Out of seven people convicted for heinous crimes, President Pranab Mukherjee has upheld execution in five cases while commuting death sentence to life term in two others.
Under Article 72 of the Constitution, the President has power to ‘grant pardons.
The following have been dismissed by the President:
Gurmeet Singh of Uttar Pradesh, who was convicted for killing 13 members of a family on August 17, 1986.
Dharampal from Haryana, who had killed five members of the family of a girl he had raped in 1993.
Daughter of a former Haryana MLA, Sonia, and her husband, Sanjeev, who killed eight of her family members in Hisar in 2001.
Sunder Singh from Uttarakhand, who was convicted for rape and murder in June 1989.
Jafar Ali from Uttar Pradesh, who was convicted for killing wife and five daughters in 2002.