PAPUA NEW GUINEA: GO-AHEAD TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY BY LETHAL INJECTION

April 9, 2014: the National Executive Council has given the green light for work to proceed in establishing necessary policies to enable the implementation of the death penalty through lethal injection.
On 7 March 2014, a government committee had recommended that lethal injections be the method of executing prisoners sentenced to death.
The death chamber will be set up within the new maximum security prison which will be built at Bomana, on the outskirts of Port Moresby.
Training for those who will be responsible for carrying out the death penalty will also be carried out by experts to be recruited by the government.
A highly placed government officer said thirteen prisoners on death row would be given the chance to exhaust all avenues of appealing their sentences. (Sources: pngedge.com, 09/04/2014)