印度法庭對四名強姦犯進行量刑

Prosecutors in India are calling for the death penalty to be handed down against four men found guilty of a fatal gang rape, as a judge considers their sentences.

A New Delhi judge on Tuesday found all four men guilty on 11 charges including gang rape and murder, after the rape and fatal assault of a 23-year-old woman with an iron bar on a bus last December. Her male companion was also beaten before both were thrown off the bus. The woman died of her injuries in a Singapore hospital, two weeks after the attack.

The men face the possibility of hanging. Protesters have gathered outside the courthouse this week to demand the death penalty, and scuffles broke out after the verdict on Tuesday.

The defense is vying for life imprisonment, noting that Indian law calls for execution only in very exceptional cases.印度檢方要求對判定致命輪姦罪名成立的四名男子判處死刑。目前一位法官正在考慮如何對被告量刑。

新德里一位法官星期二裁定四名男子的11項罪名成立，其中包括輪姦和謀殺。去年12月，一名23歲女子在公交車上遭到強姦及鐵棒襲擊。她的男性隨行人也遭到毆打，隨後兩人都被扔出車外。這名女子後來被送到新加坡的醫院治療，但案發兩星期後因傷重而死亡。

這四名男子可能被判絞刑。抗議者本星期聚集在法院外面，要求判處被告死刑。法庭星期二作出有罪判決後，民衆發生了肢體衝突。

辯方爭取對被告判處終身監禁，指出按照印度法律，死刑只適用於極其特殊的案例。