In December 2012, protests broke out across India after news of a horrific gang rape exploded into global view. The crime—the gang rape of 23-year-old physiotherapy student, Jyoti Singh, committed by six men on a bus in the capital territory of Delhi—was so brutal that it shocked the world and jolted the Indian legal system into reconsidering its protections for women.

The execution of a prisoner on death-row usually results in the beginning of a new trauma for the family members they leave behind.

Learn about a place that profiles the people executed for crimes on a given day.