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A policemen closes the gate of a court after a van, carrying the four men accused in the rape case enters. Saurabh Das/AP

Four men convicted in India gang rape case

The four may, who now face the possibility of hanging, are expected to be sentenced tomorrow.

AN INDIAN COURT has convicted four men in the December gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi.

Sentences for the men, who were convicted today and face the possibility of hanging, are expected to be handed down tomorrow.

Last month, a juvenile court handed down the first conviction in the fatal rape of the young woman sentencing a teen to three years in a reform home.

The brutal rape set off waves of protest in India, giving voice to years of anger over the treatment of women and a silent epidemic of sexual harassment and rape.

Related: Teen given 3 years for gang rape and murder of student on New Delhi bus>

More: India gang-rape victim’s companion to testify today>

Read: Nearly a quarter of Asian Pacific men have raped a woman>

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    Mute Gary Cairnduff
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    Sep 10th 2013, 8:28 AM

    Hang them by the balls.

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    Mute Jane Travers
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    Sep 10th 2013, 9:06 AM

    I find myself actually in favour of the death penalty for the first time in my life. I hope they feel a fraction of the pain and terror that young woman felt.

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    Mute Liam
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    Sep 10th 2013, 8:53 AM

    They should get life in prison instead, hanging is too quick of a punishment for these rodents, let the reality of their situation sink in with the certainty that they will never escape from it.

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    Mute Sexy Taoiseach
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    Sep 10th 2013, 8:27 AM

    They deserve everything they get. Hanging seems a bit too lenanant.

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    Mute Richie Rodgers
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    Sep 10th 2013, 10:43 AM

    Sexy
    What does lenanent mean?

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    Mute Cpm
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    Sep 10th 2013, 11:19 AM

    le na nent do doo de do do

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    Mute Jer Lonergen
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    Sep 10th 2013, 2:27 PM

    He means hang Brian Lenihan.

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    Mute Richard O'Gorman
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    Sep 10th 2013, 9:15 AM

    This is India, not Ireland, let them get on with it. We often don’t even bang up murderers and Paedo priests.

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    Mute Stacey Boland
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    Sep 10th 2013, 9:31 AM

    Make them wear the same clothes their victim was wearing when they raped her, then release them to the general population of sex starved men in prison and hopefully they will experience what they put the poor girl through.

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    Mute Paul Brophy
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    Sep 10th 2013, 10:04 AM

    I don’t think the death penalty should ever be an option. Except for these animals. Lets hope the calculations of weight/distance dropped for instant death has an error and they feel it. Absolute vermin.

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    Mute Anna Marie Dowdican
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    Sep 10th 2013, 10:31 AM

    The ‘juvenile’ that was already sentenced was felt to be by the victims family the most brutal of the woman’s attackers.He was 17 at the time of the attack, 18 at sentencing and was given three years in a reform home..A certain injustice continues..Awful crime and the punishment should be severe all around.A tackling of the ‘women obey your men because we are superior’ attitude is needed.It is the foundation stone of the attitudes that allow for this to happen.Anyways my point before i rambled was 3 years and possible death penalty for these..unjust.

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    Sep 10th 2013, 10:32 AM

    At least in India justice will prevail, not like in this crime ridden lawless country.

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    Mute Maggie Elizabeth Walsh
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    Sep 10th 2013, 11:24 AM

    Death is too good for them, I would rather see them live but give them hard labour for the rest of their lives, make them suffer just an ounce of the torture they put their victim through.

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    Mute Bad Lieutenant
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    Sep 10th 2013, 10:45 AM

    What a smelly, horrible country.

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    Mute Jer Lonergen
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    Sep 10th 2013, 2:30 PM

    In Ireland they’d all be out on bail.

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    Sep 10th 2013, 9:38 AM

    in before lynchmob mentality

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    Mute Mary Mc Carthy
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    Sep 10th 2013, 10:45 AM

    Hang them !

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    Sep 10th 2013, 1:22 PM

    I’d take death over life in an Indian prison any day. Those places are he’ll on earth.

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