death By Hanging
9 years, 7 months ago

A Judge as Delusional Dictator Clinging on to Death By Hanging

The Quint  

The legal course of Mumbai blast-accused convict Yakub Memon’s appeals of clemency against the death penalty imposed on him, and subsequently ratified by the Supreme Court, has unequivocally revealed that while handing out capital punishment, the pronouncements of our judges echo that of the state – uncompromisingly and whimsically bent on inflicting death to a broken man. Of the two …

Repeated mercy pleas violate principle of finality: Centre tells SC
9 years, 8 months ago

Repeated mercy pleas violate principle of finality: Centre tells SC

Firstpost  

Repeated mercy pleas before the President and the Governor by convicts seeking remission or commutation of their sentences violate the principle of finality, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court. New Delhi: Repeated mercy pleas before the President and the Governor by convicts seeking remission or commutation of their sentences violate the principle of finality, the Centre on Wednesday …

The politics of mercy petitions
9 years, 8 months ago

The politics of mercy petitions

Deccan Chronicle  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Yakub Abdul Razak Memon’s curative review petition, setting off the countdown to July 30, the date of his hanging. On June 26, 2012, the office of President Patil, in a widely reported press release, claimed, “The President is not supposed to act on her own judgment but is mandated to act in accordance with …

Killers of former PM Rajiv Gandhi do not deserve any mercy: Centre tells Supreme Court
9 years, 8 months ago

Killers of former PM Rajiv Gandhi do not deserve any mercy: Centre tells Supreme Court

Firstpost  

The Centre on Tuesday asserted in the Supreme Court that the killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi did nor deserve any mercy. The bench was hearing the maintainability of the Centre’s petition opposing Tamil Nadu government’s decision to remit the life sentences and set free seven convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. It is the issue.” The bench said …

Mixed response on abolition of death penalty in India |IndiaTV News
9 years, 8 months ago

Mixed response on abolition of death penalty in India |IndiaTV News

India TV News  

New Delhi: A discussion on a law commission consultation paper on whether capital punishment should be retained or abolished on Saturday evoked a mixed response. While former President APJ Abdul Kalam, DMK leader Kanimozhi and former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, supported the abolition of death penalty, several others, including SC bar association's Dushyant Dave favoured retaining the capital punishment. …

Rethink the death penalty
10 years, 3 months ago

Rethink the death penalty

The Hindu  

As India continues to stand in favour of the death penalty, it is increasingly finding itself in the margins of world politics and international standards on this issue. Customary international law does not prohibit the death penalty currently, but global opinion is rapidly moving towards an abolition. Given this global trend, India gave the following reasons for its retentionist position: …

Death Penalty – Is it ever Justified?
10 years, 5 months ago

Death Penalty – Is it ever Justified?

Live Law  

‘Every saint has a past and every sinner a future, never write off the man wearing the criminal attire but remove the dangerous degeneracy in him, restore his retarded human potential by holistic healing of his fevered, fatigued or frustrated inside and by repairing the repressive, though hidden, injustice of the social order which is vicariously guilty of the criminal …

Death Penalty – Is it ever Justified?
10 years, 5 months ago

Death Penalty – Is it ever Justified?

Live Law  

‘Every saint has a past and every sinner a future, never write off the man wearing the criminal attire but remove the dangerous degeneracy in him, restore his retarded human potential by holistic healing of his fevered, fatigued or frustrated inside and by repairing the repressive, though hidden, injustice of the social order which is vicariously guilty of the criminal …

Mercy and the machinery of death
11 years ago

Mercy and the machinery of death

The Hindu  

IN Bamnia village in Purulia, West Bengal, the mother of Ajay Kumar Pal, India’s latest mercy-rejected death-row prisoner, lives in abject poverty with very little to eat or wear, surviving on food that villagers give her on some days for clearing dung from their cowsheds. The cumulative effect of these judgments is that the delay in deciding mercy petitions is, …

SC commutes death penalty of four murderers to life imprisonment on the basis of their young age and socio-economic background; says the convicts are not beyond reformation [Read Judgment]
11 years ago

SC commutes death penalty of four murderers to life imprisonment on the basis of their young age and socio-economic background; says the convicts are not beyond reformation [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court in a recent ruling, commuted the capital punishment of four convicts, who were accused of killing nine people, to life imprisonment on the basis of their young age and poverty-stricken socio-economic background.A Bench of the Apex Court headed by the Chief Justice of India, P Sathasivam, found that the behaviour of the convicts inside the jail was …

SC commutes death penalty of four murderers to life imprisonment on the basis of their young age and socio-economic background; says the convicts are not beyond reformation [Read Judgment]
11 years ago

SC commutes death penalty of four murderers to life imprisonment on the basis of their young age and socio-economic background; says the convicts are not beyond reformation [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court in a recent ruling, commuted the capital punishment of four convicts, who were accused of killing nine people, to life imprisonment on the basis of their young age and poverty-stricken socio-economic background.A Bench of the Apex Court headed by the Chief Justice of India, P Sathasivam, found that the behaviour of the convicts inside the jail was …

Letters to the Editor
11 years, 1 month ago

Letters to the Editor

The Hindu  

Death sentence New Delhi, 24/01/2014: Supreme Court in New Delhi on Friday, January 24, 2014. However, convicts who have scant regard for human life and are guilty of cold-blooded crimes and those guilty of waging war against the state truly deserve capital punishment. B. Suresh Kumar Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Kangaroo courts THE gang rape of a tribal girl in Birbhum …

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