READ ON WIKIPEDIA ABOUT CONTROVERSY OF EXECUTION OF SARDAR BHAGAT SINGH Controversy There have been suggestions that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had an opportunity to stop Singhs execution, but refrained from doing so. A variation of this theory is that Gandhi actively conspired with the British to have Singh executed. Gandhis supporters argue that Gandhi did not have enough influence with the British to stop the execution, much less arrange it,[90] but claim that he did his best to save Singhs life.[91] They also assert that Singhs role in the independence movement was of no threat to Gandhis role as its leader, and so Gandhi would have no reason to want him dead.[17] Gandhi, during his lifetime, always maintained that he was a great admirer of Singhs patriotism. He also stated that he was opposed to Singhs execution (and for that matter, capital punishment in general) and proclaimed that he had no power to stop it.[90] On Singhs execution, Gandhi said, The government certainly had the right to hang these men. However, there are some rights which do credit to those who possess them only if they are enjoyed in name only.[92] Gandhi also once remarked about capital punishment, I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life, because he alone gives it.[93] Gandhi had managed to have 90,000 political prisoners who were not members of his Satyagraha movement released under the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.[17] According to a report in the Indian magazine Frontline, he did plead several times for the commutation of the death sentence of Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, including a personal visit on 19 March 1931. In a letter to the Viceroy on the day of their execution, he pleaded fervently for commutation, not knowing that the letter would be too late.[17] Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, later said:
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