Notably, Mahatma Gandhi would have likely opposed his killer's fate: "I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because he alone gives it".
August 01, 2008
Capital Punishment under the Indian Penal Code--An Introduction
The only method of Capital Punishment in India is death by hanging, a practice which violates the universally recognized right to be free from torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. In August 1983, the then-Attorney-General of India described hanging as the best method of execution based on the theory that the vascular, nervous and respiratory systems are extinguished in a single moment. However, experience shows that hanging can be a brutal and long ordeal. For example, Nathuram Godse, the man convicted of murdering Mahatma Gandhi, was suspended for fifteen minutes from the scaffold before finally dying.
