A book ‘Hang Till Death’ by advocate Prateek Jain was launched in city here on Friday.
At a time when an enraged India is demanding "capital punishment" for those who raped and murdered a 25-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad, a new book retells the stories of 11 high-profile criminal cases that culminated in a death sentence.
Hang till Death, written by Advocate Prateek Jain and motivational trainer , delves deeper into the history of death penalty in India before taking the readers through detailed accounts of convicts and the crimes they committed to face the harshest punishment.
This includes cases like Nathuram Vinayak Godse's 1949, Caron 1969, Ranga-Billa 1982, Maqbool Bhatt 1984, Satwant-Kehar Singh 1989, Harjinder-Sukhdev Singh 1992, Auto Shankar 1995, Dhananjay 2004, Kasab 2012, Afzal Guru 2013 and Yakub Memom 2015.
Published by "Bloomsbury" Publications in New Delhi, London, Oxfrod, New York and Sydney, the publisher is well-known for his books like Harry Potter, Shiv Kheda's You Can Win.The book begins with the 1948 case of Nathuram Vinayak Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, along with co-conspirator Narayan Apte, and covers all the cases till the most recent one on Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who was executed by hanging on 30 July, 2015 in Nagpur jail for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombings.
"Each story is meticulously researched and traced from the beginning, including facts which have never been revealed, and with the perpetrator's circumstances and motivations analysed," publishers Bloomsbury said."Justice may be delayed, but it will never be denied, irrespective of what obstacles lie in the path. These 11 stories prove this fact”, said Prateek.