Introduce capital punshment for the passion-killers! But although the idea amongst others aims to scare potential passion killers to drop their murdering intentions, executing them will not bring back the loved-on (deceased). On the other hand - some if not most passion killers commit suicide immediately after they kill their lovers. Who will then face the death penalty?

 With the increasing cases of so called passion killing - the death that include women killed by their lovers or boy friends or at times ex-boy friends some of whom commit suice in the process... some quarters of the society including individual opions on the social network are calling for the death penalty.

The reason behind the calling of capital punishment amongst others is seem by some as a solution to the current incidents of passion killing in Namibia. Two weeks ago, a 24 year old woman was decapitated by her lover, and three days ago, another woman was killed and left with an axe stuck in her head also by her lover. Before that, other isolate cases were also reported and the nation has been wondering as to what could be the deterrend to these barbaric acts. They say, if the death penalty is introduced, those intending to do so will be afraid to commit those acts.

The tricky thing however is that, in most cases, the perpetrators commit suicide and one wonders whether the death penalty in this case will be around to face death by legal means?

The other question that comes to mind however is - why are Namibians calling for capital punishment? Is the current punishment meted out for those found guilty if any not worth it?

During the Ruling Party's Vice-President Question Time at its SWAPO Party Leadership meeting in Windhoek on Saturday, 15th Feb 2014 at the Katutura Community Hall, one of the written questions read out to the participants was the need to introduce capital punshment.

But, Dr Geingob said capital punishment was not a solution to the current killings - and Namibia's constitutions was hailed by many as the beacon of hope, and to change it to include capital punishment was just not a solution. He advised communities and the various leaders to stand up and see how this issue could be managed, but not to introduce capital punishment. Dr Geingob who is also Namibia's Prime Minister said appropriate punishments must instead be found to take on the culprits.

Other school of thoughts are again arguing that the Namibian Nation is already so small in terms of its population, and executing perpertrators instead of correcting or rehabilitating them or just punish them severely is better. Others said it was time for various media houses especially the National Broadcasters various language services to start educating the nation about the dangerous of passion killings in a broad sense and find remedies to this challenge. Infact a comment made during the question time was implying that that fact that the local media and especially TV's show the passion killing incidents, somehow encourage the potential passion killers to continue with this evil, but this is debatable because audiences need to be informed about happenings taking place in their communities and surroundings including crimes which also include passion killing. Other opinions are again advancing the idea of parents to educate their children especially the boys about the human life and appreciation of their partners and that killing others is not the solution to their problems. It is one of the the mammoth task on the Namibian nation at the moment.

While Namibians are grappling with the question of passion killing, it will be worth it for those with brilliant ideas whether from within or outside our borders to share these with the nation as fear as to which woman is next to be killed has definitely grabbed many.

An alternative solution is therefore advised but not capital punishment.