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| No mercy, terrorist bomber must hang says court |
| 2006-08-04 |
| NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court showed no mercy to a man who allegedly planted a bomb in a bus in 1997 during the serial blasts which shocked the Capital. The high court sentenced the man to death, upholding the verdict of a lower court. In a strongly worded judgment, Mohammad Hussain's plea to set him free was struck down by a Bench of Justice R S Sodhi and Justice P K Bhasin for "satisfying the conscience of society", as the accused was a "menace to society" and did not "deserve to exist on this earth". "Showing any mercy to people like the appellant (Hussain) would be a mockery of justice... whenever some person is found guilty of this kind of gruesome act and ghastly murder, the penalty of death sentence is the only appropriate punishment and there is no alternative to it," the judges observed. Referring to a Supreme Court judgment, the court bracketed the case under the rarest of rare category, which is the ground for death penalty for those found guilty of murder. Subscribing to the view of the trial court and giving it their consideration, the judges termed Hussain's act of creating circumstances causing the death of four people as heinous. "Our country has been a victim of many such incidents of bomb blasts for some years now at the hands of the terrorists and innocent lives have been lost." |
| Posted by:john |
| #4 He got 9 more years than his victims. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2006-08-04 21:35 |
| #3 I'll just be happy when he's dead. I don't care how much or how little he suffers. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-08-04 21:16 |
| #2 I hope it is a slow pull. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-08-04 19:03 |
| #1 cool - hope it's sharp drop |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-08-04 19:01 |