Posted on 03/19/2020 9:44:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Four men have been executed for the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in 2012, a case that shone a global spotlight on shocking rates of sexual assault in India.
Akshay Thakur, Mukesh Singh, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were hanged at a jail in the Indian capital on Friday, March 20, more than six years after being convicted of raping and killing the woman, known only as "Nirbhaya."
The four men were convicted in 2013, but three of them appealed their death sentence to India's top court, the Supreme Court. All appeals were denied, including mercy pleas to India's President Ram Nath Kovind.
Under Indian law, victims of certain crimes cannot be named.
While reports of rape are all too common, the execution of prisoners for any type of crime in India is rare.
In 2018, trial courts imposed 162 death sentences -- the highest number in nearly two decades -- according to data collated by National Law University in Delhi.
However, there were no recorded executions that year, according to Amnesty International. Only a handful of people have been executed over the past 20 years, including three terrorists, and Dhananjoy Chatterjee, who was executed in 2004 over the rape and murder of a school girl. Recently, the Supreme Court has commuted a number of death penalties to life imprisonment
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Well, that’s a shame...
7 years. I’m jealous. Our prisoners on death row die of old age.
“Mercy pleas”??? They sure didn’t have any mercy for their victim. I hope they choked nice and slow.
There were several similar attacks on women during that time.
Many of these were tourists. Maybe it continues and is not broadcast. Not a place women should travel alone in if they have a choice.
many of them were also their own local women- all women were not safe from the roving gang rapists-
“...7 years. Im jealous. Our prisoners on death row die of old age....”
Yeah...no kidding. 7 years would be quick here. It should be no more than 7 hours, but we can thank bleeding-heart insane libs for the old age sentencing these days.
Libs are a virus...demavirus.
Death penalty for rape and/or murder is biblical.
But I am also for death penalty for lying about rape and/or murder. That too, is biblical.
You would like Pakistan. = The USA once wanted custody of a civilian who had beaten a tourist to death with a piece of pipe in Pondicherry, India. - He fled to Pakistan & the USA requested that he be returned to US custody for trial for manslaughter.
While the paperwork was being completed the Pakistani prosecutor’s office learned that he had also raped/murdered 2 teenage school girls in their nation.
He insisted on being tried for his crimes in Pakistan & under Muslim law.
He was tried by a panel of judges shortly after Noon that day, admitted his guilt, was sentenced to death & shot by firing squad about 1400 hours that same afternoon in the garden of the courthouse.
The Pakistani Superior Court decreed that the corpse was to be returned to US custody forthwith.
Yours, TMN78247
Maybe the UK and Europe will wake up at some point and provide the same service to their people, for the same type crimes.
There was another perp, a juvenile. He served a short sentence and was freed a few years ago.
Execution for rape.
Go India!
Still taking too long, though.
It was all the fault of this university student for being on the bus with her boyfriend after seeing a movie, so she deserved to have her internal organs stabbed repeatedly through her vagina and anus with a rusty piece of rebar while her boyfriend was held down and had to listen to her screams.
Hanging was too good for these demons.
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