{"id":40914,"date":"2022-01-21T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/papua-new-guinea-repeals-death-penalty-30-years-after-reintroduction"},"modified":"2022-01-21T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T05:09:42","slug":"papua-new-guinea-repeals-death-penalty-30-years-after-reintroduction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40914","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea repeals death penalty 30 years after reintroduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice minister says state lacks ability to humanely execute those convicted, while PM says PNG is a \u2018Christian nation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea has repealed the death penalty 30 years after reintroducing it, with prime minister James Marape saying it was \u201cnot an effective deterrent to serious crime\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Offences such as treason, piracy, murder \u2013 including sorcery related violence \u2013 and aggravated rape will now be punishable by life imprisonment without parole or parole after 30 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/papua-new-guinea-repeals-death-penalty-30-years-after-reintroduction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice minister says state lacks ability to humanely execute those convicted, while PM says PNG is a \u2018Christian nation\u2019Papua New Guinea has repealed the death penalty 30 years after reintroducing it, with prime minister James Marape saying it was \u201cnot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1038,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-capital-punishment","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40916,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40914\/revisions\/40916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}