India: President Pranab Mukherjee rejects mercy plea of 2 convicts of Jharkhand massacre

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqeFNRY1dWkD9ACns9qxcEA0zI-NrapGY8iurh_jpvoTScL3ACxJrOVjE6CGsp9JEdGojYAhvw53AZEjKOoHPvA_OnL9Z_nkRBgwp2lipL46ERseFphu9LyxJK5mosRx7aZ-kSkMLy0I/s1600/noose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqeFNRY1dWkD9ACns9qxcEA0zI-NrapGY8iurh_jpvoTScL3ACxJrOVjE6CGsp9JEdGojYAhvw53AZEjKOoHPvA_OnL9Z_nkRBgwp2lipL46ERseFphu9LyxJK5mosRx7aZ-kSkMLy0I/s400/noose.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The mercy plea of 2 convicts, who killed 8 members of a family including a physically disabled youth in Jharkhand nearly 9 years ago, has been rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The President has rejected the plea of the convicts-- Mofil Khan and Mobarak Khan, officials said today. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The duo had in June 2007 killed Haneef Khan with sharp-edged weapons when he was offering prayers at a mosque in Makandu village under Lohardaga district in the state. After killing him, they murdered his wife and his 6 sons which included the disabled youth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A case was registered by the local police against Mofil and Mobarak and 2 other assailants. Following the probe, a local court there had given death sentence to all the accused. However, the Jharkhand High Court had upheld death penalty to Mofil and Mubarak and modified the sentence to life term for the 2 others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Supreme Court in its final judgement in October 2014 also upheld the death penalty given to the convicts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A mercy petition was then filed before the President through the Home Ministry. The plea, which was received in December last year at the Presidents secretariat, seeking mercy has been rejected by Mukherjee, they said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After taking over as the President in July 2012, Mukherjee has rejected 26 mercy pleas so far including those of 26/11 terror case convict Ajmal Kasab and 1993 blast case convict Yakub Memon. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The death sentence in 2 cases has been commuted to life by the President. 2 mercy petitions of Jeetendra Gehlaut alias Jeetu, convicted for killing 5 women and 2 children during a robbery in Maharashtra, and Shabnam, who was convicted for killing 7 members of her family at Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, are pending with the President.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: India Today, June 23, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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Mom of killer on death row for Collin County murder makes case to pope

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahPTlPAB_gmqBDXzj4GTZUUmZCJu-FG9Cxnn9xQ7qMkvSR8ICRdC07E9NJ2FPGQh-qzMNckK1e9jg_blyesm4pCe8GwZr8SMIREWGV6cQd99cIdg1SAs28pjyfRmsrcJYljT-P1geOKY/s1600/Pope+Francis+talks+with+Lidia+Guerrero%252C+the+Argentine+mother+of+a+man+on+death+row+in+Texas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pope Francis talks with Lidia Guerrero, the Argentine mother of a man on death row in Texas" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahPTlPAB_gmqBDXzj4GTZUUmZCJu-FG9Cxnn9xQ7qMkvSR8ICRdC07E9NJ2FPGQh-qzMNckK1e9jg_blyesm4pCe8GwZr8SMIREWGV6cQd99cIdg1SAs28pjyfRmsrcJYljT-P1geOKY/s400/Pope+Francis+talks+with+Lidia+Guerrero%252C+the+Argentine+mother+of+a+man+on+death+row+in+Texas.jpg" title="Pope Francis talks with Lidia Guerrero, the Argentine mother of a man on death row in Texas" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Pope Francis talks with Lidia Guerrero, the Argentine mother of a man on</div><div style="text-align: left;">death row in Texas.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has met for a second time with the Argentine mother of a man on death row for the 1995 slaying of a Plano man.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Vatican announced the meeting Saturday between Francis and Lidia Guerrero but gave no details.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After their first meeting, in Rome in 2014, the mother said that the pope, who is also Argentine, assured her of his prayers for Victor Hugo Saldano, who was convicted in 1996 for abducting and fatally shooting Paul Ray King, 46. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Francis has vigorously promoted Vatican teaching saying capital punishment is morally unjustified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saldano entered the United States illegally in the early 1990s.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The day laborer from Argentina became the first person sentenced to death from that country since it won independence from Spain in 1809.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saldano and an accomplice, Jorge Chavez, 27, abducted King from a Sack 'n Save supermarket Nov. 25, 1995, and killed him later at Lake Lavon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Guerrero has said her son is guilty of murder but has been driven insane during his time on death row and has already paid for his crime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chavez, the accomplice, received a life sentence in the case. He will be eligible for parole in 2035.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: The Dallas Morning News, AP, June 12, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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