On Tuesday, the court granted four weeks time to the government to spell out its stand by an affidavit."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.M.C. It should be decent and should not involve mutilation of the body.. We file our reply shortly.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.Y. by hanging by neck till the prisoner is dead.P. The draft response is ready with the Union home ministry.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.In a brief response made before a three judge Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A. Chandrachud, the Centre through additional solicitor general Pinky Anand said "execution plastic injection mould by lethal injection is unworkable as often it fails. 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. 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". It should produce immediate unconsciousness passing quickly into the death
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