SC to Hear Plea on Replacing Hanging with Alternative Execution Methods on January 21

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The Supreme Court will hear a plea challenging the practice of hanging death row convicts on January 21 next year.

The petitioner argues for alternatives such as lethal injection or gas chamber, citing the 187th Law Commission report.

The Centre maintains that hanging is “quick and simple,” though it may review the matter through a proposed committee.

The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it would hear arguments on a plea to remove the current method of hanging death row inmates from the statute on January 21.

An appeal to abolish the current practice of hanging death row inmates and replace it with less painful procedures, including "intravenous lethal injection, shooting, electrocution or gas chamber", was being heard by a bench of Justices Vikram Nat