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Lebanon
Lebanon's Parliamentary Administration and Justice Committee held a session to discuss a proposal to abolish the death penalty, postponing a final decision.
Lebanon's Parliamentary Administration and Justice Committee convened on Tuesday, chaired by MP George Atallah, with the presence of MP Ashraf Baydoun as the session's special rapporteur. The meeting, attended by Minister of Justice Judge Adel Nassar and representatives from the Supreme Judicial Council, the Ministry of Interior, the Internal Security Forces, the Beirut Bar Association, and the Lebanese Human Rights Organization, focused on a proposal to abolish the death penalty in Lebanon.
The committee began by examining the draft law aimed at eliminating capital punishment. MP Michel Moussa, head of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee and one of the proposal's sponsors, presented the initiative and the accompanying report from his committee. The members then reviewed the justifications for the proposal and heard opinions from relevant authorities.
Following a general discussion, the committee started reviewing the proposal's articles and its underlying justifications. It decided to task some of its members with reformulating the justifications. During the article-by-article review, the committee paused to address the precise wording for replacing the death penalty with an alternative punishment. This point sparked an in-depth debate aimed at crafting a clear formulation that would prevent any ambiguity for the courts.
Consequently, the committee decided to postpone a final decision on the proposal until its next session.
