Murati: The death penalty has not proved to prevent crime

After the tragic case in Podujevo, where the 18-year-old Movement for the Union died, Valon Murati estimates that the debate over the death penalty for suspects “is an attempt to flee the responsibilities we have as society”.

He says we should see where we failed as a society, starting with family, school, social services, justice, journalism and the economy.

“How many cases of macabre crime such as the last case in Podujevo, the debate over the death penalty brings to a conclusion. Instead of being a society to see where we have failed in such situations, especially when there are delicuent minors, starting with family, school, social services, justice, journalism, and the economy, we find the solution easier. Let's turn the death penalty” into social networks, our coffee tables, and sometimes you can hear such attitudes in our media too”

As Murati points out, the call to return the death penalty is called to flee all of our responsibility as society”.

It's a bunch of questions to ask. How's our education? How's the economy and social services? How's our family? What justice do we want, and what is our personal report on the law? What politicians do we love and worship? What debates do we want to hear on our television evenings? How do we conduct ourselves on social networks, especially those whose attitudes we dislike? What kind of businessmen do we really like? How do we educate our children? What values do we promote in them?

On the other hand, the chairman says he was not proven to have stopped crime.

On the other hand, the debate on the death penalty continues in the democratic world, but large-scale democratic countries have completely stopped this sentence because besides the moral problems it causes, besides the major mistakes that have been identified, the death penalty has not proved to prevent crime”.

On the other hand, Murati reports that the death penalty in effect denies Kosovo membership in the Council of Europe and the European Union.

And finally we come to the situation that Kosovo is in. This debate is futile in practice. It can be debated at academic levels, but the sentence cannot be returned to Kosovo. Unless we want to join the Council of Europe and later the European Union. You can't be accepted to the Council of Europe if you have the death penalty in force. This is an inexplicable condition because the ban on this sentence in all Council of Europe states is absolute even under war circumstances through Protocol 13 (2002) of the European Convention on Human Rights. This debate is often held in Albania. The situation is the same. In the last case alone, the Albanian state is returning the death sentence expelled from the Council of Europe”.

So let's get the debate back to normal track. Take seriously our children and young ones. Starting school. Consider seriously the early signs of minor deliciency. Try to be a more normal society so that we have children who take appropriate models from adults rather than models of “fortish”. T'E's starting with ourselves. Then the family. Let us also influence our attitudes on the behavior of politicians and those who have a bearing on public life”.

Recent “Rasts point to deeper social and structural problems. Justice is only a link. Let's hope he does his job right. But intervention must be much, much deeper and wider. The Family of Lulzim, the deepest of” condolences, writes away Murati.