Papua New Guinea to abolish the death penalty

[Lourdes]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/papua-new-guinea-repeals-death-penalty-30-years-after-reintroduction

Papua New Guinea has repealed the death penalty 30 years after reintroducing it, with prime minister James Marape saying it was “not an effective deterrent to serious crime”.

Offences such as treason, piracy, murder – including sorcery related violence – and aggravated rape will now be punishable by life imprisonment without parole or parole after 30 years.

The last execution in Papua New Guinea took place in November 1954 in Port Moresby. The country abolished capital punishment in 1970 but reintroduced it in 1991, though there have been no executions since then.

[Lord Halifax]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/papua-new-guinea-repeals-death-penalty-30-years-after-reintroduction

Papua New Guinea has repealed the death penalty 30 years after reintroducing it, with prime minister James Marape saying it was “not an effective deterrent to serious crime”.

Offences such as treason, piracy, murder – including sorcery related violence – and aggravated rape will now be punishable by life imprisonment without parole or parole after 30 years.

The last execution in Papua New Guinea took place in November 1954 in Port Moresby. The country abolished capital punishment in 1970 but reintroduced it in 1991, though there have been no executions since then.

Hard to say whether it's an effective deterrent if they never execute anyone, with the rampant rape epidemic in PNG executing some of the worst offenders would at least be worth trying.

[Samof94]

Congrats. The death penalty is a barbaric punishment that is not a deterrent of any kind. Look at how fewer people are imprisoned by the Canadians than the Americans.

[CumbrianLefty]

That they "restored" it but never actually used it speaks volumes in itself I suppose.

[Samof94]

That they "restored" it but never actually used it speaks volumes in itself I suppose.

Very weird idea.

[Meclazine for Israel]

Are they abolishing the death penalty in the law of the cannibal tribes as well?