New Delhi: The problem is that the government is not ready to evolve, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday after the Centre said it may not be \"very feasible\" to give the option to death row convicts to choose lethal injection as a mode of execution.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a plea seeking removal of the present mode of execution of death row convicts by hanging from the statute.

Senior advocate Rishi Malhotra, who has filed the petition, said at least an option should be given to a condemned prisoner as to whether he wanted hanging or lethal injection as a mode of execution.

\"I will demonstrate that the best way is lethal injection because 49 out of 50 states in the USA have adopted lethal injection,\" Malhotra said.

He said execution by admi

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