28 June 2004 :

Invoking the Ashokan edict that the state cannot kill an individual with vengeance, the Indian Law Commission recommended that authorities do away with hanging because found to be degrading and implement instead lethal injection. To implement the idea, the government would have to amend section 354 (5) of Penal Code, which stated that "when any person is sentenced to death, the sentence shall direct that he be hanged by the neck till he is dead."
The commission based its report on three criteria: One, death should be quick. Second, it should be painless. And finally, there should be least possible mutilation of the body. It found that in the case of hanging, death usually took place because of strangulation and not snapping of the spinal cord, as was often thought. Strangulation leads to gorging of the eyes. It also found that in India unlike England, which had long since abolished capital punishment, there was no post-mortem after hanging. Another reason for the commission suggesting abolition of death by hanging was the severe dearth of hangmen across the country.
According to the commission death by electric chair was cumbersome. A person often defecated and vomited. It was deemed unnecessarily to prolong the process that made death painful. Death by shooting or in a gas chamber were deemed to be too complicated.