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Don't delay decisions on mercy pleas, it benefits convicts: SC

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The Supreme Court on Friday directed state governments and other concerned authorities not to delay decisions on mercy petitions by death row convicts, who could gain an advantage from the hold-up. The court said, "If even after the final conclusion...there is an inordinate delay in not deciding the mercy petition, the object and purpose of the death sentence would be frustrated," reported The Tribune.


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