Jesani, Amar2019-09-252019-09-252015-12-2819950975-5691http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/232172"On January 19, 1995 we learnt that Justices Kuldip Singh and B. L. Hansaria of the Supreme Court of India passed a judgement which forces doctors employed in prisons to participate in execution by hanging and thus violates medical ethics. This judgement was passed on a petition in the public interest against provisions, in the Punjab Jail Manual, on keeping the body of a condemned prisoner hanging for half an hour after falling from the scaffold. It was argued that such provision and practice were inhuman and barbarous"engWith permission of the license/copyright holdermedical ethicsexecutionprisonshangingPolitical ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsBioethicsMedical ethicsCommunity ethicsArticle