Think about methods of execution other than hanging, SC tells Centre
“A person should die in peace, not in pain. For, it has been said since centuries that nothing can be equated with painless death,” a bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said while hearing a Public Interest Litigation.
The Court sought the assistance of Attorney General KK Venugopal in the matter and issued a notice to the Centre.
It noted in its order that the “legislature can think of some other modes by which a convict has to meet his death” in view of the invention of some other less painful ways of carrying out execution.
The bench said it was mindful of the fact that almost 30 years ago, the apex court upheld the constitutional validity of hanging by neck till the convict is dead but the Indian Constitution has always been seen as a dynamic and ever-evolving document.
“Something which was valid at one point of time may become invalid later,” it said.
The PIL, filed by advocate Rishi Malhotra, challenged the constitutional validity of a provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure, which lays down hanging by neck as the only method to execute a person on death row.
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