Mercy Petitions

The Supreme Court has allowed parole to a death row convict, allowing him to perform the last rites of his deceased mother under police convoy.

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking guidelines for disposal of clemency/mercy petitions and exhaustion of legal remedies by death-row- convicts and execution of sentence, in a time bound manner, for cases in which death penalty have been awarded.

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