The lone surviving gunman from a 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed more than 160 people was sentenced Thursday to death by hanging. A judge ruled that the crimes of Ajmal Kasab, the convicted Pakistani man who was one of 10 attackers, were so reprehensible that 'the court has no option except going with the death penalty.' Kasab, 22, who looked ill and spent most of the hearing with his head lowered and his right hand covering his face, cried a little but did not say anything after the sentence was read. The terrorists, who arrived in Mumbai by boat on Nov. 26, 2008, spent three days attacking a train station, two hotels, a Jewish center and a popular bar. Kasab and one accomplice were responsible for about 60 deaths, most of them at the city's busiest train station, where pictures and video showed him shooting indiscriminately at passengers in a waiting area. The judge, M.L. Tahaliyani, gave Kasab death sentences for four crimes and about two dozen lesser sentences ranging from life imprisonment to a month in jail. Kasab is unlikely to be put to death soon. His punishment has to be ratified by the Mumbai High Court, and he may appeal further to the Supreme Court and seek mercy from India's president. Executions are rare in India. In the past 10 years, the country has put to death just one person -- a convicted rapist and murderer was hanged in 2004 -- according to Human Rights Watch. In 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, 186 convicts were sentenced to death, but the authorities also commuted to life imprisonment the sentences of 881 people on death row, according to India's National Crime Records Bureau. Kasab was convicted on Monday, and Tahaliyani said then that the 2008 attack amounted to 'a brazen act of war against India.' Rejecting the defense lawyer's plea for leniency, Tahaliyani said it was unlikely that Kasab could be reformed or rehabilitated, given the dedication with which he had joined and served the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. In July 2009, Kasab said in court that he was guilty and wanted to be hanged. The trial continued, however, and he told the court in December that the Indian police had framed him. 