Papua New Guinea's biggest jail, the Bomana Prison will soon host execution facilities in future, following Parliament's passage of laws, to put to use the death penalty.
Correctional Service Commissioner Martin Balthazer told NBC Current Issues, Bomana is currently being re-designed in a plan, that will include separate execution chambers. The make-over to Bomana prison follows a fact-finding mission by a delegation, made up of officers from the Attorney General and Justice Department, the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission, Department of Prime Minister and National Executive Council, Police, and the Correctional Service to the United States last month. "We've engaged a company to work on some design proposals which are yet to be endorsed my the minister and eventually to the attention of cabinet. "The facility itself is very expensive but under law as passed by government, we will have four execution facilities that's for hanging and then firing squad and 2x lethal injection. "There will be one facility with four chambers, for the implementation of those four methods, completely isolated and individually compartmentalized," Commissioner Balthazer said. A report on the procedures, equipment and facilities to be used to implement the death penalty is with the Prime Minister and the National Executive Council for deliberation. The report, described as confidential, was put together by a P-N-G delegation which visited execution facilities in the United States mid this year. Comments are closed.
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