A death warrant was issued Tuesday for the four men convicted in the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus that galvanized
protests across
India and brought global attention to the country's sexual violence epidemic.
A New Delhi court scheduled the hangings for Jan. 22, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
The warrant has been anticipated since India’s
Supreme Court rejected one of the men's final review pleas last month.