{"id":91307,"date":"2021-10-09T09:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=91307"},"modified":"2021-10-09T09:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:52:26","slug":"sierra-leone-formally-abolishes-inhumane-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/09\/sierra-leone-formally-abolishes-inhumane-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone formally abolishes &#8216;inhumane&#8217; death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday October 8, a bill abolishing the death penalty, was signed by Sierra Leone\u2019s President Julius Maada Bio.<\/p>\n<p>This has made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/23\/fg-to-support-sierra-leone-on-road-safety\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a>\u00a0the latest African state to ban capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after lawmakers in the West African country voted to end capital punishment in July, replacing the punishment with life imprisonment or a minimum 30-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a nation, we have today exorcised horrors of a cruel past,\u201d Bio said in a statement, adding that capital punishment is \u201cinhumane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe today affirm our belief in the sanctity of life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Leone, which is still recovering after decades of civil war, had frequently come under fire from rights groups for keeping capital punishment on the books.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Minister of Justice Umaru Napoleon Koroma told AFP that Sierra Leone&#8217;s first recorded execution dated from 1798 around a decade after Britain founded the colony for freed slaves in 1787.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-four people were living under a death sentence at the end of 2020, the minister added.<\/p>\n<p>No execution has taken place in the country since 1998, however, and death sentences were often commuted.<\/p>\n<p>After long resisting a formal ban on capital punishment, the government announced abolition plans in May. The parliament then voted in favour in July.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, execution will be replaced with life imprisonment or a minimum 30-year jail term for crimes such as murder or mutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Leone joins a growing number of African countries that have outlawed the death penalty, with Chad abolishing the punishment last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday October 8, a bill abolishing the death penalty, was signed by Sierra Leone\u2019s President Julius Maada Bio. This has made Sierra Leone\u00a0the latest African state to ban capital punishment. 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