In recent years, sub-Saharan Africa has stood out as a beacon of hope and positive progress on the campaign for the abolition of the death penalty. While Guinea’s Military Code still provides for the death penalty for some exceptional crimes, a Bill to remove all the death penalty provisions from the Military Code is pending in that country’s National Assembly. In 1977, when Amnesty International started campaigning and advocating for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty no country in sub-Saharan Africa had abolished the death penalty for all crimes. REMOVED DEATH PENALTYIndeed, despite not having removed the death penalty, it is instructive to note that Kenya has not carried out executions in 30 years and this move further steers it away from the death penalty. There is no reason why, in the foreseeable future, the region could not be completely free of the death penalty.

Source: Daily Nation May 01, 2017 18:56 UTC