INDIA: HC UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE TO MAN CONVICTED OF RAPE, MURDER

a division bench of the Madras High Court in India, comprising justices C Nagappan and M Sathyanarayanan, upheld the death penalty of B Kumar, 34, a mason. Kumar was sentenced to death by a Nagapattinam sessions court on December 8, 2010, for raping a minor girl and murdering her younger brother with a sickle in Nagapattinam district on October 4, 2002.