The Supreme Court on Wednesday objected to the central government's take on the suggestion that convicts on death row be given an option of lethal injection as a mode of execution. The top court was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking replacement of the age-old execution method of death-by-hanging with fatal injection. The plea stated that convicts should at least be given an option to choose between the two modes.

What did the Supreme Court say?

In its response to the PIL, the government said that providing an option to the convicted was "not feasible." Then a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta made an oral observation that the government was not ready to evolve with changes over time. "The problem is that the government is not ready to evolve...it is a very

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