Explanation:

On February 18, the 12-year-old son of Shabnam, a death row convict from Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha, appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to “forgive” his mother.

• The same day, Shabman filed a second mercy petition with the Governor of Uttar Pradesh and the President of India, both of whom have earlier rejected her plea.
• If executed, Shabnam will be the first woman in independent India to be hanged for a crime.
• These include the right to challenge the rejection of her mercy petition before the Allahabad High Court and the Supreme Court on various grounds and also the right to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court against the decision on the review petition.”

The curative petition can challenge the Supreme Court decision of January 2020, which upheld her death sentence.

• Also, under the law, if multiple people have been sentenced to death in the same case, they have to be executed together. So, Shabnam and Saleem can be hanged only after both of them exhaust all their legal recourses.
• Hanging and shooting are the two methods of death penalty in India. According to the Criminal Procedure Code, hanging is the method of execution in the civilian court system. The Army Act, 1950, however, lists both hanging and shooting as official methods of execution in the military court-martial system.
• The Mithu vs State of Punjab judgment states that death penalty is not a mandatory punishment for the above listed crimes. The Supreme Court had also ruled that mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional.

Hence only statement 1st is correct.