Dont hang Rajiv killers,says Aiyar

Strongly aruging for abolition of death sentence by India,Congress Rajya Sabha member Mani Shankar Aiyar said the three death row convicts.

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Strongly aruging for abolition of death sentence by India,Congress Rajya Sabha member Mani Shankar Aiyar on Saturday said the three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi killing should not be hanged but held in prison for their entire life.

Addressing a party meeting here,Aiyar said 139 countries had done away with capital punishment and last year 67 convicts were hanged in 22 countries but none in India.

Describing the assassination of the former PM as a heinous crime and grave sin,he said instead of being hanged,the three Santhan,Murugan and Perarivalan should be made to spend rest of their life in prison. If they get life sentence and are released they may kill another chief minister or prime minister. So for the sin committed by them,they should be ordered to be kept inside the prison till the end of their life, he said.

The Madras High Court last week stayed the execution of the three convicts fixed for September 9.

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