New Delhi, Apr 24 (UNI) The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that hanging was far safer and faster for execution than a lethal injection or a firing squad.
The Centre contended that hanging was a quick and certain means to execute the death penalty.
Besides, it also eliminated the possibility of a lingering death.
The GoI response came to a Public Interest Litigation filed by apex court counsel, Rishi Malhotra, seeking an alternative way of execution other than hanging.
Malhotra had filed the petition in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to provide an alternate method of execution other than hanging.
A copy of the counter-affidavit, filed by Union of India, was accessed by United News of India.
The PIL sought to declare that the right to die by a dignified procedure was a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
In its counter affidavit, the Government of India stated that hanging as a mode of execution was easy to assemble.
Malhotra submitted that hanging would unnecessarily sharpen the poignancy of the prisoner's execution.
UNI XC RP1559