Four convicts in Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case were hanged to death at Tihar jail in Delhi.
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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.
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