"I hanged those ten Nazis... and I am proud of it... I wasn't nervous.... A fellow can't afford to have nerves in this business.... I want to put in a good word for those G.I.s who helped me... they all did swell.... I am trying to get [them] a promotion.... The way I look at this hanging job, somebody has to do it. I got into it kind of by accident, years ago in the States.... Ten men in 103 minutes. That's fast work."- John C. Woods, the Hangman who carried out the Nuremberg Executions
We, the members of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, give our utmost
thanks to India’s Hangman, Pawan Kumar, for his willingness to execute the four
rapists who gangraped and murdered a student on a New Delhi Bus in 2012. He
reminds us of the Nuremberg Hangman, John C. woods.
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Hangman
who will execute four Indian gang rapists says 'they are like beasts, not
humans' as it emerges the men broke down and cried as they were measured for
the noose
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Hangman who will execute four Indian gang rapists says 'they are like beasts, not humans' as it emerges the men broke down and cried as they were measured for the noose
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Hangman Pawan Kumar feels no sympathy for the four men he
is set to execute
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They are convicted of gang raping and murdering
a student on New Delhi bus
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The four men reportedly broke down when their
necks were measured for noose
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The case shocked India and many are expected to
celebrate their deaths
By Sophie
Tanno For Mailonline and Afp
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Pawan Kumar feels zero sympathy for the four men he
is due to hang next month for a 2012 gang rape and murder that appalled India.
'The people who are going to die are like
beasts, not humans,' the
third-generation hangman and father-of-seven said in his tiny flat in the
northern town of Meerut.
'They are cruel people and that's why
they are going to lose their lives,' the 54-year-old said.
The group set to meet their demise before dawn on
February 1 - although it may be delayed - were convicted for a brutal crime
against Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old student.
They took turns to sexually assault the woman with
an iron rod on a bus as it meandered through the streets of Delhi at night.
They then dumped her on a road.
She died two weeks later in a Singapore hospital
from extensive internal injuries.
Angry demonstrations by tens of thousands of people
broke out across the vast South Asian nation, sparking soul-searching about the
plight of Indian women and leading to heavier sentences for sex crimes.
Five people were convicted. One, a minor, was found
guilty and spent three years in a juvenile detention centre. A sixth, the
ringleader of the group, died in jail before the case concluded - officially by
suicide.
For the remaining men, very few in India have
expressed misgivings about their fate.
Indeed, celebrations are expected to mark their
executions and Indian media have been gleefully reporting grisly details about
the preparations at Delhi's Tihar Jail.
The case caught international attention, sparked
weeks of national protests, prompted a change in laws around sex crimes, and
harsher penalties for attackers.
The men are currently being kept in separate cells
and are being monitored around the clock by CCTV to prevent them from killing
themselves.
Banana will be smeared on the execution ropes to
soften them and ensure a smooth and quick hanging, and the men reportedly broke
down when their necks were measured for the noose.
Almost 400 people are on death row in India, but
no-one has been executed since 2015.
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The
case sparked protests across India, garnered international media attention, and
prompted lawmakers to toughen penalties for sex crimes
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Kumar has been in high demand for media interviews,
and AFP's allotted 20 minutes ended abruptly when an alarm on his mobile phone
signalled time was up.
'I have people from India and abroad who
want to talk to me. You're not the only ones,' he said as his armed bodyguard looked on.
Kumar comes from generations of hangmen but this
will be his first execution.
His grandfather, who he fondly describes as his
'guru', hanged former prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassins and two men over
a notorious 1982 kidnap and murder.
Kumar complains that his stipend of 5,000 rupees
(US$70) a month is hardly enough to support his family, forcing him to look to
others, including the media, for 'help'.
But he says the adoration he expects to bask in
from India's 1.3 billion people after the coming executions will go some way to
compensate.
'People around me, including my family,
have always treated me well, but after this execution, I'm certain respect for
me will increase,' he said.
And he has no qualms about the job he does, which
he expects his sons to continue, nor about the effectiveness of capital
punishment.
'Crimes will decrease only when there are
executions. You give them life imprisonment, they appeal and they come out only
to commit more crimes,' he said.
'People like them should be executed so
others can learn a lesson that doing such things will give them an end like
this.'
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7925341/Hangman-execute-four-Indian-gang-rapists-says-like-beasts-not-humans.html
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Protesters in Kashmir
shout “Death to rapists” on 21 April 2018 (Photo: Yawar Nazir/Getty)
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OTHER LINKS:
CHIEF JUSTICE S.A BOBDE WON THE RAYNER
GODDARD ACT OF COURAGE AWARD [JANUARY 23, 2020]
http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/01/chief-justice-sa-bobde-won-rayner.html
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