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Aro (known only by that name) was the last person executed in Papua New Guinea.

In 1957, while Papua New Guinea was an Australian territory, Aro, then a young man, walked into a hospital "carrying a baby and a blood-stained axe" and stated that he had killed his two wives.

He was convicted of wilful murder, sentenced to death, and executed by hanging in November 1957.

There were no further executions. The death penalty was abolished in 1970, five years before Papua New Guinea's independence from Australia. It was reintroduced in 1991, but never applied.

See also

• Use of capital punishment by nation#Oceania
• Death penalty in Australia
• Death penalty in Papua New Guinea

References

[[Category:1957 deaths]] [[Category:People executed for murder]] [[Category:People executed by hanging]] [[Category:People executed by Papua New Guinea]] [[Category:Executed Papua New Guinean people]] [[Category:20th-century executions]] [[Category:People convicted of murder by Papua New Guinea]] [[Category:Papua New Guinean people convicted of murder]]

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