Four men executed in India for 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder


Asha Devi, mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape, facing camera, is embraced by an unidentified woman after the rapists of her daughter were hanged, in New Delhi, India, on Friday (March 20).The Four men were sentenced to capital punishment for the 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student on a moving bus in New Delhi have been executed. - AP

NEW DELHI: Four men were executed on Friday (March 20) for the gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in December 2012, bringing closure to a case that shone the spotlight on widespread sexual violence faced by women in India.

A lone hangman carried out the executions after courts rejected last-minute pleas by the convicts' lawyers, with the hearings going till late Thursday night.

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