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INDIA: SUPREME COURT GIVES DEATH SENTENCE TO MAN WHO KIDNAPPED, KILLED TAMIL NADU BOY
February 5, 2013: The Supreme Court on India decided on the death sentence for a man convicted of kidnapping and murdering a seven-year-old in Tamil Nadu.
The child was abducted in 2007 by a man named Sundar. A few days later, the boy's body was found in a gunny bag. An eyewitness identified Sundar and in 2009, a local court awarded him the death penalty, which was upheld the next year by the Madras High Court.
The convict then approached the Supreme Court; his lawyers said that this was not a "rarest of the rare" case and so the death penalty should not apply, but the Supreme Court rejected that appeal. (Sources: ndtv.com, 05/02/2013)
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