India's top court dismisses appeal against death penalty over 2012 bus rape
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India's top court on Wednesday dismissed a petition against the death penalty for one of the men convicted of gang-raping and murdering a woman on a bus in New Delhi, saying they found no reason to review it.
Four men were convicted in Sept. 2013 of the "cold-blooded" murder of the young physiotherapy student woman, who was raped and tortured on a bus in New Delhi - a crime that triggered shockwaves across India and abroad.
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