PAPUA NEW GUINEA: GOVERNMENT, 13 PEOPLE ON DEATH ROW WILL BE EXECUTED THIS YEAR

Secretary for the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Lawrence Kalinoe said the 13 people on death row in Papua New Guinea will be executed this year.
This comes after cabinet endorsed guidelines for the implementation of the death penalty.
Lawrence Kalinoe said the government is adamant on starting executions this year, and the 13 people had exhausted all their appeal and constitutional review processes.
The cabinet has approved guidelines for three modes of execution – hanging, lethal injection and firing squad – which will carried out at a facility to be built at Port Moresby’s Bomana Prison.
PNG’s government reactivated the death penalty in 2013 in reaction to a spate of violent crimes, drawing the ire of international human rights groups. But Kalinoe said critics are hiding behind human rights to criticize the government, and says the death penalty is implemented in sophisticated countries, such as the United States.