NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a final appeal for mercy by the only person to be sentenced to death for a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993, a day before he was due to be executed.
A three-judge panel rejected the last-minute petition, clearing the last judicial barrier to executing Yakub Memon just hours before he was due to be hanged in Nagpur jail on Thursday, his 53rd birthday.
