No qualms for India's hangman before first job of executing rapists

Hangman Pawan Kumar talking to reporters at his residence in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Pawan Kumar feels zero remorse for the four men he is due to hang before the dawn on Feb 1 for the 2012 gang-rape and murder on a Delhi bus that appalled India and the world. - AFP

MEERUT (India): Pawan Kumar feels zero sympathy for the four men he is due to hang next month for a 2012 gang rape and murder that appalled India.

"The people who are going to die are like beasts, not humans," the third-generation hangman and father-of-seven told reporters in his tiny flat in the northern town of Meerut.