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India rarely executes prisoners on death row. “Under these circumstances, his sentence should have been commuted”, he said.

It was not just the rejection of his mercy plea by President Pranab Mukherjee late Wednesday night that sealed Yakub’s fate, the final seal on his fate came at 4.50 am in Court Room 4 of the apex court which dismissed the fresh petition filed on his behalf.

The court has “maintained” the death sentence for genocide and torture against 66-year-old Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, the first Hindu to head the top court in the country said, upholding a 2013 verdict by the worldwide Crimes Tribunal.

Salman further tweeted, “Kidhar chupa hai tiger?” The actor feels that it should be Tiger who should be hanged, and not his younger brother who is being made to pay the price of it.

In his petition, Memon said that a lower court’s death warrant is illegal as all the legal remedies available to him under the law have not been exhausted and that he has also approached the Maharastra Governor with a plea for mercy.

Amnesty worldwide voiced deep concerns over what it called the “unprecedented execution spike” in Iran. “If Iran’s authorities maintain this horrifying execution rate we are likely to see more than 1,000 state-sanctioned deaths by the year’s end”.

Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon may not live to receive his second masters degree, in Political Science, which he earned while pursuing studies in the Central Prison here, as he is to be hanged on his birthday, July 30.

Lea Michele is paying tribute to Cory Monteith on the second anniversary of his death.

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Peachtree Christian Hospice is under an hour from Bobbi Kristina’s Atlanta-area condo, where she was found facedown and unresponsive in her bathtub on January 31. She has never regained consciousness. Her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, with whom she shared her home, has begged to...