The bill marks one of France's biggest social reforms since the abolition of the death penalty in 1981.
It is true that the abolition of the death penalty is seldom the result of an upsurge of general revulsion.
So too was the bill which ended capital punishment in Britain - the Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965.
The marriage law is seen as France's most important social reform in France since the abolition of the death penalty in 1981.
Even the laws introducing abortion in 1974, and the abolition of the death penalty in 1981, required fewer hours of debate in parliament and proved less contentious.
The debate in parliament is expected to last two weeks and marks one of France's biggest social reforms since the abolition of the death penalty in 1981.
The Homicide Review Advisory Group claim the mandatory life sentence was a compromise arrived at to ensure the abolition of the death penalty made its way through both Houses of Parliament.
Sitting in his cramped offices in southern Seoul, lawyer Lee, who heads the Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, says a growing number of South Koreans concur with the popular Western view that executing murderers does little or nothing to deter potential killers.
MPs then turn to debates chosen by their representatives on the Backbench Business Committee - this week's subjects are the Kesri Lehar Campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in India, followed by the 25th anniversary of the Kurdish genocide - when Saddam Hussein's forces used poison gas against the Iraqi city of Halabja.
The country once had been at the forefront in the region's efforts to abolish in law and practice the death penalty, with a moratorium on the death penalty for 27 years and the abolition of capital punishment for drug offenses in April 2011, Heyns said.
The Philippines recently became one of the few countries to restore the death penalty after abolition.
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