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Officials from the prison of Jorhat have a shortage of staff willing to send criminals to the gallows and have begun advertising for someone qualified for the job, UK's Metro reported.

The job description appears to be for only the one execution -- that of Mahendra Nath Das, who was sentenced to death after committing a gruesome beheading in a busy market.

Judges in India rarely hand down a death sentences, but the court felt Das' crime deserved the penalty after he ran through the street carrying the bloodied head of an official in the local transporters' union.

There have only been two hangings in the country in the past 15 years and India's most experienced practitioner, Nata Mullick, passed away in 2009 -- leaving the role vacant.

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印度监狱招聘刽子手

       英国《都市报》消息，印度焦尔哈德市监狱缺少把罪犯送上绞刑架的行刑人员，所以开始打广告招人。

       职责描述中写到实际上这个人就需要执行一次死刑，把马亨德拉·奈斯·达斯送上绞刑架，他由于在闹市上砍下一个人的头而被判死刑。

       印度法官通常很少判人死刑，但法庭认为达斯的罪行使人忍无可忍，他杀了当地交通协会的一位官员，并提着他血淋淋的头在闹市奔跑。

       在过去的15年间，印度仅有两人被判死刑，而印度最有经验的刽子手纳塔·穆利克在2009年去世，使得这一职位空缺。

(China.org.cn June 7, 2011)