INDIA. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MAN CONVICTED OF MURDER

the Supreme Court of India upheld the death penalty imposed by a trial court in Assam on Holiram Bordoloi, “a village leader who killed three people to show his supremacy among others”.
Bordoloi murdered a man and his six-year-old son by pushing them into a burning house and locking the door. The boy managed to come out but was thrown back into the flames.
Bordoloi, a government employee, then dragged the man's elder brother out of his house and hacked him to death in front of bystanders.
Describing the murders as cold-blooded, a bench of Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.N. Srikrishna said it had no reason not to uphold the death penalty.
The bench said the victims had not provoked the incident. The murders were pre-planned and meant to deter others in the village from challenging Bordoloi's supremacy.
He had appealed for the death penalty to be turned into life imprisonment, but the bench said: "There was no kindness or compassion (in Bordoloi) and the incident would have shocked the collective conscience of the community." Bordoloi had originally been sentenced to death by a trial court in Assam and had had his conviction upheld by the Gauhati High Court.  cond metimp reordviomi dicgiu