Executioner's return

Saturday, August 14, 2004

CALCUTTA, India -- A man convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl was hanged at dawn today in this Indian city, the first execution in nine years in a country where the death penalty is reserved for "the rarest of rare cases."

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