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BURKINA FASO: CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS PUSH FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY

June 9, 2016: About ten civil society groups in Burkina Faso launched a campaign aimed at pushing for the abolition of death penalty in the West African country where about 13 people have been sentenced to hang.
 According to spokesman Urbain Yameogo on behalf of the ten civil society groups, all organizations engaged in the national coalition against the death sentence "have a firm conviction that the death penalty in our legal provisions is unconstitutional."
 Yameogo said the groups was alarmed by the recent increase in death sentences in Burkina Faso.
 He attributed this situation to the rise in large scale crime such as terrorism and other atrocious crimes that negatively influence public opinion against the push for abolition of death penalty.
 Despite having the death penalty in its statute books, Burkina Faso has not hanged anyone since 1988. However, 13 people are currently awaiting their execution after being sentenced to death.
 The latest case occurred in July last year when an army officer was sentenced to hang after killing his ex-girlfriend.
 In 2015, a bill proposing abolition of death penalty was introduced in Parliament by the then head of the National Transition Council Cheriff Sy. The bill was supported by Burkina Faso Bar Association as well as civil society organizations.
 "The best reward we can give to the country in the year 2016, which has been declared the African Year of Human Rights, with a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women, is to completely abolish death penalty," Yameogo said. (Sources: Cihan/Xinhua, 10/06/2016)

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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: MILITARY COURT MARTIAL SENTENCES 31 TO DEATH
PAKISTAN: SC RESTORES DEATH SENTENCE OF PML-N MNA
IRAN: AT LEAST 3 PRISONERS HANGED AT BANDAR ABBAS CENTRAL PRISON ON DRUG CHARGES
BANGLADESH: SIX TO HANG FOR AHSANULLAH MASTER MURDER
SRI LANKA: DEATH SENTENCE FOR JORDANIAN HEROIN PEDDLER
UTAH (USA): EACH DEATH ROW INMATE COSTS $1.66 MILLION MORE IN TAXPAYER MONEY THAN ONE SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE
SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT TO DEPORT BOTSWANA MURDERERS TO FACE DEATH SENTENCE
TRINIDAD: EDWARDS FREED AFTER THE PRESIDENT DIRECTED THE COURT OF APPEAL TO RECONSIDER HIS CASE
CHINA HAS SCALED DOWN DEATH PENALTY AND INCREASED CHECKS SINCE 2012, GOV’T REPORT SAYS
CHINA: MAN WHO KILLED 6 PEOPLE DURING A SHOOTING SPREE IN SHANGHAI EXECUTED
UAE: DEATH PENALTY FOR ALGERIAN WHO KILLED CHINESE MAN UPHELD
IRAQ: SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2015 BOMBING NEAR U.S. CONSULATE
INDIA: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES 7 FOR SPYING AND HELPING US DRONE STRIKES
NIGERIA: OSUN STATE GOVERNOR PARDONS 17 PRISONERS, COMMUTES FOUR DEATH SENTENCES
FLORIDA (USA): ANOTHER JUDGE RULES DEATH PENALTY LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL
PAKISTAN: THREE GET DEATH SENTENCE IN JUDGE MURDER CASE
EGYPT: 26 SENTENCED TO DEATH, 21 TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR ASWAN VIOLENCE
IRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN MASHHAD
PAKISTAN: KILLER OF THREE EXECUTED IN MULTAN
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