Capital punishment can help deter crime

ALMOST every day in our two dailies, reports of homicide crimes are making news headlines.
Police, who are the Government agent responsible to arrest or investigate and compile sufficient evidence to successfully prosecute such offenders, are often let down due to lack of resources and cooperation.
Police officers and the other relevant law enforcement officers such as Correctional Services officers and the judiciary staff, are just like the rest of us, they are only human.
Their jobs are often very risky, putting their own lives and their families’ lives on the line.
Law and order is supposed to be everybody’s business — each citizen should take ownership of it.
The reality is that homicide, like other crimes, cannot be erased from the surface of the Earth.
Why?
Because this crime historically dates back to Biblical times when Cain, the son of Adam, being jealous of his brother Abel, deliberately murdered him.
However, the crime of homicide could at least be minimised if the Government amended certain laws and put in place the right mechanisms to deter offenders.
Currently, assessing this crime trend occurring around the country, it is logical and timely that the Government implements capital punishment or the death penalty to deter such mentally sick people who want to only taking other people’s lives at will.
All this talk about Papua New Guinea being a Christian country and so the capital punishment should not be reintroduced is totally irrelevant and a mockery to the Bible principles.
The Bible itself states otherwise in Exodus 21:12, Numbers 35:16 and Leviticus 24:17, that if a person deliberately kills another person, this person should also be killed to ensure fair justice.
We are living in a time as being prophesied in the Bible that lawlessness and crimes would be getting out of hand and would become very difficult to minimise or control (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
Keep in mind this famous saying that “Prevention is better than cure”.
For instance, medics cannot cure Aids because there are no scientific breakthroughs as yet but they can heal and prolong the infected people’s lives with alternate remedies.
Likewise, capital punishment would assist in healing this very serious disease.
It cannot cure but it will deter.

Daniel Angiwe
Aitape