Capital Punishment India

Ten times, Mammu Singh has tightened the noose around a condemned man's neck, pulled the trapdoor's iron lever and watched the prisoner drop, and this is the thanks he gets. The hangman is now a prisoner of the same state that hired him to kill. Constables arrested the executioner Sunday because he has made no payments on a $65 loan he took out from the government-owned Syndicate Bank in 1989.

Ten times, Mammu Singh has tightened the noose around a condemned man's neck, pulled the trapdoor's iron lever and watched the prisoner drop, and this is the thanks he gets. The hangman is now a prisoner of the same state that hired him to kill. Constables arrested the executioner Sunday because he has made no payments on a $65 loan he took out from the government-owned Syndicate Bank in 1989.