<p>Human rights activists Saturday urged the government to reconsider death penalty and said the hanging of Afzal Guru could have been handled better.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I am one of those who are against death penalty irrespective of who is hanged," former Delhi High Court chief justice judge Rajinder Sachar told IANS.<br /><br />"There should have been a decency about (today's hanging)," he said. "He was not like Kasab (26/11 Mumbai attack convict)...He was an Indian.<br /><br />"The Congress seemed to have made up its mind earlier. You fix a day, let his family see him... He had his family," he said.<br /><br />Suhas Chakma, director of the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), too urged the central government to have a rethink on capital punishment and wondered if Afzal Guru's hanging had made India more secure.<br /><br />"I think the government really ought to consider whether death penalty should continue as a punishment," Chakma told IANS.<br /><br />"I do not think by hanging Afzal Guru the security of country and people has been enhanced."<br />Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the attack on the Indian parliament in 2001, was hanged Saturday at the Tihar Jail here.</p>
<p>Human rights activists Saturday urged the government to reconsider death penalty and said the hanging of Afzal Guru could have been handled better.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I am one of those who are against death penalty irrespective of who is hanged," former Delhi High Court chief justice judge Rajinder Sachar told IANS.<br /><br />"There should have been a decency about (today's hanging)," he said. "He was not like Kasab (26/11 Mumbai attack convict)...He was an Indian.<br /><br />"The Congress seemed to have made up its mind earlier. You fix a day, let his family see him... He had his family," he said.<br /><br />Suhas Chakma, director of the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), too urged the central government to have a rethink on capital punishment and wondered if Afzal Guru's hanging had made India more secure.<br /><br />"I think the government really ought to consider whether death penalty should continue as a punishment," Chakma told IANS.<br /><br />"I do not think by hanging Afzal Guru the security of country and people has been enhanced."<br />Afzal Guru, convicted for his role in the attack on the Indian parliament in 2001, was hanged Saturday at the Tihar Jail here.</p>