New Delhi, July 10 -- An Indian nurse, Nimisha Priya, on death row in war-torn Yemen, will be executed on July 16 as attempts continue to win her a stay of execution. Priya was sentenced to death for the murder of a Yemeni citizen--her former business partner - whose dismembered body was found in a water tank in 2017.

In 2020, a Yemeni court handed her the death sentence, and the country's Supreme Judicial Council dismissed her appeal in November 2023. The 38-year-old nurse is presently lodged in a jail in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital city that is under the control of Iran-backed Houthis.

As the clamour against the sentencing of the Malayali nurse gained traction, politicians like Mehbooba Mufti and Rajya Sabha MP Sandosh Kumar sought the...