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| India's top court upholds death sentences for 2012 Delhi gang rape convicts |
| 2017-05-06 |
| [DAWN] India's top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in New Delhi in 2012. The court held that the nature of the crime, which triggered massive protests across India, made it a fit case for the death penalty. It described the assault as "most brutal, barbaric and diabolical," according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The victim's father said he was happy with the court judgement and demanded that the convicts be hanged quickly. "The court heard our voice and gave justice," he said. Prosecutors said the four Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh took their victim to the back of a private bus in New Delhi, raping her and then damaging her internal organs with an iron rod. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Re #1: Short drop hanging - put them on a stool with the rope around their neck. Then kick the stool out from under them. They strangle rather than die from a broken neck, like i a long drop hanging. Oh, the victim's family meant hang them SOON. Yeah, I can go with that. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-05-06 12:46 |
| #5 Ima thinkrn that an iron bar should play a part in each of their executions ....a very hot one. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-05-06 12:04 |
| #4 Ima thinkrn that an iron bar should play a part in each of their executions. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-06 11:46 |
| #3 the four Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh took their victim to the back of a private bus in New Delhi, raping her and then damaging her internal organs with an iron rod. She died two weeks later of injuries in a hospital in Singapore, where she was taken for treatment. Hanging results in no recidivism for these four. The fifth perp was found hanging in his cell. The names sound Indian and the perps are probably Hindu if they have a religion. Were this Pakistain, the perps would probably get off for lack of enough witnesses. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-06 09:38 |
| #2 I'd rather they were hung slowly. ...then drawn and quartered. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-05-06 07:57 |
| #1 I'd rather they were hung slowly. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-06 01:41 |