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‘Death for Terror’: President Ali ready to sign execution order for gas station bomber Oct 29, 2025 News (Kaieteur News) – President Irfaan Ali could allow Guyana’s death penalty law to work in the case of the Venezuelan gas station bomber, who is accused of planting an explosive device at the Mobil Gas Station Sunday evening, which resulted in the death of a six-year-old child and injuring several others. Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond, addressing members of the media on Tuesday, said the Guyanese leader is prepared to pursue legal routes to ensure the accused pay for his crime. The minister was part of a security team, including Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken and Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, updating the press on the ongoing investigation into the fatal bombing. Walrond said the untimely death of young Soraya Bourne is still a devastating loss for the country. “A young innocent child has been murdered. Had this man been able to put the device in the bin, more lives would have been lost, but one Guyanese life is still too much. I’m absolutely sure that the Commander-in-Chief will sign on to it,” Minister Waldron said of the death penalty. CCTV footage showed that the man sought to place the explosive in a bin next to a pump attendant, moments before the explosion. The video showed the woman motioning to him that he could not put the package there. He later took it to another location at the gas station. Sources said had the explosive been left in the bin, the devastation would have been much more catastrophic as more lives could have been lost and more properties destroyed. In an earlier post on his Facebook page Tuesday, President Ali cited the Criminal Law Offences Act Chapter 8:01 which states that “A person who commits a terrorist act commits an offence and shall, on conviction on indictment, be liable to be sentenced to death, if such act has resulted in the death of any person. Guyanese have been pressed about the terrorist suspect, Daniel Alexander Ramirez Peodomo, who is accused of planting the bomb at the Mobil gas station on Regent and King Streets, Sunday evening, which claimed the life of Bourne and injuring several other family members. The child was in a car at the time when the bomb exploded. While the death penalty has been legal in Guyana, no one has been put to death since the 1997 hanging of Michael Archer and Peter Adams for murder. Guyana’s constitution allows for the use of the death penalty for crimes such as murder, treason and some terrorist acts. According to the Guyana – Human Rights Committee – Death Penalty, Guyana has not abolished the death penalty or acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The death penalty could be abolished by Guyana’s Parliament, but politically Guyana does not appear inclined to do so. An informal, non-binding moratorium on executions exists because no one has been executed since 1997. Death sentences, however, continue to be issued. Guyana’s general criminal law statute was amended to limit cases in which a death sentence can be imposed and removed the penalty of mandatory death sentences in almost all cases under that law, the organization stated. Daniel Alexander Ramirez Peodomo, death penalty, execution order, gas station bomber, Irfaan Ali, Soraya Bourne
