Use of Death Penalty Declines in Africa DeutscheWelle: Africa
Equatorial Guinea plans to remove the death penalty from its criminal code by the end of 2022 -- making it the 24th country on the African continent to abolish capital punishment. The legislative change is considered to be an essential reform in one of the world's most authoritarian countries.
However, though some countries have actively abolished capital punishment, the number of recorded death sentences across the continent increased by 22% last year, she pointed out, adding that in the Democratic Republic of Congo the number had risen sharply to at least 81 death sentences from around 20 the previous year.
"Although we have had a moratorium for the last 25 years, no one has been executed," he insisted. But he added that this was not enough:"We want to make sure that subsequent governments can't execute anyone under the law." In 144 countries, the death penalty has been abolished in law or in practice, according to the rights organizationHowever, in its annual review of the use of the death penalty worldwide, which was published in March, Amnesty recorded an increase in executions and death sentences last year.
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