"Life has become hell in the jail. I requested the government to take an immediate decision over my sentence just two months ago. I don't wish to be part of the living dead," Afzal Guru had said in June 2008 in a rare interview to IANS in Tihar Jail's prison 3 where he spent his last moments.
Then, as now, the country was getting into election mode.
"I don't think the (UPA-I) government can ever reach a decision," he had said in what was perhaps his last interview.
He was proved wrong.