[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

May 16



INDIA:

7 given death penalty in 2012 'witch' lynching case


7 persons, including a woman, were today sentenced to death and 6 others to 
life imprisonment by a court in Ghatal for the 2012 lynching of 3 women of a 
single family on suspicion of their being witches at a village in West 
Midnapore district.

1 more person was sent to 9 years in jail by the court of SDJM Deboprosad Nath 
in the sensational killing of the 3 women at Dubrajpur village under Daspur 
police station area in June, 2012. FIRs were filed against a total 49 persons, 
all residents of the same village which the slain women belonged to for 
assaulting and torturing the victims to death after suspecting them to be 
witches.

(source: Press Trust of India)