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Crowds react to India gang rape verdict

Nation Sep 13, 2013 12:48 PM EST

Dozens of protesters react to the Indian court’s verdict of the death penalty for the four men convicted for last year’s gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman in this raw video from the AP.

NPR’s Julie McCarthy reports that one of the four men “shrieked and slumped” upon hearing the verdict.

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