Can the Nirbhaya Convicts Really be Executed on 16 December? | The Quint

Shreya Rastogi, a capital defence lawyer from Project 39A, explains how the Nirbhaya case convicts still have several legal options to challenge their death sentence, including review petitions, curative petitions and mercy petitions – and that even after these are exhausted, they can only be executed at least 2 weeks after a ‘black warrant’ is issued.
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