Capital Punishment - the rarest of rare case
India executed a criminal for the first time in 13 years. Dhananjoy Chatterjee, convicted 14 years ago of raping and murdering a 14 years old teenage school girl in 1990. Chatterjee was convicted of raping and suffocating Hetal Parekh, who lived in a Calcutta apartment building where he worked as a security guard. He was arrested in 1990 and transferred to the solitary confinement death row cell after his 1991 conviction.
An 84 years old hangman, helped by his son and grandson, was brought out of retirement to carry out the execution. Hangman Nata Mullick carried out 24 hangings in his life. His price for the hanging: $435.
India’s Supreme Court ruled in 1983 that the death penalty should be imposed only in “the rarest of rare cases,” in which a murder is committed in an “extremely brutal, grotesque, diabolical, revolting or dastardly manner so as to arouse intense and extreme indignation.”
Read more about this case at http://news.google.com.
