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| Supreme Court reprieve for two deat |
| Supreme Court reprieve for two death row convicts a day before hanging
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| INDIA
, 21-August-2013
5:3:6 AM |
| The Supreme Court has stayed the execution of two death row convicts who were scheduled to hang tomorrow. The duo had moved the top court seeking commutation of their sentence citing a six-year-delay in the decision on their mercy petitions.
The petitioners, Shivu and Jadeswamy, were sentenced to death in July 2005 for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl in in Chamarajnagar district in Karnataka.
The verdict was upheld by the Karnataka High Court and later confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2007.
Their petition for mercy was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee on August 13.
On the 8th of this month, the court had stayed the execution of a man who was sentenced to death for beheading his five daughters following an argument with his two wives.
The top court has now tagged Shivu and Jadeswamy's petition along with those filed by other death row convicts - including assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and associates of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan - which will be heard by a constitution bench that will determine questions relating to the delay in disposal of their mercy petitions
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