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India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists supporting death penalty of 1993 Mumbai blasts accused Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, are stopped by police during a protest in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Memon, an accountant, convicted of providing financial and logistical support in the series of bombings that shook India's business and entertainment hub in 1993 is scheduled to be hanged Thursday, July 30, 2015. About 300 prominent citizens, including at least eight retired judges of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court, have urged India's president to commute Memon's sentence to life in prison, reflecting what appears to be growing uneasiness in India with the death penalty. Yet some of the most ardent supporters of capital punishment are leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)
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