Execution By Hanging Most Viable, Lethal Injection Not Workable: Centre To SC
7 years, 2 months ago

Execution By Hanging Most Viable, Lethal Injection Not Workable: Centre To SC

Live Law  

The Centre today told the Supreme Court that executing a death row convict by hanging was the most viable method as lethal injection “was not workable”.But this was only a mere oral remark by Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand who represented the Centre during the hearing of a plea filed by Rishi Malhotra, a Supreme Court advocate, seeking abolition of hanging by the neck.He. The Centre today told the Supreme Court that executing a death row convict by hanging was the most viable method as lethal injection “was not workable”. But this was only a mere oral remark by Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand who represented the Centre during the hearing of a plea filed by Rishi Malhotra, a Supreme Court advocate, seeking abolition of hanging by the neck. It said dying with dignity is part of right to life and the present practice of executing a death row convict by hanging involves prolonged pain and suffering.

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Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods

Hindustan Times  

HOUSTON — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. A look at US execution methods Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, …

Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Here’s a …

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice

Daily Mail  

After languishing on Death Row for almost 25 years, convicted murderer Richard Moore now faces an agonising decision – choosing how he will be executed. Richard Moore, 59, a South Carolina Death Row inmate, has the choice to either die by the firing squad, electric chair or lethal injection Moore has now been on South Carolina's Death Row for 23 …

SC mulls panel to assess proportionality of death penalty by hanging
2 years ago

SC mulls panel to assess proportionality of death penalty by hanging

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it may consider setting up of a committee of experts to examine whether execution of death row convicts by hanging was proportionate and less painful and sought "better data" from the Centre on issues pertaining to the mode of execution. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S …

Death Penalty By Hanging Barbaric? Supreme Court To Examine Less Painful Alternatives
2 years ago

Death Penalty By Hanging Barbaric? Supreme Court To Examine Less Painful Alternatives

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its inclination towards constituting an expert committee to determine if the execution of death penalty through hanging was proportionate. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha was hearing a PIL seeking to abolish the present practice of executing a death row convict by hanging which involves “prolonged pain. A bench …

EXPLAINER: Why are states having lethal injection problems?
2 years, 4 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why are states having lethal injection problems?

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A scheduled execution in Alabama that was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn’t find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into is the latest in a long history of problems with lethal injections since Texas became the first state to use the execution method in 1982, including delays in finding usable veins. Numerous other …

Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution
2 years, 11 months ago

Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate set to die either by a firing squad or in the electric chair later this month is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution until judges can determine if either method is cruel and unusual punishment. Moore’s lawyers said judges need to review South Carolina’s new firing squad rules to see …

Oklahoma Executes Man Days Before A Trial On Whether Its Lethal Injection Method Is Legal
3 years, 1 month ago

Oklahoma Executes Man Days Before A Trial On Whether Its Lethal Injection Method Is Legal

Huff Post  

The state of Oklahoma executed Gilbert Postelle, 35, on Thursday. Gilbert Postelle's clemency application The state of Oklahoma on Thursday executed Gilbert Postelle, 35, a man with an IQ that approaches an intellectual disability who suffered from neglect and drug addiction as a child. Postelle is the fourth person killed by the state in recent months amid a lawsuit over …

With Lethal Injections Harder To Come By, Some States Are Turning To Firing Squads
3 years, 10 months ago

With Lethal Injections Harder To Come By, Some States Are Turning To Firing Squads

NPR  

With Lethal Injections Harder To Come By, Some States Are Turning To Firing Squads Enlarge this image toggle caption Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP South Carolina's Republican governor signed a bill into law last week that sounds like it's from a different century: Death row inmates must choose whether …

Ultimate choice: Tennessee inmates wrestle with how to die
5 years, 1 month ago

Ultimate choice: Tennessee inmates wrestle with how to die

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After more than three decades on death row, Don Johnson weighed the options for his own demise: He could keep a promise to his daughter that he wouldn’t die in the electric chair. “They know one is going to knock them out,” said Dan Mann, a talent booking agent who has been protesting the death penalty in …

Death row inmate requests execution by firing squad instead of lethal injection
5 years, 2 months ago

Death row inmate requests execution by firing squad instead of lethal injection

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A man on death …

Hanging best option in death sentence: Centre to Supreme Court
6 years, 11 months ago

Hanging best option in death sentence: Centre to Supreme Court

Hindustan Times  

Hanging was a safe and quick method to carry out a death sentence, the Centre has told Supreme Court in response to a public interest litigation that says the practice violates the right to die with dignity. Making the execution “overly comfortable” would bring down the deterrent effect of a death sentence, the home ministry has said in an affidavit …

Centre against use of injection for executions
7 years, 2 months ago

Centre against use of injection for executions

Deccan Chronicle  

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. Chandrachud, the Centre through additional solicitor general Pinky Anand said “execution by lethal injection is unworkable as often it fails. During the last hearing the court had observed that the condemned prisoner …

Is death by hanging dignified? While Supreme Court waits for govt's reply, a look at options
7 years, 5 months ago

Is death by hanging dignified? While Supreme Court waits for govt's reply, a look at options

India Today  

The Supreme Court has made an important observation while issuing a notice to the Centre that a convict is entitled to die "in peace and not in pain". The PIL was filed by a Supreme Court lawyer Rishi Malhotra, who has challenged Section 354 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which provides for the method of execution of death sentence …

‘Legislature Can Think Of Other Modes Of Execution’: SC Issues Notice On PIL Against Death By Hanging [Read Petition]
7 years, 5 months ago

‘Legislature Can Think Of Other Modes Of Execution’: SC Issues Notice On PIL Against Death By Hanging [Read Petition]

Live Law  

Acting on a plea filed by a lawyer, the Supreme Court today observed that the legislature can consider amending the CrPC to change the mode of execution of a death row convict from the present painful hanging to some other less painful method. Holding that “dying with dignity is part of right of life”, a PIL has been filed in …

'Find replacement for death by hanging': Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, says think of other modes to execute convicts
7 years, 5 months ago

'Find replacement for death by hanging': Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, says think of other modes to execute convicts

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond to a plea challenging the legal provision that a death row convict would be hanged to death. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond to a plea challenging the legal provision that a death row convict would be hanged to death. With the invention of …

PIL In SC Seeks Painless End for Death Convicts; Suggests Shooting, Injection Or Electrocution Instead Of Hanging [Read Petition]
7 years, 6 months ago

PIL In SC Seeks Painless End for Death Convicts; Suggests Shooting, Injection Or Electrocution Instead Of Hanging [Read Petition]

Live Law  

Holding that “dying with dignity is part of right of life”, a first-of-its-kind PIL has been filed in Supreme Court for abolishing the present practice of executing a death row convict by hanging which involves “prolonged pain and suffering” and to replace it with intravenous lethal injection, shooting, electrocution or gas chamber in which death is just a matter of …

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?
7 years, 11 months ago

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?

New Indian Express  

Clayton D Lockett: An hour before the execution began on April 29, 2014, the governor was notified that the executioner was having problems finding a usable vein, but she did not intervene. Ten minutes after the administration of the first drug, a sedative, the physician supervising the process announced that the inmate was unconscious, and therefore ready to receive the …

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?
7 years, 11 months ago

Lethal injection: A painless execution or a deadly weapon?

New Indian Express  

Clayton D Lockett: An hour before the execution began on April 29, 2014, the governor was notified that the executioner was having problems finding a usable vein, but she did not intervene. Ten minutes after the administration of the first drug, a sedative, the physician supervising the process announced that the inmate was unconscious, and therefore ready to receive the …

Process to speed up execution is need of the hour
8 years ago

Process to speed up execution is need of the hour

Deccan Chronicle  

The proposed recommendation of the National Law Commission for abolition of death penalty, prima facie, appears to be based on three facts. Thirdly, in our country the death penalty has not served as a deterrent measure as the heinous crime falling in the category of “rarest of rare” cases are committed frequently. I have come across the cases wherein the …

Some lethal injection problems in US executions
8 years, 3 months ago

Some lethal injection problems in US executions

Associated Press  

Since Texas became the first state to use lethal injection as its execution method on Dec. 7, 1982, some problems have been reported during the process nationwide. Texas inmate Raymond Landry was pronounced dead 40 minutes after being strapped to the execution gurney and 24 minutes after the drugs started flowing into his arms. Indiana inmate Tommie J. Smith’s lethal …

High court finds lethal injections are humane
16 years, 11 months ago

High court finds lethal injections are humane

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer A national drive to halt the death penalty met defeat at the Supreme Court on Wednesday when the justices ruled that lethal injections, if properly administered, were a humane means of executing a condemned prisoner. “Some risk of pain is inherent in any method of execution -- no matter how humane -- if only from the prospect …

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