The Statesman, India :
The four men, convicted in the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, were hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in Delhi in the wee hours of Friday morning.
The convicts – Mukesh Kumar Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta – were taken to the gallows a day after the Patiala House Court dismissed all their petitions and stated that their execution will take place as scheduled.
After a 45-minute hearing, a special three-judge bench of the Supreme Court in the wee hours of Friday rejected the plea of death row convict Pawan Gupta challenging the rejection of second mercy plea by the President Ram Nath Kovind and seeking stay on the death sentence.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had also trashed the plea of all death row convicts at around 11 pm on Thursday. The entire legal process in the execution of the death sentence was completed and the hanging of the accused was confirmed at 5.30 am.
The four men, convicted in the brutal gang-rape and murder of a Delhi medical student in 2012, were hanged to death at the Tihar Central Jail in Delhi in the wee hours of Friday morning.
The convicts – Mukesh Kumar Singh, Vinay Kumar Sharma and Pawan Kumar Gupta – were taken to the gallows a day after the Patiala House Court dismissed all their petitions and stated that their execution will take place as scheduled.
After a 45-minute hearing, a special three-judge bench of the Supreme Court in the wee hours of Friday rejected the plea of death row convict Pawan Gupta challenging the rejection of second mercy plea by the President Ram Nath Kovind and seeking stay on the death sentence.
Earlier, the Delhi High Court had also trashed the plea of all death row convicts at around 11 pm on Thursday. The entire legal process in the execution of the death sentence was completed and the hanging of the accused was confirmed at 5.30 am.
