India still favours death by hanging

India’s top court has refused to replace hanging with lethal injection as the country’s sole method of execution, saying there is no evidence it is less painful than other ways.

The ruling rejected a petition by rights activist Ashok Kumar Walia, who said hanging was a “cruel and painful” method of execution and should be replaced by lethal injection, which is used in more than 30 US states as a primary method of execution.