The government is proposing that relatives of victims be allowed to address the court before sentence is passed. Perhaps they could take a lesson from Somalia:
A Somali teenager stabbed his father’s killer to death yesterday in a public execution ordered by an Islamic court.
Omar Hussein, 45, had been convicted of killing Sheik Osman Moallim, a teacher, in the capital, Mogadishu, after a dispute over the education of his 16-year-old son.
A court ordered that Sheik Moallim’s son, Mohamed, should execute the killer in the same manner as his father was murdered.
Hundreds of people watched the teenager stab Hussein several times in the chest and throat at the Koranic school where his father had worked, witnesses said.
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