Mangalore: Amnesty International is making all efforts to abolish the death penalty in a non-violent Gandhian India and commute such a sentence of hanging to death, in to a life long imprisonment committed to remorse and development of a better personality even in a jail.
AI secretary general Salil Shetty informed media on Tuesday that 135 out of 180 UN member-nations had stopped execution of murderers and other criminals. He said the NGO will pressurise India to sign a moratorium of executional law. The AI has 30 lakhs membership campaigning for human rights in 150 nations and seeks innovative ways of implementing laws or real changes. Hundreds of prisoners have been released so far, many more have to be freed. Salil has been a Mangalorean and a Tuluva like Aishwarya Rai but rarely comparison with her. He stood for fair trial and against police tortures.