News agencies are reporting that Ajmal Kasab was hanged to death in Pune’s Yerawada Jail at 7.30am this morning.
Today’s edition of the Indian Express carries a story on its front page that the President of India had rejected Kasab’s mercy petition though the report does not indicate when the decision was taken.
My op-ed in The Hindu (in September 2012) had argued that the outcome of the Kasab and Maya Kodnani cases indicated the arbitrariness that informs the administration of death penalty in India.
