Lethal Injection is more humane

India and the USA are two countries in the world which have progresssive forms of government, but which still carry the controversial provision of capital punishment in their penal codes. In the recent years, most of the states in America which have this ultimate punishment in their penal codes have changed their method of execution to lethal injection. It has proved to be a simple and humane procedure compared to hanging, electrecution, gas chamber, and shooting.
As observed by the prisons in the states of Texas and Virginia, which carry out most of the executions in the U.S.A, lethal injection is a two-minute procedure. The inmate is strapped to a gurney and an injection needle is inserted into the vein of his or her forearrm by the prison doctor. The needle is attached to a tube which runs through an opaque screen. This tube brings the injection solutions from three large size syringes, kept behind the screen. An anonymous prison official presses the syringes in sequence, in order to carry out the punishment. The first syringe contains a general anesthetic which makes the inmate lose consciousness instantly. After a few seconds a muscle relaxant flows from the second syringe. The lungs collapse in no time and a faint noise can be heard as air exits through the nose. Now potasssium chloride, a routine laboratory chemical flows from the last syringe to stop the heart. The doctor comes forward and pronounces the inmate dead after checking the heart beat with the stethescope.
In India, it is especially easy to make the necessary amendments to the penal code (I.P.C) to change the method of execution from hanging to lethal injection, since that power rests with the central government. Let me hope that the concerned law makers and public in India would do so at an early date, if the capital punishment is prefered to remain in the Indian Penal Code.

Sincerely,
Hari Prasad, Washington.