Lebanon Becomes First Middle Eastern Country to Abolish the Death Penalty
The law replaces executions with life imprisonment and hard labor while leaving more than 80 people on death row, rights groups said.
- On Tuesday, Lebanon's Parliament abolished the death penalty, making it the first Arab country to replace capital punishment with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labor.
- The country has maintained an unofficial moratorium on executions since January 2004, while Parliament now debates a controversial general amnesty law, the largest since the 15-year civil war.
- Justice Minister Adel Nassar called the vote a "Historic step," while Ramzi Kaiss, a Lebanon Researcher at Human Rights Watch, described the move as "marking a final break from a cruel sentence."
- Hezbollah excepted its parliamentary bloc from the vote, and Family members of soldiers killed by Islamist militants protested, arguing for execution of perpetrators rather than reduced prison sentences.
- Cash-Strapped Lebanon faces significant challenges enforcing aggravated hard labor due to limited resources and overcrowded prisons, leaving the practical application of the new punishment unclear.
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Lebanon passes a controversial general amnesty law
Lebanon's parliament has passed a controversial general amnesty law, following the abolition of the death penalty. Lawmakers supporting the bill say it addresses past judicial overreach and helps overcrowded prisons, but critics argue it mainly benefits Sunni Islamist prisoners. The…
The Lebanese Parliament abolished the death penalty on Tuesday, making it the first country in the Arab world to replace that sentence with life imprisonment with...
The Parliament of Lebanon, the Janjali Law, issued a general amnesty for a woman with a reform, this is a matter of agreement, as a long-standing sentence has been long-standing and has been punished, corrected as a response.
Although the country had not carried out executions since 2004 owing to a moratorium, 85 persons remained on death row pending the replacement of their sentences with life imprisonment
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