A priest in the Catholic Diocese of Karonga has commended the highest court in the land—the Malawi Supreme Court—saying its decision to outlaw the death penalty is in line with the church’s teaching as regards “the sanctity of life.” Father Joseph Sikwese, who is also Bishop Martin Mtumbuka’s secretary, said in an interview with Nyasa […]
A body for persons with albinism has asked the state to use capital punishment on killers of persons with albinism to completely wipe out the vice in the country. Association of Persons with Albinism (Apam) coordinator Overston Kondowe said the use of capital punishment for killers of people with albinism would deter other would be […]
A number of activities have been organised by Malawian capital punishment campaigners, Reprieve in observing the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty scheduled for Zomba Prison where children and families of former death-row inmates, as well as former death-row inmates themselves will share their stories. Celebrated under the theme, ‘Children, Unseen Victims’, the World […]
Malawi government will call for people to apply to be the state’s executioner in a country where employment is hard to find as courts are now handing down death sentences to killers of person with albinism, a recent one being two men and a woman. The High Court sitting in central region border district of […]
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Samuel Tembenu has said the country still has a death penalty law and that though it hasn’t been used since the change to a democratic government in 1994, it can be court’s discretion to apply it to any murder case including people found guilty of killing persons with albinism . Tembenu said […]
Governance expert Makhumbo Munthali has given his views on capital punishment as Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) and the Malawi Law Society say they welcome President Peter Mutharika’s call for “honest” national dialogue on whether the country should implement the death penalty on individuals convicted of murder following increased cases of people with albinism. Despite the laws that […]
President Peter Mutharika has called for a “honest national dialogue” if the country should resume capital punishment in response to murder rate so that people found guilty of killing especially persons with albinism be slapped with death penalty. Mutharika said this in a statement issued by Presidential Press Secretary Mgeme Kalilani and made available to […]
Malawi government will soon call for people to apply to be the state’s executioner in a country where employment is hard to find as Presidential adviser on local policies Hetherwick Ntaba is lobbying for the application of a death sentence to people convicted of murdering persons with albinism. Ntaba, who is also chairperson of a […]
Presidential adviser on local policies Dr Hetherwick Ntaba, who is aslo chairperson of National Technical Committee on Abuse of Persons, is lobbying for the application of a death sentence to people convicted of murdering persons with albinism as as a deterrent measure to would-be offenders. Ntaba told a news conference in Lilongwe that he is in favour […]
Mulanje South parliamentarian-cum-comedian Bon Kalindo popularly known as Winiko has blasted donors specifically global human rights body, Amnesty International “to go to hell” with their anti-death penalty campaign, saying Malawi needs to execute killers of people with albinism. Kalindo, who organised a protest march to National Assembly with an aim to force the members of […]
Mulanje South member of Parliament (MP) Bon Kalindo (Democratic Progressive Party-DPP), on Thursday staged a ‘half-naked’ protest in the capital Lilongwe against the abductions and killings of people with albinism. Kalindo, who is leading a movement planning to demonstrate in favour of concrete action against perpetrators of attacks on people with albinism, had initially planned the ‘naked’ march […]
Information minister Patricia Kaliati has ruled out that government would implement the death penalty on killers of people with albinism, saying doing so would be contravening international human rights instruments Malawi signed. Kaliati’s comments come hot in the heels of calls by Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo to unleash the death penalty on the killers […]
It’s no comedy but reality protests! Mulanje South member of Parliament (MP) Bon Kalindo (a renowned comedian) is planning to stage a naked protests to push for death sentence implementation following the dramatic rise in abductions and killing of persons with albinism. Kalindo said he wants albino killers to face executions when convicted by the […]
The United Nations has welcomed the release of 13 persons from death row in Malawi in pursuant to a ruling of the Supreme Court of Appeal that prisoners sentenced to a mandatory death sentence are entitled to be resentenced. In 2007, in the Kafantayeni case, the High Court declared that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional, […]
Malawi High Court will from February 11 start rehearing cases of prisoners sentenced to the mandatory death sentence, with the first hearing expected to held in Zomba. In 2007 the High Court of Malawi abolished the mandatory death penalty. In what become known as the Kafanteyeni ruling the mandatory death penalty was deemed by the bench as unconstitutional as […]
Recent press reporting suggested that a Malawian had been executed in Indonesia. The case in question now seems to have involved a person of a different nationality who had somehow obtained a Malawian passport. But what if this person had been Malawian? What would the Malawian family, government and society response have been? Perhaps they […]
Malawi’s judiciary has said it will soon sit to re-hear cases of prisoners who were previously sentenced to mandatory death penalty. The re-hearing will only deal with the question of the sentence, to according to Joseph Chigona, Registrar of the High Court of Malawi and Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal. Re-hearing of the cases on […]
Barely a few days after President Pater Arthur Mutharika publicly declared “total war” against rising incidences of crime and theft in the country, the Muslim community has joined other sectors of the Malawi society in advocating for re-activation of capital punishment in the country’s statues as a permanent deterrent to soaring levels of crime. For […]