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17355
Fri, 08/29/2008 - 14:06
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GOVT IS URGED THAT AN EXECUTION IS CARRIED OUT IN AN OPEN SPACE
Yogyakarta, Aug 29 (ANTARA) - The government has been urged to execute death rown inmates transparently and in an open space.
"It is not wrong for us to adopt the capital punishment practiced in Saudi Arabia. The execution of a convict is conducted in an open field and can be witnessed by the public," a lecturer of Law Faculty of the Indonesian Islamic University, M. Abdul Kholiq SH, said on Thusday.
This is expected to make people afraid of committing a murder, witnessing an execution in an open space, Abdul said.
According to him, the execution of convicts in Indonesia lacked transparency and its implementation was often kept secret from the public.
A clause on the procedure of an execution in the draft law on crimes said that it was not open to the public, he stressed.
Abdul further said that concept like this could hamper the main objective of handing down a death sentence to a defendant, and served as a deterrent.
He admitted he could understand the pros and cons pertaining to an execution in Indonesia on account of disrespecting human rights as well as religious doctrines saying that the life and death of a person is actually in the hands of God.
Till now this issue is still a polemic because of a death sentence on a person, he said.
Abdul opined that in Islamic law as well as in other religions, an execution of a person was no longer debated, by except human right activists who often saw it from a different perception.
"It is not wrong for us to adopt the capital punishment practiced in Saudi Arabia. The execution of a convict is conducted in an open field and can be witnessed by the public," a lecturer of Law Faculty of the Indonesian Islamic University, M. Abdul Kholiq SH, said on Thusday.
This is expected to make people afraid of committing a murder, witnessing an execution in an open space, Abdul said.
According to him, the execution of convicts in Indonesia lacked transparency and its implementation was often kept secret from the public.
A clause on the procedure of an execution in the draft law on crimes said that it was not open to the public, he stressed.
Abdul further said that concept like this could hamper the main objective of handing down a death sentence to a defendant, and served as a deterrent.
He admitted he could understand the pros and cons pertaining to an execution in Indonesia on account of disrespecting human rights as well as religious doctrines saying that the life and death of a person is actually in the hands of God.
Till now this issue is still a polemic because of a death sentence on a person, he said.
Abdul opined that in Islamic law as well as in other religions, an execution of a person was no longer debated, by except human right activists who often saw it from a different perception.
