A pair of serial killer sisters from India who murdered nine kids — one not even a year old — say they shouldn’t be hanged on the gallows because doing so would more “barbaric” than they deserve.
Instead, a lawyer for Renuka Shinde and her younger sibling Seema Gavit is making one last-ditch bid to have a judge commute their sentence to life in prison, according to News.com.au.
Shinde and Gavit, now both in their 40s, have been held in custody since 1996 when they were busted along with their mother Anjana Bai Gavit for kidnapping 13 young children and murdering nine as part of a pickpocketing ring that operated out of the city of Pune.
Their helpless victims commissioned to help them steal, ranged in age from nine months to two years old.
The evil trio killed the children they deemed useless in the most gruesome ways.
The nine-month-old was starved and beaten to death because he cried too much, another was gagged and drowned in a toilet and a 4-year-old boy was hung upside down, his head slammed against a wall until he died.
The sisters were convicted at trial in 2001 of six of the nine slayings – but one was overturned on appeal.
Their mom died behind bars in 1997 while awaiting trial.
The sisters are now among 13 women on death row in India, including Fahmida Sayed, who planted a car bomb in Mumbai that left 54 people dead in 2003.
The last woman to be hanged in the country was in 1955.
The sisters’ previous exhausted all appeals to have their execution overturned.