It's important to understand why some people support capital punishment
- Written by The Conversation
Executions are rare in India, but debate over the death penalty is intense.EPA/Farooq KhanAfter eight years on death row, Yakub Memon, who was convicted in 2007 for his role in financing the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings in which 257 people died, was hanged at a prison in Nagpur, India.
Memon was only the fourth person to be executed in India since...








