
PAKISTAN: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG DEALERS
21 December 2022
The National Assembly on 20 December 2022 approved “The Control of Narcotics Substance (Amendment) Bill, 2022,” abolishing death sentence for illicit trafficking of narcotics and psychotropic drugs.
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Justice Landing M. Sanneh, the presiding Judge of the High Court in Basse, in the Upper River Region (URR) has sentenced Bakary Jallow, a driver by profession to death for reportedly killing one Alieu Sanyang, The Point reported on 20 December 2022.
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