Burkina Faso's parliament has abolished the death penalty by adopting a new penal code that strikes it as a possible sentence.
Justice Minister Rene Bagoro
said Thursday May 31,2018 that the revised document paves the way for "more
credible, equitable, accessible and effective justice in the application
of criminal law."
The death penalty was kept
in the version of the criminal code adopted in 1996, but Burkina Faso
has not imposed capital punishment recently.
Many rights movements,
including Amnesty International and Catholic Church activists have
pressed the government for a decade to remove it from criminal statutes.
The decision to abolish the
death penalty comes amid a landmark trial this year over a failed 2015
coup. Two former presidential aides are among more than 80 people facing
the military tribunal.
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