Editing Hanging (section)

===India===
{{Main|Capital punishment in India}}
[[File:The hanging of two participants in the Indian Rebellion of 1857..jpg|thumb|The hanging of two participants in British India ([[Indian Rebellion of 1857]])]]
Hanging was introduced by the British. All executions in India since independence have been carried out by hanging, although the law provides for military executions to be carried out by firing squad. In 1949, [[Nathuram Godse]], who had been sentenced to death for the assassination of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], was the first person to be executed by hanging in independent India.<ref name="TIE">{{cite web|title=Yakub Memon first to be hanged in Maharashtra after Ajmal Kasab|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/yakub-memon-first-to-be-hanged-in-maharashtra-after-ajmal-kasab/|website=The Indian Express|access-date=March 12, 2018|date=2015-07-30|archive-date=3 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203233129/http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/yakub-memon-first-to-be-hanged-in-maharashtra-after-ajmal-kasab/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Supreme Court of India]] has suggested that [[capital punishment]] should be given only in the "rarest of rare cases".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=03&filename=8383&filetype=html |last1=Sakhrani |first1=Monica |last2=Adenwalla |first2=Maharukh |work=Economic & Political Weekly |title=Death Penalty – Case for Its Abolition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050817155243/http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=03&filename=8383&filetype=html |archive-date=17 August 2005}}</ref>

Since 2001, eight people have been executed in India.
* [[Dhananjoy Chatterjee]], convicted for rape and murder in 1991, was executed on 14 August 2004 in [[Alipore Jail]], Kolkata.
* [[Ajmal Kasab]], the lone surviving terrorist of the [[2008 Mumbai attacks]], was executed on 21 November 2012 in [[Yerwada Central Jail]], Pune. The Supreme Court of India had previously rejected his mercy plea, which was then rejected by the President of India. He was hanged one week later.
* [[Afzal Guru]], a terrorist found guilty of conspiracy in the [[2001 Indian Parliament attack|December 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament]], was executed by hanging in [[Tihar Jail]], Delhi on 9 February 2013.
* [[Yakub Memon]] was convicted over his involvement in the [[1993 Bombay bombings]] by the Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected and he was finally executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 in Nagpur jail.
* In March 2020, [[2012 Delhi gang rape|four prisoners convicted of rape and murder]] were executed by hanging in Tihar Jail.<ref>{{cite news |last1=hanged to death |first1=Nirbhaya convicts |title=Four Nirbhaya case convicts hanged to death in Tihar jail |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nirbhaya-case-four-convicts-hanged-to-death-in-tihar-jail/article31114864.ece |website=The Hindu |date=20 March 2020 |publisher=The Hindu Newspaper |access-date=20 March 2020 |archive-date=20 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320010211/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nirbhaya-case-four-convicts-hanged-to-death-in-tihar-jail/article31114864.ece |url-status=live }}</ref>