INDIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 7-YR-OLD

an Additional District and Sessions court in New Delhi, India, sentenced to death Jiya Lal, an ice-cream vendor, for the rape and murder of a seven-year old girl on March 15, 2006. Accepting all the charges against the accused as true, the court sentenced the defendant to seven years rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping, life imprisonment for rape, two years for destruction of evidence and death by hanging for murder.