Delay in deciding mercy petitions frustrates death penalty: SC | India News – Times of India

Delay in deciding mercy petitions frustrates death penalty: SC | India News – Times of India

The Supreme Court on Thursday said prisoners on death row were taking advantage of inordinate delays in deciding mercy petitions to seek commutation of their punishment to life sentence, thereby defeating the purpose of the death sentence.
This ruling came on a petition filed by Maharashtra government challenging the Bombay HC’s decision to commute to life sentence the capital punishment awarded to one Renuka and her sister Seema, who between 1990 and 1996 had kidnapped 13 children and killed nine of them in Kolhapur district.
Their mercy pleas were rejected by the governor in 2013 and the President in 2014. The delay of over seven years in deciding their mercy pleas was taken as a valid ground by the HC to commute their death sentence to life imprisonment.

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