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Execution Methods in India: Hanging

In India, executions are primarily carried out by hanging, with the first execution post-independence being Nathuram Godse in 1949. The Supreme Court has stated that the death penalty should only be applied in the 'rarest rare cases,' with only two executions since 2010: Ajmal Kasab in 2012 and Afzal Guru in 2013. Additionally, the Army Act and Air Force Act allow for execution by shooting under specific circumstances, with provisions for the court martial to decide the method of execution.

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Execution Methods in India: Hanging

In India, executions are primarily carried out by hanging, with the first execution post-independence being Nathuram Godse in 1949. The Supreme Court has stated that the death penalty should only be applied in the 'rarest rare cases,' with only two executions since 2010: Ajmal Kasab in 2012 and Afzal Guru in 2013. Additionally, the Army Act and Air Force Act allow for execution by shooting under specific circumstances, with provisions for the court martial to decide the method of execution.

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METHODS OF EXECUTION IN INDIA:

Hanging:
All executions in India are carried out by hanging. In 1949, Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma
Gandhi, was the first to be executed by hanging in independent India. The Supreme Court of India has
suggested that the death penalty should only be given in the "rarest rare cases." Since 2010, two people
have been executed in India. Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist surviving from the attacks in Mumbai in
2008, was executed on 21 November 2012 in the central prison of Yerwada, Pune at 7:32 am IST. The
Supreme Court of India had previously rejected his mercy plea, which was then rejected by the President
of India. He was hanged a week later. Afzal Guru, a terrorist who was found guilty of conspiring during
the December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament, was executed by hanging in Tihar's prison in Delhi
on 9 February 2013. In the rarest of rare cases the code should render special reasons while sending a
person to the gallows.

Shooting:
The Army Act and Air Force Act also provide for the execution of the death sentence. Section 34 of the
Air Force Act, 1950 authorizes the court martial to impose the death sentence for the offenses mentioned
in section 34 (a) to (o) of The Air Force Act, 1950. Section 163 of the Act provides for the form of the
death penalty if: - "Upon awarding a death sentence, a court of war will, in its sole discretion, determine
that the offender will be killed by the neck to be hanged until he is dead or will be put to death by being
shot. "This stipulates that the prison prisoner of war must arrange the execution of the death sentence by
hanging it up or by being shot. Army Act, 1950, and the Navy Act, 1957 also provide similar provisions
as in The Air Force Act, 1950.(Harcourt 2008; Tushnet and Yackle 1997)

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