Serial killer's execution stayed at the last minute

[Zonesylvania]

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[quote]The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of Surinder Koli, convicted of Nithari killings, for a week until a fresh review petition challenging his death penalty is heard in an open courtroom by a Bench of three judges of the apex court.

The stay order was passed by a Bench of Justices H.L. Dattu and A.R. Dave at the former’s official residence in Delhi a few hours before Koli was scheduled to be hanged.

The hook and loop to hang Koli had arrived from Naini Central Jail in Allahabad to the Chaudhary Charan Singh district jail, where he was shifted to for his execution.

“We approached Justice Dattu at 1.30 am. There was a sitting of a Bench of Justices Dattu and Dave, which ordered that the execution be stayed for a period of a week until Koli’s fresh review be heard by a Bench comprising three judges of the Supreme Court in an open courtroom, where his counsel will be allowed to submit limited oral arguments on his behalf pleading for reversal of his reversal of death penalty,” Indira Jaising, senior advocate, told The Hindu on Monday.

The same Bench had dismissed an earlier review petition by Koli on July 25, saying there was no merit in it.

But a 4:1 majority judgment pronounced by a Constitution Bench led by CJI R.M. Lodha on September 3 has now led to this temporary reprieve for Koli.[/quote]

[D-Roy]

Reversal of reversal of death penalty. This gets me.

[Awesomecaek]

Must be really nerve wrecking to sit there and wait while people are deciding if you will be allowed to stay alive, the tools to end you already at the ready.

[Bat-shit]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;45923509]Must be really nerve wrecking to sit there and wait while people are deciding if you will be allowed to stay alive, the tools to end you already at the ready.[/QUOTE]

Not necessarily. You have to consider it from a serial killer's position.

So it [I]may[/I] not be as nerve wrecking to him as it would be to an otherwise innocent civilian.