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INDIA: HIGH COURT STAYS EXECUTION OF RAJIV GANDHI'S KILLERS
August 30, 2011: The Madras High Court in southern India has stayed the executions of three men convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The men - Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - were to have been hanged at a jail in Tamil Nadu on 9 September but that has now been put back eight weeks.
India's president rejected a plea for mercy this month. Lawyers for the men say the time taken to decide the plea - 11 years - was unconstitutional. (Sources: bbc.co.uk/; global post.com; 30/08/2011)
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