source:- tribuneindia.com Death penalty has been held to be a valid form of punishment in India by the Supreme Court. But can convicts inordinately delay their execution by using procedural loopholes in the law? The question is being asked in view of delay in execution of the four convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape
Source:- ndtv.com Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta, Mukesh Singh and Akshay Singh – convicted for the shocking gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student dubbed Nirbhaya by the media in Delhi in 2012 – were to be executed on February 1. New Delhi: The convicts in the Nirbhaya case will get one week to finish
Source:- outlookindia.com The Centre on Februrary 1 moved the Delhi High Court for immediate execution of the death convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. It argued that individual hangings were possible. Presently, all four convicts have been delaying their executions by taking advantage of the death law. The court has scheduled the hearing
Source – dnaindia.com The Supreme Court will pronounce judgment in the review petitions filed by the three convicts in the brutal December 2012 Delhi gangrape and murder case today. The apex court had on May 4 reserved its order on the review petitions filed by the convicts– Pawan Gupta(31), Vinay Sharma (25), and Mukesh (31). A