Kua to table report on queries over death penalty

MINISTER for Justice and Attorney-General Kerenga Kua will report to Parliament why the death penalty in PNG has never been enforced.
Kua said he did not know why that had never been enforced and he would able to say why after getting reports from the department and its secretary.
He was responding to questions without notice from the member for Lagaip-Porge­ra, Nixon Mangape, during question time in parliament yesterday.
Mangape said law and order issues in PNG were getting out of hand and that killings and rapes were too frequent.
He said it was time the death penalty was enforced as it already existed in law.
He said if the death penalty was enforced, the level of killings, rapes and other major crimes should fall.
The courts have, at one time enforced the death penalty for a double murder but the execution was rejected by the Supreme Court years back and since then no one had been executed.