Politics of death sentences in India

Prima facie, it is not easy to refute Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's argument that if the Tamil Nadu and Punjab legislatures can ask for the pardon of Rajiv Gandhi's killers and Khalistani terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, why should those Kashmiris be pilloried who want a similar reprieve for Afzal Guru, the terrorist involved in the attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.
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