The Supreme Court setting A.G. Perarivalan, one of the life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, at liberty is a shot in the arm for the People’s Movement Against Death Penalty, its convenor Selvaraj Murugaiyan has said.
Reacting to Perarivalan’s release after 31 years of imprisonment in the case, Mr. Murugaiyan, who spearheaded the campaign against death penalty by lobbying with politicians, legal experts and other rights activists, said perseverance paid off for Perarivalan.
He said the PMADP was founded by the late Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer against the cruel and barbaric practice of death sentences in evolved societies.
