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Apex court dismisses plea to replace hanging with less painful execution methods

The Supreme Court dismissed a plea seeking to abolish hanging as the method of executing death row convicts and replace it with alternatives such as lethal injection. The court said the Centre could review the existing method through an expert body

18 Aug 2026 2:23 pm