India: Further information on death penalty / legal concern

S Nalini (f), Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan are scheduled for execution on 9 June 1999. They were among 26 people sentenced to death for murder and conspiracy to murder the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, who died in a bomb explosion in Tamil Nadu in 1991. The other 22 have had their sentences quashed or commuted.

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