Rights group Amnesty International condemns PNG Revival of Death Penalty
Thursday 30 May 2013 @ 11.41 a.m. | Legal Research
Amnesty International says Papua New Guinea's move to revive the death penalty is "barbaric" and will not deter violent crime, according to an article reported in abc.net.au.
After a spate of horrific murders and gang-rapes, PNG's parliament yesterday voted to make murder, aggravated rape, robbery, treason and piracy punishable by death.
The sentence can be carried out in several ways, including hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, electrocution and "medical death by deprivation of oxygen" or poisonous gas.
Amnesty's Pacific researcher Kate Schuetze says the death penalty is a cruel form of punishment.
"It violates the right to life as well as freedom from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," she said.
"It doesn't matter if a person has been beheaded or burnt in a village or killed by the state. It is just as barbaric."
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