Voice of America: Rights Group: India Should Work to Abolish Death Penalty

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Rights Group: India Should Work to Abolish Death Penalty Feb 9th 2013, 19:26 A prominent human rights group is urging India to reinstate its informal moratorium on executions as a step toward abolishing the death penalty. Human Rights Watch issued the appeal Saturday after India hanged a Kashmiri man convicted for his role in the 2001 attack on India's parliament. An official with the U.S.-based group, Meenakshi Ganguly, said people who engage in serious crimes should be punished. But he also said the death penalty is "brutal and irreversible," and that ...

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