MPs want execution for albino killers: ‘Tit-for-tat justice’

Some Malawian lawmakers at a National Stakeholders Conference held in the Malawi capital, Lilongwe, on Tuesday, have proposed  tit-for-tat justice to end the senseless murderers of person with albinism  by hanging all albino killers, it has been reported .

The conference was convened by civil society organisations to brainstorm strategies aimed at ending the abductions and killings of people with albinism in Malawi.

“He who kills should be killed,” said a lawmaker from the opposition Malawi Congress Party, Madalitso Kazombo.

Kazombo disclosed that a group of concerned legislators would table a proposal in Parliament to strengthen the Penal Code so that albino killers were sentenced to death “instead of merely jailing them”.

“The correct punishment for albino killers is death. We should not even debate about this. Anti-death penalty activists should shut up on this matter,” he said.

Another lawmaker, Richard Chimwendo, told the conference that the ultimate punishment of death should be imposed to albino killers to deter others from the senseless killings.

He also said the crackdown on albino murderers should be taken to three key players in their syndicates: the ruthless thugs, the deceitful magicians, and the superstitious customers.

“It is a pity that, so far, the thugs who kill albinos and the magicians who use albino parts are the ones who are being netted and jailed, while the customers who are the financiers are walking scot free,” he observed.

The debate on the death penalty remains thorny in Malawi, as convicted murderers are never executed. Their sentences are simply commuted to life imprisonment.

 

 

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