India hangs child murderer

A man convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl was hanged at dawn, in India’s first execution in nine years, as dozens of anti-death penalty protesters held a vigil outside the prison.

Dhananjaya Chatterjee, 39, was executed by an 84-year-old hangman yesterday in the courtyard of Alipora Correctional Home, Calcutta, where he has spent the last 13 years in solitary confinement.