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Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. File photo
The Hindu Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. File photo

A ray of hope for Afzal, other death-row prisoners

The one mercy petition presently pending with President Pranab Mukherjee also carries the taint of flawed death sentence by the Supreme Court. »      5 comments

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Opinion: Take these men off 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 »      19 comments

Related: These hard-core LTTE members see life through spiritual prism

Neither death nor life for Govindasamy

One hell of a roller-coaster ride for a multiple murderer in Tamil Nadu »      11 comments

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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. »      1 comment

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. »      9 comments

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NEW DELHI, February 8, 2012

Final hearing of death-row convict's petition on Thursday

Mercy petition turned down by President after a delay of 12 years »
PILIBHIT, October 22, 2011

25 years on, the sword still hangs over him

The Supreme Court put Gurmeet Singh, who killed 13 family members, on death row in 2005, saying he deserved no leniency »
DMK chief M. Karunanidhi. File photo
Chennai, September 11, 2011

Cabinet resolution sought to commute death sentence of Rajiv murder convicts

Karunanidhi urges State to give a new lease of life for the convicts »
George Orwell, who served for a while in the British Imperial Police, described the execution of an unidentified prisoner in a 1931 essay.
August 31, 2011

A Hanging

The barbarity and “unspeakable wrongness” of capital punishment — of “cutting a life short when it is in full tide” — has rarely been brought out as powerfully and as movingly as in George Orwel... »
August 27, 2011

Don't hang them

Preparations have begun at the Vellore Central Prison for hanging Murugan, Santhan, and Perarivalan — convicted for their involvement in the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Jail officials have... »
LAKHIMPUR KHERI (UTTAR PRADESH), October 25, 2011

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 »
DURGAWATI (BIHAR), October 19, 2011

Shobhit Chamar, a bitter recall to life

After 12 years on death row, this Bihar dacoit had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment »
RAJIV ASSASSINS: (L to R) Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan. File photo
September 3, 2011

A thousand deaths

Procrastination on mercy petitions is inhumane to death-convicts. »
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. File photo
August 29, 2011

Capital punishment in Rajiv Gandhi case: Jayalalithaa's statement (full text)

Translation of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s Statement in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on the issue of commuting the death sentence imposed on three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case »
August 18, 2011

No to death penalty

Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights puts it simply: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” The death penalty is the ul... »
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