Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
India

INDIA: SC AWARDS DEATH TO MAN WHO HACKED WIFE, 5 CHILDREN

the Indian Supreme Court awarded capital punishment to a man identified as Jagdiah who hacked his wife and five children to death with a long knife on August 19, 2005.

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the Indian Supreme Court awarded capital punishment to a man identified as Jagdiah who hacked his wife and five children to death with a long knife on August 19, 2005. Justices H S Bedi and J M Panchal rejected Jagdiah's lunacy plea. He was sentenced to death because of the unusual brutality of the murders.
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  • (Sources: Times of India, 19/09/2009)