She killed 7 members of her family while she was pregnant .. An Indian woman is awaiting the first execution in 66 years

Shabnam awaiting death sentence.

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Time is running out for an Indian woman, about 12 years ago, who killed 7 members of her family with a crime described by the media as "hideous and bitter," while her child, who gave birth to him in prison, appealed to the authorities to pardon and give mercy to his mother.

According to CNN, the tragic and bloody incident took place on April 15, 2008, in the village of Pawan Khairi, located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.

According to court documents, Shabnam Ali, who was 22 at the time of the crime, had an affair with a young man named Saleem, but her family did not agree to their association for social and class reasons.

The documents indicated that the neighbors had rushed in the last watch of the night to the sounds of terrifying screams, so Latifullah Khan was one of the first to arrive at the family's two-story house to find Shabnam lying on the ground, losing consciousness near the body of her father, Shawkat Ali, who was cut On his neck, after which the police found the bodies of my brother, the accused, her mother, her sister-in-law, and her 14-year-old cousin in a blood-stained room with their heads almost cut off, while her nephew, who was later discovered by investigations that he had been strangled to death, appeared asleep among the bodies of his parents.

In the event that Basnam's sentence is executed, she will be the first woman to be executed in India in 66 years, noting that the first woman to be executed was called, Ratan Bai Jain, and her execution dates back to 1955, after she was convicted of killing three girls.

When Shabnam, who worked as a teacher of her crime, committed the eighth week pregnant with her lover Salim, however, the defense team denied that his client was aware of this, and that she discovered the matter during a routine medical examination following her arrest.

But the Public Prosecution said in its pleading that this pregnancy may be one of the most important reasons for committing the crime by the two lovers in order to inherit the wealth of the whole family and establish a family that lives a well-off and luxurious life.

According to media reports, Salim participated in the crime by purchasing sleeping materials that he obtained through one of his friends, to be used by Shabnam to sleep her family before her lover arrived at home carrying an ax with which he committed the mass murder.

The age of Shabnam's son, Beto (a pseudonym), is 12 years old, and he was born in prison and spent the first 6 years of his life in prison with his mother, but now he lives with an adoptive family as the law in India does not allow a mother to live with her child in Imprisonment after the age of six.

As her execution nears, Shabnam's legal team is trying to stop the execution, and they argue that the woman is also a victim, as lawyer Shriya Rastogi says that her client, who has not yet confessed to committing the crime, is a victim of a patriarchal society.

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