A second mercy petition has been filed before President Ram Nath Kovind by the 12-year-old son of Shabnam, a death row convict, seeking to convert her capital punishment to life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court today (July 16) has issued notice on a petition seeking guidelines for disposal of clemency/mercy petitions and exhaustion of legal remedies by death-row- convicts and execution of sentence, in a time bound manner, for cases in which death penalty have been awarded.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking guidelines for disposal of clemency/mercy petitions and exhaustion of legal remedies by death-row- convicts and execution of sentence, in a time bound manner, for cases in which death penalty have been awarded.