Stakeholders urged to support plans to abolish death penalty
Written by Mafken FM Newsroom on 12 October 2022
The Prisons Care and Counseling Association –PRISCCA- is calling on various stakeholders to promote the abolishment of the death penalty as the current law in its state does not give credibility that death penalty deters crime more effectively than a prison term.
On Monday , Justice Minister Mulambo Haimbe announced that cabinet has approved the review of the penal code and the criminal procedure code which will lead to the abolishment of the death penalty.
Commenting on this development, PRISCCA Executive Director Godfrey Malembeka explained that about 106 countries have done away with death penalty for good and that countries that continue to execute it are a minority, Zambia inclusive.
Dr. Malembeka has stressed that death penalty violates the right to life as well as the right to be subjected to torture and other cruel punishment which undermines human dignity hence abolishing it will put Zambia’s human rights profile on top.
