Entries tagged with “Sierra Leone”
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,International
,Dec 28, 2022
Zambia Becomes 25th Sub-Saharan African Nation to Abolish Death Penalty
Fulfilling a pledge made while campaigning for office, Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on December 23, 2022 signed legislation abolishing the nation’s death penalty (pictured). Zambia’s repeal of its colonial-era capital punishment law made it the 25th sub-Saharan nation in Africa to abolish the death penalty. The new law also removed the offense of criminal defamation of the President from Zambia’s penal…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,International
,Sep 20, 2022
Equatorial Guinea Becomes 25th African Country to Abolish Death Penalty
Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, becoming the 25th African nation to end capital punishment and the fourth in the past two years. According to state television reports, on September 19, 2022, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signed into law a new criminal code that removes the death penalty from the statute books of the central African nation of 1.3 million people on the continent’s Atlantic…
Policy Issues
Human Rights
,International
,Jul 26, 2021
Sierra Leone Becomes 23rd African Country to Abolish the Death Penalty
The parliament of Sierra Leone voted unanimously on July 23, 2021 to abolish the death penalty, making the West African nation of 7.8 million people the 23rd country on the continent and the 110th worldwide to end capital…