Burning in such cases was abolished by 30 Geo, 3, c. 48.
In practice, women were strangled before they were burnt this, however, de pended on the executioner.
In one numberorious case a woman was actually burnt alive for murdering her husband, the execu tioner being afraid to strangle her because he was caught by the fire.
What happened in the United States?
Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.
Naseem, Rakesh K. Khanna, P.K. Jain, Mukul Mudgal, Sanjay Parikh, P. Singh, P. Krishna Rao, B.K. Prasad, Ms. Malini Poduwal, Lalit Kumar Gupta, Manoj Swarup, Harish Salve, Rajiv Garg, Rajiv Shakdhar, N.D. Garg, L.K. Gupta Amicus curiae , M. Veerappa and Dalveer Bhandari for the Petitioners.
K. Jain, Rangarajan, Mrs. Urmila Sirur, Mohd.
K. Goel, Ajit Pudissery and Mrs. Jayamala Singh for the Interveners.
