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Communist Vietnam's secret death penalty conveyor belt: How country trails only China and Iran for 'astonishing' number of executions

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Prisoners are dragged from their cells at 4am without warning to be given a lethal injection Vietnam's use of the death penalty has been thrust into the spotlight after a real estate tycoon was on Thursday sentenced to be executed in one of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. Truong My Lan, a businesswoman who chaired a sprawling company that developed luxury apartments, hotels, offices and shopping malls, was arrested in 2022.

India: Execution Of Man Who Murdered 2 Tamil Nadu Siblings Stopped By Top Court

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The Supreme Court will hear the case again on October 16

The execution of a man guilty of murdering 2 young siblings in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore in 2010, set for Friday, has been stopped for now by the Supreme Court.

The execution of Manoharan was stopped by a 3-judge bench headed by Justice RF Nariman after the convict's lawyer told the top court that she wanted to inspect the records of the case which are lying in the concerned trial court.

The bench, also consisting of justices Sanjeev Khanna and Surya Kant, made it clear that it was granting the last opportunity to the lawyer to argue the case on October 16 since it relates to death penalty.

Manoharan's lawyer told the Supreme Court that seven lawyers were changed in the case due to which the convict was not duly represented from trial court to the top court.

The convict, Manoharan, had approached the Supreme Court for a review of the court's order confirming death penalty.

In August this year, the Supreme Court, in a majority judgement of 2:1, had confirmed the death sentence of Manoharan for the rape of a 10-year-old girl and the double murder of the child and her seven-year-old brother in Coimbatore in 2009.

The majority decision had concluded that the convict showed no remorse for the crime, and categorized it as "rarest of rare category", deserving death penalty.

Manoharan, along with another convict Mohankrishnan had kidnapped the two siblings in October 2010, and then raped the girl. They were then killed by giving them milk laced with poison and thrown into a canal.

Mohankrishnan, who had masterminded the crime, was killed in an encounter with the police.

Source: ndtv.com, Staff, September 17, 2019


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