If the National Assembly votes now on abolishing the death penalty, the measure would not pass, Presidential Advise on Governance Gail Teixeira says.
“In the Parliament, were we to take a vote at this point… it would lose,” Teixeira said while speaking at a forum organised by the non-governmental organisation Justice Institute Guyana as the World Day against the Death Penalty was observed yesterday.
Teixeira did not indicate which side would vote against the measure but when the issue of a moratorium on the death penalty came up during a debate in the National Assembly in 2010, government said that it was not prepared to move for total abolition. Opposition speakers had urged the PPP administration to go the full mile.
Amnesty International campaigner for the abolishment of the death penalty Chiara Sangiorgio, who was present at yesterday’s
