BAHRAIN. USE DEATH PENALTY AS DETERRENT SAY MPS

a call for Bahrain to enforce the death penalty went out from MPs and lawyers in the wake of the brutal shooting of a Bahraini man in Muharraq. The murder of Bahraini Mahdi Abdulrahman Mohammed, 38, followed the slaying of 37-year-old Bahraini Sana Al Jalahma by a Bangladeshi cook in Saar earlier in the month.
Legislators and lawyers said that if the death penalty was applied for perpetrators of brutal, premeditated murders, it could help reduce such crimes in the future.
"Imposing a death penalty on someone after it is proven they are guilty of a premeditated crime can be a great deterrent to others," MP and lawyer Ali Samaheeji said.
MP Shaikh Mohammed Khalid said although Bahrain's laws are very good, the tragedy is they are not enforced. "The death penalty should be imposed in cases such as these, but past experience shows us it probably won't," he said.
"There are some cases in which the death penalty has been handed out years ago, but the guilty parties are still in jail. If the sentence is passed, the execution should take place within a week or two."