Death penalty in Namibia

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Death penalty in Africa :
  • completely abolished
  • only in special criminal proceedings (e.g. martial law)
  • Freeze of execution
  • applied

    • The death penalty in Namibia , ie in what is now Namibia , the former South West Africa or German South West Africa , was the highest punishment to be imposed. With independence on March 21, 1990, the death penalty was abolished in Namibia by constitution (Chapter 3, Article 5).

    The exclusion of the death penalty was preceded by intensive talks in the framework of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia in 1989. For example, the later Prime Minister and Defense Minister Nahas Angula did not speak out directly against the death penalty and the later Environment and Tourism Minister Niko Bessinger considered the possibility of using the death penalty in special cases to be sensible. Other committee members, in turn, spoke out in favor of leaving the issue out of the constitution.

    Since the increase in serious criminal offenses in Namibia since the early 2000s, the introduction of the death penalty on a non-political level has again been the subject of controversy.

    history

    The death penalty was already imposed during the German colonial period. On November 8, 1896, this was also introduced against so-called natives .

    Most recently, the death penalty was carried out on the territory of the former South West Africa under South African law in May 1988 on Sagarias Ariseb for murder by hanging . The 25-year-old was convicted of murder in November 1987. In 1989, the last death sentence on South West African soil was commuted to life imprisonment .

    Individual evidence

    1. ^ The Constitution of The Republic of Namibia. 1990.
    2. ^ Standing Committee on Standing Rules and Orders and Internal Arrangements. Windhoek, December 13, 1989.
    3. ↑ Matthew Burnett: The Death Penalty: A violation of basic human rights and an ineffective crime deterrent , 2005. ( available online )
    4. ↑ Death penalty resurfaces. The Namibian, October 20, 2006.
    5. ↑ Bring back the death penalty. New Era, June 24, 2016.
    6. ↑ Death penalty. Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, 1920, Volume III, p. 497.
    7. ^ Capital punishment in the British Commonwealth. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
    8. ↑ Ariseb guilty of murder. The Namibian, November 20, 1987, p. 8.
    9. ↑ Life sentence prisoners want clarity on parole. The Namibian, October 31, 2012.