C.Y.P.The petitioner challenged the method of Execution of Death sentence in India i.In a brief response made before a three judge Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A. We file our reply shortly. is not only barbaric, inhuman and cruel but also against the Resolutions adopted by the United Nations Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) which had categorically resolved by way of safeguard, viz “where capital punishment occurs it shall be carried out so as to inflict minimum possible suffering. It should produce immediate unconsciousness passing quickly into the death. In a brief order, the Bench had said the Legislature might think of other forms of execution keeping in view the dynamic progress in science as a convict in law has to face death sentence in peace and not in pain as it has been said since centuries that nothing can be equated to painless death.

During the last hearing the court had observed that the condemned prisoner should die with dignity in peace and not in pain and asked the Centre to consider enacting a legislation on other forms execution of death sentence of a convict than by “hanging”..”The ASG made this submission during the course of hearing of a PIL filed by advocate Rishi Malhotra seeking to stop death by hanging as it is a cruel form of death inflicting pain and injury and violated one’s right to die with dignity. Kanwilkar and D. Though the apex court has upheld the provision relating to hanging by death, the Bench noted that Indian Constitution was compassionate and recognises the principle of sanctity of life. Chandrachud, the Centre through additional solicitor general Pinky Anand said “execution by lethal injection is unworkable as often it fails.e.

He said the execution should be as quick and as simple as possible and free from anything that unnecessarily sharpens the poignancy of the prisoner’s apprehension. by hanging by neck till the prisoner is dead.M. He said Execution as contemplated u/s 354(5) Cr.Justice Chandrachud told the petitioner that there was lot of criticism in the US on use of lethal injection as it takes more than 45 minutes for the convict to die after a lot of suffering. On Tuesday, Plastic Injection Molding Machine the court granted four weeks time to the government to spell out its stand by an affidavit. It should be decent and should not involve mutilation of the body.New Delhi: Today, there is no other viable method of execution of a death row prisoner other than by hanging, the Centre informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The draft response is ready with the Union home ministry. He suggested execution by lethal injection or by gunshots