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India Hangs 1993 Mumbai Bomb Plotter Yakub Memon
Yakub Memon, convicted for the 1993 terrorist attacks in India’s western metropolis Mumbai that killed more than 250 people, was hanged early Thursday morning.
Memon was executed on his 53rd birthday at a prison near Nagpur, about 14 hours from Mumbai, following the rejection of a last-ditch mercy plea from his lawyers for a 14-day stay on his execution so he could prepare for death and say goodbye to his family.
The plea, which was heard by a bench of three Supreme Court judges at around 3 a.m., was rejected on the grounds that suspending his death warrant even temporarily would be a “travesty of justice.”
Memon had two petitions for clemency rejected earlier on Wednesday by the governor of the state of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is the capital) and the President of India respectively, Reuters reported. The judges ruled that he was not entitled to the two-week buffer between the rejection of a mercy plea and an execution, mandated by Indian law, because he had received ample opportunities to challenge the case.
Yakub Memon, convicted for the 1993 terrorist attacks in India’s western metropolis Mumbai that killed more than 250 people, was hanged early Thursday morning.
Memon was executed on his 53rd birthday at a prison near Nagpur, about 14 hours from Mumbai, following the rejection of a last-ditch mercy plea from his lawyers for a 14-day stay on his execution so he could prepare for death and say goodbye to his family.
The plea, which was heard by a bench of three Supreme Court judges at around 3 a.m., was rejected on the grounds that suspending his death warrant even temporarily would be a “travesty of justice.”
Memon had two petitions for clemency rejected earlier on Wednesday by the governor of the state of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is the capital) and the President of India respectively, Reuters reported. The judges ruled that he was not entitled to the two-week buffer between the rejection of a mercy plea and an execution, mandated by Indian law, because he had received ample opportunities to challenge the case.