New Delhi: Yakub Memon, the lone 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict who was hanged to death today, became the third terror convict to have been sent to the gallows in the last four years.

Memon, who would have turned 53 today was executed at Nagpur Central Jail. Before Memon, Parliament attack convict Mohamammed Afzal Guru was hanged at 8 AM at Tihar jail here on February 9, 2013. Afzal was convicted of conspiracy in the December 2001 attack on Parliament and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court in 2004.