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In November 2012, India executed a militant convicted for a 2008 attack by militant gunmen on Mumbai’s landmark Taj Hotel and other targets that killed 166 people, ending what many had seen as an undeclared moratorium on capital punishment.

About 300 prominent citizens, including at least eight retired judges of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court, had urged India’s president to commute Memon’s sentence to life in prison, reflecting what appears to be growing uneasiness in India with the death penalty.

A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk and Mr. Justice Dost Muhammad Khan announced the verdict. The Supreme Court has become a constitutional convention, in which just five votes often turns the Constitution inside out. The justification for lifetime appointment...

India on Thursday executed convicted bomb plotter Yakub Memon for his role in a series of coordinated attacks that killed hundreds of people in Mumbai in 1993.

[Irony of Life: 1993 blasts convict Yakub Memon hanged on his birthday].

A few days before the execution of Yakub Memon on July 30, the NLU had filed a petition before the apex court challenging the TADA court’s death warrant against him.

In another, the 70-year-old governor said intelligence kepeing a tab on Memon’s mouners is preventing terror.

India has executed Yakub Memon, the man convicted of financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings, the Maharashtra state government has confirmed. Almost two hours later, they decided that Memon had been given “ample opportunity” to challenge his death sentence, and that...

It seems the main opposition Congress is divided over the death sentence to the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon.

Yakub Memon was hanged a little before 7 am this morning in a Nagpur prison, less than two hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his final appeal against his hanging in an unprecedented hearing that was held within the court premises in the middle of the night. Hours before the...

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.

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.

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.