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mmihavani
mmihavani
9 years ago

Washington – A death-row inmate in Texas who confessed to murdering three elderly people with a screwdriver for just $100 was executed on Wednesday, US prison authorities said. Arnold Prieto, 41, was declared dead at 18:31 at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, said Texas department of criminal justice spokesperson Jason Clark. Prieto’s is the fourth US execution this year. He was sentenced to death for the triple murder committed during a 1993 robbery when he and two brothers were invited to the siblings’ great-aunt and great-uncle’s house for breakfast, and attacked the elderly couple. The 72-year-old man and his 62-year-old… Read more »

Imraan Sadick
9 years ago

What does the Bible say about murder,that’s a question you supposed to ask yourself
God did not forbid to execute a murderer hence do not lobby Malawi to abolish God’s will? ,don’t go against Allah’s will unless if you’re atheist
you’re in no position to tell us what to do since you stopped giving us your conditional aid

Mmihavani
Mmihavani
9 years ago

Royal Family: Will UK join the modern world in abolishing it? In this era when everybody is treated as equal why should UK treat some few individuals as special as God simply because of their birth? Why should they be de-facto kings and queens? Nobody decides where to be born so do not treat others as commoners and others special. I implore UK to join the modern world by abolishing the royal family. Let those boys work like anybody else.

Ababa Thamangiwa.
Ababa Thamangiwa.
9 years ago

Micheal Nevin, you are absolutely right that there so many decisions/policies that govern implement that are not necessarily popular with the ppo but they are implemented stil for the good of the people. On death penalty, you and your government must accept that as much as you would want us to abolish capital panishment, the reality is such pronouncements will send a wrong signal altogether to the populace which is largely illiterate. So while abolishing it would be a popular thing with you it will grossly undermine security of the country. in this case government should maintain the unpopular move… Read more »

Ababa Thamangiwa.
Ababa Thamangiwa.
9 years ago

Micheal Nevin, you are absolutely right that there so many decisions/policies that govern implement that are not necessarily popular with the ppo but they are implemented stil for the good of the people. On death penalty, you and your government must accept that as much as you would want us to abolish capital panishment, the reality is such pronouncements will send a wrong signal altogether to the populace which is largely illiterate. So while abolishing it would be a popular thing with you it will grossly undermine security of the country. in this case government should maintain the unpopular move… Read more »

Nebraska
9 years ago

I can only agree with the author if he condemns USA, Britain and their allies for killing Sadam Hussen, Bin Laden and innocent Palestinians.

Concerned citizen
9 years ago

By your excellency’s definition, and reading the document on the attached link done by “The Washington Post”, (www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/05/01/everything-you-need-to-know-about-executions-in-the-united-states/) it would be tempting to think that you categorize Malawi and USA the same, as not being “Modern”. I feel there is a lot of room to argue as to whether in general the dream of democracy is delivering over all, or giving rise to leadership which is in general corrupt, cannot move nations forward and in turn leading to global insecurity. In fact if we were talking about being modern, then lets look to the UN, which has a lot of… Read more »

brutsha
brutsha
9 years ago

It’s interesting! Do you know that there are 32 states in the US, the model of democracy do still mete death sentence ? Eg Arizona , Nebraska , Texas, Nevada, Virginia , Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc . Do you know that to date 13 states in the US ban same sex marriage? And 10 states still have reservations on abortion ? Then why is the position Africa should take on this issues be dictated by the west?

The Patriot
The Patriot
9 years ago

Your excellence the High Commissioner, thank you for your article but I strongly disagree with you on several points! 1. The title”join the modern world”! Do you mean by having the Capital punishment in our constitution were not modern? I disagree because even the most modern countries actually the top 3 economies of the world have the death penalty ( 1. USA. 2 . China. 3. Japan). 2. Countries like in Latin America or The Philippines where death penalty was abolished have high murder rates. Actually there may be no evidence that death penalty deters murder but there is a… Read more »

Kenkkk
Kenkkk
9 years ago

Although the reasons given for abolishing the death penalty seems reasonable but we tend to forget the victims and their families in say murder cases. I consider death penalty for drug of offences as stupid and barbaric. But murder is a different issue, we have to consider more the victims and their families plight and not support murderers. Where it is proven beyond reasonable doubt as the murderer, then deAth penalty is right answer for the murderer. The death penalty option should be there and only used where it is clear the murderer is the murderer. So the approach we… Read more »

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