CAPITAL PUNISHMENT-A FUNDAMENTAL WRONG OR RIGHT

Author – Krishnapriya P. D., Student at GOVERNMENT LAW COLLEGE THRISSUR

Best Citation – Krishnapriya P. D., CAPITAL PUNISHMENT-A FUNDAMENTAL WRONG OR RIGHT, ILE MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, 1 (1) of 2023, Pg. 01-05, ISBN – 978-81-961097-5-2.

ABSTRACT

The Supreme Court bench headed by C.J.I. D.Y.Chandrachud asked the center to defend the law that allows “Hanging by neck “as a mode of execution. There have been serious debates over decades on whether there can be a more dignified way of execution. In India, the air force act 1950, the army act 1950 and the navy act 1957 provide for an offender to be hanged by death until he be dead or to suffer death by being shot to death. The center had the stand that death by hanging is the only viable option to execute a death warrant. Death penalty has always served as a controversial topic.