Stories from Death Row
A mother’s wait, a son’s seeming sangfroid
Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict still talks of his Eelam dream, and claims he was falsely implicated
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Neither death nor life for Govindasamy
One hell of a roller-coaster ride for a multiple murderer in Tamil Nadu
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Blood spilt for control of trust that runs a temple
Struggle caused the death of five persons and resulted in death sentence for six. Yet the case winds its way through courts
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In a time of terror, a wedding-day massacre
On a November evening in 1991, an hour before 21-year-old bridegroom Angrej Singh was due to set out on his baraat, his celebrating household was attacked by four gunmen. Eighteen people dead.
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Mohammad Shafiq, the man who executed himself
In the still dark hours of that Tuesday morning, Shafiq set himself on fire in his cell in the Indore jail. He succumbed to his burns a few days later.
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