17 October 2013 :

the Indian Supreme Court has stayed the execution of two death row convicts who were scheduled to hang tomorrow. The duo had moved the top court seeking commutation of their sentence citing a six-year-delay in the rejection of their mercy petition by the President. Their plea for mercy was turned down on the 13th of this month.
The petitioners, Shivu and Jadeswamy, were sentenced to death in July 2005 for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl in Chamarajnagar district in Karnataka.
The verdict was upheld by the Karnataka High Court and later confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2007. The batch of petitions will be now heard by a constitution bench that will determine questions relating to the delay in disposal of their mercy petitions.