CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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.
- According to the Criminal Procedure Code, hanging is the method of execution in the civilian court system.
Source: All India Radio