PATIALA, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 21: Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is facing death penalty for assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, coming out of Government Rajindra Hospital on September 21, 2015 in Patiala, India. Rajoana was waiting the President to decide over his mercy petition pending in his office since 2012. After his death warrants were issued by a Chandigarh Court on March 13, 2012, both Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) and Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) had filed mercy petition for Rajoana. (Photo by Bharat Bhushan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)