Your editorial “Let’s celebrate the death penalty (Yes!) The Sunday Indian News Weekly) was an excellent piece. I appreciate your dare. It is surprise to note that over one quarter of the total MPs elected to Indian Parliament in 2004 faced criminal charges. Our media gives much hype to criminal and their associates. Take the case of Abu Salem and his girlfriend Monica Bedi. Their photographs are on the newspaper’s front page, that too, with much prominence. Your editorial is an eye opener to such publicity mongers