The President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema announced his plans to abolish the death penalty row. According to the Zambian President, the death penalty practice is inhumane, degrading and cruel. This announcement has received widespread support and one of the supporters has been Dr. Rajan Mahtani. He is a noted businessman and philanthropist from Zambia as well as founder and current Chairman of the Prison Fellowship Zambia.
While supporting the Zambian President’s decision, Dr. Rajan Mahtani said that numerous Presidents before the contemporary one refused when it got here to signing the execution orders. In most of those instances, the Presidents heading off giving death penalty execution by means of using mercy prerogatives. The ultimate execution order in Zambia become given inside the year 1997 by means of President Chiluba. At the identical time, numerous initiatives are being taken in the direction of decongestion of the Zambian Prisons with the discharge of prisoners who've converted become nicely behaved and law-abiding residents of Zambia. Dr. Mahtani recalled an incident in which Vice-President Guy Scott who become the appearing President throughout that time. He visited the Maximum Prison Mukobeko and said that the conditions had been extraordinarily tough and tough, like hell in this earth. At the same time, Dr. Rajan Mahtani also stated from the non-secular point of view that demise penalty is in opposition to the Bible and teachings of Christianity. Dr.Rajan Mahtani has supplied his support closer to the choice made by means of the President Hakainde Hichilema and his corporation Prison Fellowship will provide all legal and regulatory assist in the direction of this statement.
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