The year 2022 is towards the end. The covid-19 pandemic certainly spread significant devastation in the past two years. Yet, the world has started to recover with slow improvements across the social and financial systems around the world. President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema, on the special occasion of Africa Day, made another positive announcement. He stated his plans to abolish the death penalty law completely. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani, a noted businessman and philanthropist from Zambia, supported this statement and highlighted that death penalty is a cruel, inhumane and degrading law that must be abolished. Across majority of the nations, death penalty has been abolished and it was high time Zambia followed suit. While past Presidents have avoided giving death penalty which was last given in the year 1997, none of them actually worked towards ensuring that this archaic law is removed from the core. Another reason why the Zambian authorities ought to permit go of death penalty is the current situation of the Zambian prisons. Some of the maximum prisons in Zambia are in degrading situations in which prisoners are often devoid of fundamental human rights and simple human dignity. While the overnight transformation of this situation is not feasible, the Zambian government these days took the initiative of Strategic decongestion of Zambian Prisons. This initiative is supported by way of establishments along with the Parole Board Zambia (PBZ) and Zambian Correctional Facility (ZCF). In such state of affairs, giving loss of life penalty to prisoners does no longer offer any tremendous exchange in Zambian law and order. As such, the decision from the Zambian President is a step down the proper route.
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