A draft law presented by 7 MPs to Parliament calling...

A draft law presented by 7 MPs to Parliament calling for the abolishment of capital punishment was met with mixed reviews from academics. The draft law, submitted by MPs Nayla Mouawad, Mosbah Ahdab, Bassem al-Sabeh, Nabil de Freij, Henry al -Helo, Marwan Fares, and Salah Honein, suggested that the death penalty be replaced with lifetime imprisonment with hard labor. Tripoli MP Ahdab said there are other ways to punish someone than by capital punishment.
"It is not up to us to take a person's life," he said. "When a society takes someone's life, it is acting like the criminal."
Ahdab said that "the life sentence" suggested in the draft law "is not subject to personal pardon, thus the criminal will not be able to get out of jail."
"We cannot cure killing by killing' it is immoral," said Kesrouan MP Neamatallah Abi Nasr. "Life is precious, and one cannot weigh in an argument whether to take life."