Rajiv Gandhi Assassins Mercy Plea

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  Consider Mercy Plea Of Rajiv Gandhi's Killer, Top Court Tells Governor

  The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Tamil Nadu Governor to consider the mercy petition of AG Perarivalan, a convict in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

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  Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Convict's Mother Seeks "Mercy Killing" Of Son

  With President Ram Nath Kovind reportedly rejecting Tamil Nadu government's plea to release seven Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts, the mother of one of them has demanded "mercy killing" of her son.

• Supreme Court commutes death sentence for Rajiv Gandhi's killers to life

  The Supreme Court today commuted the death sentence of three men convicted of killing former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to life in prison and left it to the Tamil Nadu government to decide whether to release them by granting them remission.

• Rajiv Gandhi assassination case: Supreme Court verdict on convicts' plea today

  The fate of three death row convicts in former PM Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case will be sealed today when the Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict on their plea for commutation of their sentence to life imprisonment on ground of delay in deciding their mercy plea.

• Rajiv Gandhi's assassins don't deserve mercy, says government in court

  The death sentences of three men convicted for the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi should not be commuted to life in prison, the government argued in the Supreme Court today.

• Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Supreme Court to take up convicts' plea for commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment

  The Supreme Court today will take up the petitions of the three assassins of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to commute their death sentence to life imprisonment due to the inordinate delay in the President deciding their mercy petition.

• Rajiv Gandhi assassination: convicts seek commutation of death sentence in plea to Supreme Court

  The three men convicted of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi moved the Supreme Court today seeking commutation of their death sentence.

• Supreme Court adjourns hearing on mercy petition plea in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case till tomorrow

  The Supreme Court has adjourned the hearing on the mercy petition pleas of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case till Thursday.

• Blog: 'Atmospheric' Pressure!

  It's not often that you fight medication induced drowsiness to hammer out a blog. When the Supreme Court transferred the Rajiv convicts mercy plea out of the Madras High Court, on a petition filed by a Tamil Nadu Congressman citing a "surcharged" and "vitiated" atmosphere in the state, I told myself "this is a hat trick!"

• Rajiv Gandhi assassins' pleas moved from Chennai to Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has ruled that it will hear the petitions of three men who are challenging the death sentence given to them for their role in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.

• Rajiv assassins' plea should not be moved out of Tamil Nadu: Govt

  The Tamil Nadu government today opposed in the Supreme Court a plea to shift out of the Madras High Court the appeals of three Rajiv Gandhi assassins, challenging their death penalty on account of an 11-year delay in deciding their mercy petition by the President.

• Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Convicts to challenge President's rejection of mercy pleas

  Three convicts on death row for plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, will file a petition in the Madras High Court today against the President's rejection of their mercy pleas.

• President rejects mercy plea of Rajiv Gandhi's murderers

  President Pratibha PatIl has rejected the mercy pleas of three men convicted for the 1991 assassination of the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, paving the way for their execution, an official told AFP on Thursday. "The rejection (of the clemency petitions) happened last week after the president returned from a foreign tour," presidential spokes...