Several MPs have suggested that re-introducing capital...

Several MPs have suggested that re-introducing capital punishment is what is needed to effectively stop the wave of crime that has rolled over Namibia in recent years.
MP Nora Schimming-Chase said that reintroducing the death penalty should only be seen as a last-ditch solution, says opposition. In her contribution, Schimming-Chase cautioned against returning to the morbid pre-Independence practice of the hangman's noose.
The topic has, since CoD leader Ben Ulenga kicked it off a month ago, turned into one of the Assembly's most active recent debates.
Emerging from the apartheid system, where the death penalty was used to liquidate political opponents, they knew what they were doing, Schimming-Chase said.
"Before we even contemplate debating this issue, we should look at it as a last-ditch solution. If all else fails," the CoD MP cautioned.
As long as present shortcomings in the fight against crime were not solved, Schimming-Chase added, the death penalty "will not be a magic solution to inadequately trained officials, the death penalty will not replace the destroyed (Police) cars, it will not prevent dockets from disappearing. At best, it will hang those who are too poor to afford legal representation."