Murderer Is First to Be Executed in Nine Years
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Dhananjaya Chatterjee, convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl, was hanged in India’s first execution in nine years. Chatterjee, 39, was executed at Calcutta’s Alipore Correctional Home, where he spent 13 years in solitary confinement.
Chatterjee denied raping and suffocating Hetal Parekh, 14, who lived in a Calcutta apartment building where Chatterjee worked as a security guard.
Outside the prison, about 70 protesters lighted candles and held anti-death-penalty banners.
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