Mercy Petitions
Since his conviction in 1991, several mercy petitions had been filed by Sarabjit's lawyers. The fifth petition was filed on 28 May 2012 along with 100,000 signatures collected from India. None of the mercy petitions had been granted.
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As mercy does.”
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