India Hangs 4 Men Convicted in Fatal New Delhi Rape Case

India Hangs 4 Men Convicted in Fatal New Delhi Rape Case
Asha Devi (L) mother of the victim of the fatal 2012 gang rape on a moving bus, displays a victory sign with her sister after the rapists of her daughter were hanged, in New Delhi, India, on March 20, 2020. Altaf Qadri/AP Photo
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Four men sentenced to death for the gruesome gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012 were hanged on March 20, concluding a case that exposed the scope of sexual violence in India and prompted horrified Indians to demand swift justice.

The four stood trial relatively quickly in India’s slow-moving justice system, their convictions and sentences handed down less than a year after the crime. India’s top court upheld the verdicts in 2017, finding the men’s crimes had created a “tsunami of shock” among Indians.