MAURITIUS. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES ABOLISHMENT OF DEATH PENALTY

the Mauritian branch of Amnesty International (AI) petitioned Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam demanding the scrapping of the death penalty in the island nation. The group also called for the ratification of the second protocol of the UN-initiated International Pact on Civil and Political Rights in a bid to better implement the abolition.
"The death penalty is an act of vengeance that cannot be inscribed in a process of justice," the rights body said in a statement.
"It (death penalty) is vain and not dissuasive," it said.