Detail Fatally Flawed; The Death Penalty in India   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8753 (Oct. 2011), page 33. Topik: Capital Punishment; Social Conditions & Trends; Politics; Litigation Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.68 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Arputham Ammal, a pensioner with curly silver hair and a wheezing cough, is an abolitionist. Perched in a gloomy warehouse in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu, as young men bustle over an exhibition against the death penalty, she explains why. "It is not needed. The ultimate victims of the death sentence are the backward, the minorities and the weak." She has another reason for her opposition: in a few weeks a hangman is due to slip a noose around her son's neck. Known as Perarivalan, he was convicted with 25 others of killing Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. Judges ruled that he supplied a battery for the suicide bomber who blew up the former prime minister. Yet for over a decade he has languished in jail awaiting a response to his plea for mercy. In August President Pratibha Patil rejected the plea, and those of two co-conspirators. India has imposed a near-moratorium on capital punishment since the Supreme Court ordered in 1983 that it be used only for the "rarest of rare" cases. Only one convict has been hanged since 1995. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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