Cattle raiders who kill a person in the process will face the death penalty, three bordering state governors have announced.

The death sentence is just one of the major security resolutions agreed upon at a security meeting held by Warrap, Lakes and Unity states this week.

”Some of the major recommendations are, the cattle rustling activities were criminalized, and if anybody is found to have killed a person in the process of cattle raiding will be sentences to death or will pay fifty one heads of cattle,” Lakes state Minister of Information Dut Makoi Kok told Eye Radio.

“In addition to that, he will be imprisoned for five years and he will be fined, 5,000 pounds.”

The meeting also resolved to open ‘security roads’ at the three neighboring states to facilitate easy movement of security personnel. There are no road networks in the three borders state.

Mister Makoi also said coordinated deployment of security and comprehensive disbarment are among the recommendations agreed at the meeting.

Cattle rustling and revenge attacks are major issues in South Sudan with hundreds of people killed each year.

South Sudan 2008 Code of Criminal Procedure provides that execution is by hanging.

From its independence on July 9, 2011, to the end of 2012, South Sudan conducted at least 10 executions. It also imposed new death sentences in 2011 and 2012.

However, these death sentences have attracted international call to abolish the practice.