NEW DELHI – On July 30, Yakub Memon, a chartered accountant and the brother of a notorious gangster now living in self-imposed exile, was hanged for complicity in the planning and execution of serial bomb blasts that killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993. The hanging, India’s first in three years, has prompted reactions ranging from dismay to scarcely concealed bloodlust.
新德里——7月30日，既是臭名昭著的匪徒的兄弟、又是注册会计师的雅各布·梅蒙因1993年合谋在孟买策划及实施连环爆炸案，造成257人死亡而被执行绞刑。这是三年来印度首次执行绞刑，引发了从惊慌到几乎毫不掩饰的嗜血等各种反应。这加剧了印度国内对死刑的争论。