The Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of Rajiv Gandhi's killers to life term citing the delay as killers were seeking mercy for past 11 years.

 The three convicts on death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case are Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan.

The SC judges said that there was an inordinate delay on government and President's part to decide their mercy chances.

Rajiv Gandhi was killed in 1991. He was the sixth Prime Minister of India, serving from 1984 to 1989. It was one of the shocking incident ever happened in the history of India. Rajiv Gandhi was such a great person. The killers do deserve a death punishment.

Attorney General GE Vahanvati had told the court that all through these 11 years, the three assassins were living a full life by holding music shows, art exhibitions and other recreational activities in the jail. So they were enjoying their jail life rather.

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