New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was "saddened" by 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's execution on Thursday.
<img title="Shashi Tharoor" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jul/30-Shashi-Tharoor-1.jpg" alt="Shashi Tharoor" /> Shashi Tharoor. Pic/Shadab Khan
"Saddened by news that our government has hanged a human being. State-sponsored killing diminishes us all by reducing us to murderers too," Tharoor tweeted.
"There is no evidence that death penalty serves as a deterrent, to the contrary in fact. All it does is exact retribution, unworthy of a Government," the Thiruvananthapuram MP added.
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He said: "... cold-blooded execution has never prevented a terror attack anywhere."
Yakub Memon was hanged to death in Nagpur prison early Thursday.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was "saddened" by 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's execution on Thursday.

Saddened by Yakub Memon's execution: Shashi Tharoor

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said he was "saddened" by 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's execution on Thursday.

Saddened by Yakub Memon's execution: Shashi Tharoor

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