Bhullar stays on death row

India's Supreme Court has rejected a petition by a death row prisoner to commute his sentence to life in jail. The petition was filed by Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar on the basis that there had been "an inordinate delay" in deciding his mercy plea. He has been on death row since August 2001 for a 1993 attack in Delhi which killed nine. His plea, filed in 2002, was denied by the president in 2011, and for good reason. What one must remember is that nine people aren't around anymore because of that scumbag, so it doesn't seem right that Bhullar should get to live. And speaking of death, well-known hymns and poems will mark Baroness Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday, Downing Street says. Details of the ceremony have been published, including the hymns To Be A Pilgrim, I Vow to Thee My Country, and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. The programme features lines from Wordsworth's Intimations of Immortality and TS Eliot's Little Gidding. Meanwhile, hundreds of people took part in a demonstration yesterday condemning Lady Thatcher in Trafalgar Square. The protesters danced and sang around a large effigy of the late prime minister and chanted slogans. Scotland Yard says nine people were arrested during the protest - five of them for being drunk and disorderly.