CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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• Nirbhaya, a para-medic student, was gangraped by six men in a moving bus in South West Delhi in December 2012. Another accused killed himself in jail and the sixth - a juvenile - was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term. 
  
  
• The last death sentence executed by the justice system in India was the 30 July 2015 hanging of terrorist Yakub Memon, who was convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
  
  
• Hanging and shooting are the two methods of death penalty in India.
  • According to the Criminal Procedure Code, hanging is the method of execution in the civilian court system.
    
    
  • The Army Act, 1950, however, lists both hanging and shooting as official methods of execution in the military court-martial system.