Top Law News Delay in hanging leads to reduced sentences, show rulings May 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government may be unwittingly entitling condemned prisoners – including Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru – to a lesser life sentence by delaying decisions on their mercy pleas, Supreme Court rulings suggest. The apex court has repeatedly held that excessive delay in executing the death penalty, leaving the condemned prisoner to suffer a “dehumanising […] Read more ยป reduced sentences