Posted
at 06:56 on 28 January, 2013 UTC
Papua
New Guinea’s Attorney General says he wants to reactivate the death penalty despite
international data indicating that it does not help reduce crime rates.
The
death penalty is part of PNG’s criminal code but has been dormant for decades
due to what Kerenga Kua calls a lack of rules around execution procedure.
He
says the reactivated penalty would apply for a narrow band of crimes such as
treason, murder and piracy.
Mr
Kua is not bothered that a number of countries which have used the death
penalty have failed to improve law and order.
“It’s not the kind of situation
where you can have hard and fast statistics. It’s not the kind of subject which
renders itself to concise scientific data. We’ve had our law and order
situation for so long and none of the other attempts have succeeded in
curtailing the situation that we’ve had.”
PNG’s
Attorney General Kerenga Kua
Source: News
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