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Tamil Nadu government rules that former prime minister's 7 killers have served their time
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The Indian state of Tamil Nadu ruled yesterday that seven men jailed for assassinating former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi should be freed for having served over 20 years in prison.
The state government decision came a day after India’s Supreme Court commuted three of the seven convicts’ death sentences to life in prison.
Their lawyers argued that executing the three now, after they had already served long prison terms, would amount to an unconstitutional double punishment.
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