India executes men responsible for horrific 2012 Delhi bus rape
India has hanged four men who were convicted of raping and murdering a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012. Hundreds of people gathered outside the prison to celebrate the execution. They were initially sentenced to death in 2013 in a fast track court and all of their pleas were rejected.
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