New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would hear arguments on January 21 on a plea seeking removal of the present mode of execution of death row convicts by hanging from the statute.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing a plea seeking abolition of the present practice of executing a death row convict by hanging and replacing it with less painful methods such as “intravenous lethal injection, shooting, electrocution or gas chamber”.

Attorney General R Venkataramani requested the bench to keep the matter for hearing in January 2026. Show Full Article

“This has been hanging like hanging,” senior advocate Rishi Malhotra, who had filed the petition in 2017, said.

Venkataramani said, “Nobody is going to be hanged now. There is no worry at all”.

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