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    Papua New Guinea premier seeking first executions in nation’s history, proposes firing squad

    Following a number of high-profile killings related to sorcery, Papua New Guinea’s government is pushing for the South Pacific nation’s first execution and says firing squads would be a humane and inexpensive method.

    Papua New Guinea’s laws allow for the death penalty and about 10 condemned inmates are currently in prison there, but the country was a colony of its near neighbor Australia when the last prisoner was executed — by hanging — in 1954.

    Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said on Wednesday that legislation will be introduced when Parliament resumes in two weeks that would allow the country to implement the death penalty.

    “Among the methods discussed include death by firing squad, which was considered more humane and inexpensive than other methods,” O’Neill said in a statement following a Cabinet meeting Wednesday. He said an “execution center” would be attached to a new prison to be built in a remote location.

    The prime minister’s office did not immediately explain on Thursday what the hurdles were to executing prisoners that the new legislation would overcome.

    The capital punishment push is part of a raft of tough new measures proposed by the government in response to an increase in high-profile violent crimes in the poor tribal nation of 7 million people, most of whom are subsistence farmers.

    In February, a mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses in the city of Mount Hagan. O’Neill, police and foreign diplomats condemned the killing.

    In July, police arrested 29 people accused of being part of a cannibal cult in Papua New Guinea’s jungle interior and charged them with the murders of seven suspected witch doctors.

    Papua New Guinea’s Criminal Code states that the death penalty “shall be carried out by hanging the offender by his neck until he is dead.” In 2009, Attorney-General Alan Marat told Parliament that death row prisoners were not being executed because the law did not detail procedures for carrying out capital punishment.

    Some Papua New Guinea analysts said part of the reason that the country has not executed prisoners is the tribal culture of payback. An executioner, or even lawmakers who enabled the execution, could be subjected to violent retribution from members of the executed prisoner’s clan.

    “That’s probably one element,” said Jenny Hayward-Jones, director of the Melanesia Program at the Sydney-based Lowy Institute foreign policy think-tank.

    “The official reason is that they’ve lacked the means to execute anyone since they introduced the law, but in reality I suspect it’s just too difficult for them to do, as are many things in PNG,” she added.

    When Papua New Guinea became independent in 1975, treason, piracy and attempted piracy were capital crimes. Willful murder was only added to the list in 1991.

    While Papua New Guinea shares a border with Indonesia, which uses firing squads for capital punishment, its largest foreign aid donor, Australia, opposes the death penalty.

    Much of the United States allows capital punishment, but rarely by firing squad. Oklahoma would allow death by firing squad only if electrocution and lethal injection were ever ruled unconstitutional. Utah ended death by firing squad in 2004, although inmates sentenced earlier than that have been able to choose that method. Firing squads are also used in the United Arab Emirates.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    proposes firing squad
    I'm sure we taught them better than that.
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    PNG says executions will go ahead this year

    Papua New Guinea's Justice Minister says the execution of 13 people currently on death row will happen this year, despite vocal opposition from human rights groups.

    Members of the country's Constitutional Law Reform Commission have recently returned from a tour to see how executions are carried out across the world.

    Jamie Tahana reports.

    Our correspondent in Papua New Guinea, Todagia Kelola, says that when Parliament resurrected the death penalty last year after a spate of sorcery-related killings and other violent crime, five methods of execution were written in: Lethal injection, electrocution, firing squad, deprivation of oxygen and hanging. He says the Constitutional Law Reform Commission has recently been touring countries including the United States, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to try and decide which one of those options is the best.

    "They basically went and checked out the death penalties and [saw] which one is the most appropriate one for Papua New Guinea to use."

    Todagia Kelola says the commission is working on recommendations for their preferred method, and those will be given to the National Executive Council for it to decide.

    "It just depends on cabinet. Once cabinet agrees on the method then they take it to parliament and parliament agrees and then a facility will be constructed for those who have been sentenced to death."

    The decision to reintroduce the death penalty was met with a wave of condemnation last year from groups such as Amnesty International, the European Union and the United Nations, and as recently as last week the law change was condemned by Human Rights Watch. The justice minister, Kerenga Kua, says the government is studying its options very carefully because it's dealing with human lives and wants to execute humanely. But he says the threat of execution is already having an effect on violent crime rates.

    "We have a serious law and order problem. So far, nobody has come up with an effective solution. My invitation to those critics is this: We have a problem that is internationally understood. Rather than criticise, give me a workable solution that I can adopt and then I can be encouraged to abandon this pathway we are taking.

    Kerenga Kua says the government can always readjust its position after seeing how effective the death penalty is.

    "As I have always said, nothing is cast in concrete and we can always adjust our position down the track after we see how effective or ineffective this process is. But we've got to be given the opportunity to try it out."

    Kerenga Kua says the 13 people currently sitting on death row have committed horrendous crimes, including one who slaughtered his family in a premeditated attack.

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/internation...head-this-year

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    I'm a bit puzzled on "oxygen deprivation". In such case, would they build a nitrogen chamber, as discussed by some guy that was curious about more humane methods? Or would some guard handcuff him and then strangle him with his hands, or...?

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    Lethal injection endorsed for death penalty in PNG

    A government committee has recommended that lethal injections be the method of executing prisoners sentenced to death in Papua New Guinea for their crimes.

    Recommendations made by an inter departmental government committee on the mechanism of implementing the death penalty in PNG are yet to be discussed within the National Executive Council.

    A member of the committee told PNG Edge News after careful consideration the committee had recommended that the death penalty be imposed through lethal injection.

    The member said that the recommendations include strategies, cost and where the death chambers should be located.

    “It is now up to the cabinet to decide whether they will say if this is the way to go for the death penalty,” he says.

    A highly placed source also confirmed recommendations were not discussed yesterday during an NEC meeting.

    It is understood once cabinet approves of the recommendations an amendment will be made to the National Court Act to reflect the method of death penalty.

    http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2014/03/l...enalty-in-png/
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    Papua New Guinea: Death penalty by lethal injection given go-ahead

    April 9, 2014: the National Executive Council has given the green light for work to proceed in establishing necessary policies to enable the implementation of the death penalty through lethal injection.

    On 7 March 2014, a government committee had recommended that lethal injections be the method of executing prisoners sentenced to death.

    The death chamber will be set up within the new maximum security prison which will be built at Bomana, on the outskirts of Port Moresby.

    Training for those who will be responsible for carrying out the death penalty will also be carried out by experts to be recruited by the government.

    A highly placed government officer said thirteen prisoners on death row would be given the chance to exhaust all avenues of appealing their sentences.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/#ixzz2yRFOfdBN
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    8 on death row in PNG, no decision yet on execution date: Corrrection Services Commissioner

    ONEPNG and THE NATIONAL

    Eight men on death row in Papua New Guinea – including one still at large after escaping from Bomana prison – will have to wait longer for a decision on their execution, it has been revealed.

    Correction Services Commissioner Michael Waipo told The National that while the legal requirements in relation to the execution of the death penalty in the country were in order, the capacities needed to execute it remained the problem.

    “It’s a long process in relation to death row,” Waipo said. “You need to have facilities, followed by the training of our staff who will be responsible (for carrying out the execution).

    “The law part of it is in order. It is only the infrastructure, the set-up and the capacity building of the staff to be able to deliver this arrangements which is lacking.”

    Waipo said it would require the assistance of those (from overseas institutions) who had the experience in carrying out the death penalty, especially the execution of people on death row.

    “Maybe they can guide us in the standard operating procedures,” he said. Waipo said the Correctional Services would be making a submission to Government on the matter which would include “the scope of work and the cost”.

    Waipo told The National that out of the 12 prisoners on death row in February 2015, two had died in custody and two were recently acquitted by the Supreme Court in Port Moresby last December.

    Father and son Selman and Misialis Amos were acquitted by the Supreme Court on Dec 11 of the murder charges against them, citing errors by the trial judge who convicted them.

    Both have since rejoined their families in ENB and New Ireland.

    The two who died while in custody were:

    *Gregory Kiapkot, 41, from Lokanai in New Ireland, convicted of murder and sea piracy; and

    *Martin Pigit, 39, from New Ireland, also convicted of murder and sea piracy. The prisoner who escaped from Bomana about three years ago and still on the run is Ambrose Lati, 49, from Wabag. He was convicted in 2009 for murder.

    The remaining seven on death row are either at the Kerevat prison in ENB or at Bomana in Port Moresby. They are:

    Peter Taul, 39, from Pilapila, ENB

    *Tobung Paraide, 43, from Pilapila, ENB;

    *Bochea Agena, 44, from the Duke of York Islands, ENB;

    *Kenny Wesley, 38, from the Duke of York Islands, ENB;

    *Sedoki Lota, 21, convicted of wilful murder in 2007 and detained at Bomana Prison.

    *Ben Simakot, 30, from Yangkok in West Sepik, convicted for murder and detained at Bomana Prison;

    *Mark Poroli, 33, from Koroba in Southern Highlands, convicted for wilful murder and detained at Bomana Prison.

    https://www.onepng.com/2018/02/8-on-...ision-yet.html

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    Eight sentenced to death, 88 get life in prison over PNG sorcery murders

    By Catherine Graue
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    Eight men have been sentenced to death in Papua New Guinea for their involvement in the brutal killing of seven people, including two children, who they thought were conducting sorcery.

    The men were among 97 found guilty in February of murdering five men and two boys, aged three and five, by slashing them with machetes.

    They were part of a group of about 180 men and youths who had marched to a nearby village in PNG's Madang Province, searching for people they claimed had committed sorcery.

    Of the remaining 89 men, one died recently while the other 88 were sentenced to life in prison.

    Local Madang MP Bryan Kramer said the decision by PNG National Court judge David Cannings to impose the death penalty was intended to send a strong message.

    "Justice Cannings is a renowned human rights advocate so it was, to some degree, some surprise that he'd given down this decision," Mr Kramer told the ABC's Pacific Beat program.

    "But given the viciousness of this crime, I'm probably of the view that he did so with a basis of making a statement, to those involved in such heinous crimes, where innocent children were killed."

    Professor Philip Gibbs, who is a priest lecturing at PNG's Catholic Divine Word University and has researched sorcery-related violence, said he was also surprised by the judgement.

    "I would hope that it would have some deterrent effect," he said.

    While the laws haven't been used in more than 50 years, the Government reinstated capital punishment mainly in response to the outcry over sorcery-related violence and violent attacks on women.

    Human rights advocates have been voicing concern that the violence is escalating, with people murdered or tortured by their communities after being accused of "sanguma" — a local word that refers to black magic or sorcery.

    While international human rights organisations and local churches have welcomed the PNG Government's rhetoric to crack down on the violence, they don't support the use of the death penalty.

    "From the perspective of someone in the church, I don't agree with the death penalty," Father Gibbs said.

    "But this is the Papua New Guinea Government's effort to really show they're serious about sorcery-accusation related violence and killing."

    More recently, moves by the Government have suggested it is backing away from the tough stance.

    Father Gibbs' has voiced some concern that the death sentences may still not act as a deterrent.

    "That area where this has happened it is full of cult activity, there was 'Black Jesus' up there, there was the beheading of a teacher recently," Father Gibbs said.

    But Mr Kramer said he thinks it will send a strong message.

    "There are some areas in Madang with a history of killings … youth now represent 50 per cent of our population are now involved in home brew, marijuana, and are now taking law into their own hands, due to the poor resourcing of policing," Mr Kramer said.

    "I am using this judgement to go into communities to make it clear to those, especially in that area where there's been vicious killings, beheadings, decapitations, that they will be ultimately hunted down by the law enforcement and may be subjected to similar rulings where the killings are similar in nature."

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-2...tence/10038442

    Black Jesus was the name of a Cult leader that was killed by police in 2013.

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    Father gets death penalty for murder of boy, 14

    The National

    A father of three has been given the death penalty after being convicted of killing a 14-year-old boy in a revenge attack in West New Britain three years ago.

    In the the National Court in Kimbe, acting Judge Nicholas Miviri described the killing by Wesley Yanduo as “merciless and horrific”.

    “West New Britain and Kimbe is riddled with killings as if there is no rule of law and sanctity of lives even though it is predominately a Christian province,” Miviri said.

    “The court will not downplay nor will it pass this as an ordinary case. Rather, the act and circumstances are extreme and call for a stern deterrent and decisive sentence that is enough.

    “It is a brutal killing committed in cold blood upon an innocent, defenceless 14-year-old boy. A very sharp knife was used and this is not the first time the veracity of this weapon was used against a helpless young boy.”

    The court on Oct 18 had convicted Yanduo, from Kubalia, East Sepik, for the wilful murder of Naegel John Las at Galai Oil Palm settlement on Dec 6, 2015.

    Yanduo first cut the victim on the wrist then continued cutting him on the head, causing him to bleed to death.

    The court heard that Yanduo attacked Las in retaliation to the fatal assault of a youth by the name of Issac Vitalis, who was attacked by boys from Section 16.

    Afterwards, a meeting was held for compensation to be paid to the relatives, but when the compensation was not paid, a fight started.

    Las and others were escaping when he was ambushed by Yanduo, who was hiding in bushes.

    “It would appear that he laid in ambush ready as they came,” Justice Miviri said. “He (Yanduo) tried correcting another criminal wrong with another authored by him. Two wrongs do not make a right.”

    https://www.thenational.com.pg/fathe...der-of-boy-14/

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