BURKINA FASO BRINGS BACK DEATH PENALTY AS PRESIDENT TRAORÉ GETS TOUGH ON SERIOUS CRIMES
Burkina Faso has officially brought back the death penalty. This move comes eight years after the country had abolished capital punishment. The decision was part of a legal reform led by military leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré. A 71-member transitional legislature approved the revised penal code unanimously.
BURKINA FASO BRINGS BACK DEATH PENALTY AS PRESIDENT TRAORÉ GETS TOUGH ON SERIOUS CRIMES BURKINA FASO has officially reinstated the death penalty, eight years after abolishing capital punishment, in a major legal reform under the country’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. The West African nation’s 71-member transitional legislature unanimously approved a revised penal code on […] The post BURKINA FASO BRINGS BACK DEATH PENALTY AS PRESIDENT TRAORÉ GETS TOUGH ON SERIOUS CRIMES first appeared on The Zambian Observer .