Centre disfavours lethal injection as mode of execution: Supreme Court

The problem is that the government is not ready to evolve, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) 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.