Kerala HC commutes man's death sentence to life term in murder

The Kerala High Court on Thursday commuted to life term, the death penatly awarded to a contractor for killing three people here in 2009. Edison was sentenced to death by a lower court in 2015 after he was found guilty of killing three of his workers by setting them on fire in their room in 2009, for monetary gain of avoiding payment of wage arrears due to them.

A division bench of Justices A Hariprasad and N Anil Kumar commuted the death sentence of Thomas Alva Edison from Tuticorin district in Tamil Nadu, observing that the case will not fall in the category of "rarest of rare". The court also made it clear the convict will not be entitled to any remissions for 25 years and he shall suffer sentence till the end of his life.

A court here had awarded death sentence to the man, holding that it would fall in the category of "rarest of rare" case. Edison was 24 year old as on the date of offence..

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