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Sierra Leone Becomes 23rd African Country to Abolish the Death Penalty
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Sierra Leone parliament votes to abolish death penalty
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Sierra Leone parliament votes to abolish death penalty
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Sierra Leone has become the latest African state to abolish the death penalty after MPs voted unanimously to abandon the punishment.
On Friday the west African state became the 23rd country on the continent to end capital punishment, which is largely a legacy of colonial legal codes. In April, Malawi ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional, while Chad abolished it in 2020. In 2019, the African human rights court ruled that mandatory imposition of the death penalty by Tanzania was “patently unfair”.
Of those countries that retain the death penalty on their statute books, 17 are abolitionist in practice, according to Amnesty International.
Campaigners hail historic Sierra Leone move to end death penalty
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