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In 2017 the Supreme Court abolished the mandatory death penalty, declaring it unconstitutional. [10] A widely circulated report in 2018-19 implied that the government had announced its intent to reintroduce the death penalty for wildlife poaching. However, the report was not adopted and no such plans are in consideration. [11]
Days after the convictions and death sentences, the United Nations requested that the DRC continue their de facto moratorium on the death penalty, stating, "We reiterate the Secretary-General’s opposition to the use of the death penalty in all circumstances. . . . Noting that there is a de facto moratorium on the imposition of the death ...
Kigula's attorneys joined with anti-death penalty activists active in challenging the death penalty in Africa and the Caribbean region in using Kigula's case to challenge Uganda's mandatory death penalty laws. At the time Kigula was selected to be the lead applicant for an appeal challenging Uganda's mandatory death penalty, there were 417 ...
The abolition of the death penalty resulted in approximately 1,365 death row inmates having their sentences commuted. [15] Rwanda was the first country in the African Great Lakes region to abolish capital punishment. [18] Rwanda was also the 100th country worldwide to abolish the death penalty. [12]
Of the 50 cities on the list, 41 are within Latin America and 21 of those cities are located in Brazil.
In April 1993, President Jawara formally proposed abolishing the death penalty. The Gambian Parliament passed bills to remove the country's death penalty laws from their criminal code in April 1993 by overwhelmingly supportive margins. Between independence in 1965 and the initial abolition in 1993, only one execution, that of Danso, was carried ...
(Top) 1 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... Angola voted in favor of the UN moratorium on the death penalty in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, ...
10 October 1987 [4] Eshan Nayeck: murder: hanging: C Morocco: 5 September 1993 [31] Mustapha Tabet: rape: firing squad: A Mozambique: May 1986 [4] A Namibia: May 1988 [4] Sagarias Ariseb murder: hanging: C Niger: 1976 [3] Bayéré Moussa, Sidi Mohamed, and Ahmed Mouddour treason: D Nigeria: 23 December 2016 [32] Ogbomoro Omoregie, Apostle Igene ...