Nine months after the brutal gang rape and assault on a college student on a bus in Delhi, on 10 September 2013, a court in India delivered a guilty verdict.  It ruled that 4 of the 6 men involved were guilty of gang rape and murder, and pronounced that it was their intent to kill the victim.  The court pointed out that disemboweling her with an iron rod, throwing her off a moving bus and trying to run her over, were tantamount to intent to kill.

On Sept 13 the court sentenced the 4 men to death under Indian law that allows capital punishment to “the rarest of rare cases.” One other man involved, the one who used the iron rod and was the most brutal of the gang, was deemed a juvenile, and hence given a lenient sentence of 3 years in a reform home in accordance with Indian…