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Execution by lethal shot: SC says govt isn't 'evolving'
The New Indian Express
|October 16, 2025
THE Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that "the government is not ready to evolve" after it was informed of the Centre's opposition to using lethal injections as a mode of execution for death row convicts instead of the current method of hanging.
"The problem is that the government is not ready to evolve... it's a very old procedure, and things have changed over time," remarked a two-judge bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express.
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