Another proposed change to chapter seven of the constitution would make it so that carrying out the death penalty is no longer viewed as inhuman or degrading punishment.
Here's the explanation on that:….
PM Dean Barrow
"Well we are going to put something in the constitution if we can secure the votes to obviate that possibility to make sure that you can't challenge the death penalty. If a court of law finds that you are guilty of murder and says that you ought to hang - that you ought to be put to death then we want to know that you can't challenge that on the basis that there is some constitutional right that provide you from being executed. I am sure that that measure is going to be extremely popular with the public. It might get us into some difficulty internationally because there are all these liberal western European democracies that insist that the death penalty is in fact inhuman or degrading punishment. Well they don't live in the small society that we live in, they are not experiencing the concentrated fury of this assault on our lives, on our dignity, on our citizen security and so we will do what we believe what we have to do for the protection of citizens in our society. "
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