PAPUA NEW GUINEA’S PLANS TO RESUME DEATH PENALTY ‘MAJOR SETBACK’ – UN - BUT THE UNITED STATES IS IN FULL PROCESS TO REMOVE THE DEATH PENALTY AND FOREWARD INTO SECURITY COUNSEL TO DO SO EXCEPT IN TIME OF WAR

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA'S PLANS TO RESUME DEATH PENALTY 'MAJOR SETBACK' –
UNNew York, May 17 2013 10:00AMThe United Nations human rights office
today expressed serious concern over Papua New Guinea's announcement
that it will resume the death penalty more than half a century since
it last carried out an execution, stressing this would represent "a
major setback" for the country.

"The High Commissioner has written to the Prime Minister stating her
concerns about the planned resumption of the death penalty, and is
calling on the Government to maintain its moratorium and subsequently
join the growing number of Member States that have abolished the
practice altogether, including 11 States in the Pacific," said Rupert
Colville, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Navi Pillay, during a
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briefing in Geneva.

Papua New Guinea has maintained a long-standing de facto moratorium on
the death penalty since 1954, which was subsequently passed into law
in 1970.

"Resuming the death penalty again would be a major setback, especially
after so many other States have subsequently abolished the death
penalty or adopted moratoriums," Mr. Colville said.

"While recognizing the challenge presented by the recent alarming rise
in violent crime in Papua New Guinea, including rape, torture and
murder, the use of capital punishment has never been proved to be a
more effective deterrent than other forms of punishment," he added.

In the same briefing, Mr. Colville also drew attention to the rise in
executions in Indonesia, where four men have been executed since the
country resumed the death penalty in March.

"It is a very unfortunate development as Indonesia was close to
establishing a moratorium on executions."

Indonesia had not carried out any executions since 2008. In January,
Ms. Pillay urged the authorities not to carry out any further
executions following the Government's announcement that it would
execute 10 convicted criminals.

Since 2007, the General Assembly has adopted four resolutions calling
on States to establish a moratorium on the use of the death penalty
with a view to its abolition. Today about 150 of the UN's 193 Member
States have either abolished the death penalty or no longer practice
it. May 17 2013 10:00AM
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