{{A Kashmiri man convicted in a 2001 attack on India’s Parliament that left 14 people dead was hanged Saturday after a final mercy plea was rejected, a senior Indian Home Ministry official said.}}<\/p>\n
Home Secretary R.K. Singh told reporters that Mohammed Afzal Guru was executed early Saturday morning at New Delhi’s Tihar prison.<\/p>\n
“It was the law taking its course,” Singh said.<\/p>\n
Guru was given a Muslim burial in the prison compound, Press Trust of India news agency reported. His family in the India’s Jammu-Kashmir state has demanded that his body be handed over, but that seems unlikely given the highly sensitive nature of the execution.<\/p>\n
Guru had been on death row since first being convicted in 2002. <\/p>\n
Subsequent appeals in higher courts were also rejected, and India’s Supreme Court set an execution date for October 2006. But his execution was delayed after his wife filed a mercy petition with India’s president. <\/p>\n
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