'We cannot turn a blind eye to such gruesome crimes': Indian rape gang are sentenced to DEATH after murder that shocked nation and exposed rampant abuse

Four men were yesterday sentenced to death by hanging for the gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus. An Indian court ruled the men should go to the gallows for the attack which left the 23-year-old woman with such severe internal injuries she died two weeks later. The judge said the ultimate punishment was needed as a ‘strong deterrent’ after a case that ‘shocked the conscience’ of a nation.

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But legal experts warned it could be years before the four men exhaust the appeal process and are hanged. Some even doubt whether the men will ever be executed, as the vast majority of death penalties are commuted to life in prison. India’s Supreme Court has ruled the death penalty should be used only in ‘the rarest of rare cases’.

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