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INDIA: PRESIDENT CONVERTS 4 TRIBALS’ DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE TERMS

January 15, 2017: President Pranab Mukherjee has disposed of all mercy petitions of death penalties pending before him till date. The latest was the case of Bara massacre accused of Gaya district, where 32 Bhumihar Brahmins were killed by the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), a banned outfit. In 2001, Krishna Mochi along with three others, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Sing, alias Dharu Sing, were awarded capital punishments by a sessions court in connection with the massacre.
They were tried under the provisions of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act.
In 2002, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty by a majority of 2:1 in a three-judge Bench. Justice M B Shah differed from the view of the majority. He acquitted Sing and commuted the death sentences of the three others to life.
All the four convicts have been lodged at Bhagalpur Central Jail. Their mercy petitions were dispatched from the jail on March 2, 2003. Since then, it was pending with the Union Home Ministry. Only in the month of August last year, the Home Ministry sent the mercy petition to President Mukherjee for his consideration. 
The President sought legal opinion on the matter because of a recent landmark judgment of the Apex Court which overturned an earlier judgment and drew a distinction between murders related to terrorism and other kinds of murders.
After considering the merit of the case carefully, the President endorsed the view of the dissenting judge except for the acquittal of the accused.
In the month of January this year, the President reduced the death sentences of those convicts to life imprisonment. This was the last mercy petition pending before him. During his tenure, President Mukherjee has accepted four mercy petitions and rejected 28.  (Sources: millenniumpost.in, 15/01/2017)

SAUDI ARABIA CARRIES OUT FIRST EXECUTION OF 2017
NIGERIA: ARMED ROBBER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
USA: PRESIDENT OBAMA COMMUTES TWO DEATH SENTENCES
BANGLADESH: 26 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NARAYANGANJ KILLINGS
MALAYSIA: GUINEAN COLLEGE STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
WASHINGTON (USA): PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE STATE
IRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER EXECUTED IN KERMAN PRISON
BAHRAIN: THREE SHI'ITES CONVICTED OF KILLING POLICEMEN EXECUTED
IRAN: AT LEAST 5 PRISONERS EXECUTED AT RAJAI SHAHR PRISON
IRAN: 14 PRISONERS EXECUTED AT KARAJ CENTRAL PRISON
IRAN: ‘ENSAMBLE CONTRE LA PEINE DE MORT’ ALERTS FIFA THAT IN IRAN PEOPLE ARE EXECUTED IN FOOTBALL STADIUMS
FLORIDA (USA): FIVE COUNTIES DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPOSE DEATH PENALTY AGAINST SERIOUSLY MENTALLY IMPAIRED DEFENDANTS
MALAYSIA: BRUNEIAN MAN AND MALAYSIAN ACCOMPLICE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
TEXAS (USA): CHRISTOPHER WILKINS EXECUTED
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE TO COUPLE FOR MURDERING DALIT WOMAN
PAKISTAN: MAN HANGED OVER MURDERING TWO PEOPLE
OHIO OBTAINS HUNDREDS OF VIALS OF LETHAL DRUGS
USA: DYLANN ROOF SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDERS OF NINE BLACK CHURCH MEMBERS
BAHRAIN: DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD IN KILLING OF UAE OFFICER
SRI LANKA: TEN PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY BADULLA AND MATARA HIGH COURTS
IRAN: TWO HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR 'WAGING WAR AGAINST GOD’
PAKISTAN: MILITARY COURTS ABOLISHED
NIGERIA: LAGOS ASSEMBLY OKAYS DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPPERS
FLORIDA CHANGES LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS
IRAN: FOUR PRISONERS EXECUTED ON ARMED ROBBERY, DRUG RELATED CHARGES
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TUNISIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER AND RAPE OF INFANT
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