Burkina Faso Reinstates Death Penalty: Justice Ministry
- Burkina Faso’s Justice Ministry said the country reinstated the death penalty after a unanimous vote by its unelected legislature.
- The new penal code reverses Burkina Faso’s 2018 abolition of capital punishment.
- The state news agency said terrorism, espionage, treason, patricide, and certain fatal imports could carry the death penalty.
- Amnesty International urged Burkina Faso not to restore capital punishment; the country’s last recorded execution was in 1988.
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Burkina Faso reinstates death penalty: Justice ministry
The last recorded execution in Burkina Faso took place in 1988. The decision marks a significant shift in the country’s criminal justice system and raises renewed questions about human rights and the use of capital punishment.
On Tuesday, 20 October, the 71 Burkina Faso MPs unanimously adopted a new penal code that reintroduces the death penalty for a number of crimes related to terrorism, espionage, treason or the importation of obsolete or prohibited products that could lead to death. The text also provides for tougher penalties for many offences.
Reformatorisch Dagblad
The military junta in Burkina Faso has reinstated the death penalty. The unelected government voted unanimously for the measure, which had been abolished in 2018.
The military regime officially announced its intention to reinstate the death penalty by passing a bill last December, which was abolished in 2018.
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