Zambian President Decides To Abolish Death Penalty, Supported By Majority.

The death penalty is a discredited concept that conflicts with the ‘rule of law’ at its most fundamental level. In light of these fundamentals, Zambia’s president, Hakainde Hichilema, declared that his administration plans to repeal the death sentence law. This announcement received a lot of support from the general public and the business community. Recent supporters of this declaration include Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani, a well-known businessman, philanthropist, and volunteer from Zambia. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani backed up the President’s comments by claiming that the death penalty is cruel, harsh, and degrading and that it offers the Zambian government no options. At the same time, most nations have virtually abolished the death penalty, with Africa seeing an increase in this tendency. This forced previous presidents of Zambia to abstain from applying the death penalty. In 1997, the death penalty was finally applied by President Chiluba, and the criminal was executed. Zambian presidents have since used their compassion prerogatives to avoid carrying out the death penalty. The current status of some Zambian prisons provides even another argument against the viability of the death penalty from an economic and social standpoint. Famous people who have visited the Zambian Maximum Prisons have regularly described them as “hell on earth.” Prisoners frequently lack fundamental human rights and decency in these jails. In response, the Zambian government has been systematically reducing the number of people incarcerated by collaborating with institutions like the Zambian Correctional Facility and the Parole Board of Zambia (PBZ). It makes little sense to sentence people to death who are already leading deplorable lives in such circumstances. Dr. Rajan Lekhraj Mahtani will provide legal and regulatory help through his organization Prison Fellowship Zambia (PFZ), a well-known Christian Outreach Program that seeks to teach the teachings of the Almighty God to Zambia’s prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families. Overall, the death penalty is incorrect, and the president of Zambia’s comments increase the standard for that nation’s legal system.