GOV'T CONSIDERS ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY  – The Standard Newspaper

‘Gov’t is pursuing complete abolition of death penalty’

According to the Minister, The Gambia’s commitments under international treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, place obligations on the state to respect the sanctity of life and work towards abolishing the death penalty. He explained that in 2018, the President placed a memorandum on the death penalty and commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment.…

GOV'T CONSIDERS ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY  – The Standard Newspaper

By Tabora Bojang The Minister of Justice yesterday informed the National Assembly that the current policy position of The Gambia Government is to abolish the death penalty in the law books. Minister Jallow was responding to a question from the Member for Old Yundum Abdoulie Ceesay who sought clarification on whether the government is considering […]