EU calls for acceptance of proposal on death penalty

For the first time in the history and development of Constitutions in Tanzania, a final Draft Constitution has included in it the death penalty and how it can be executed by the Head of State. All Constitutions before and after independence have never included in their Articles a crime of murder or any other crime, whose penalty is death.

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Death penalty should not be abolished
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Those human Rights campaigns who are seeking to Pressurize Tanzanians into abolishing the death penalty are addressing the wrong audience; instead, they should ascertain and prevail upon Tanzania's minority with murderous tendencies and the latter's ...

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CA supports death penalty
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The death penalty is likely to remain in the new constitution as members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) yesterday expressed general support for capital punishment and suggested hanging of corrupt public officers. The CA is of the view that the penalty is ...

A Nigerian court martial in the capital Abuja sentences 54 soldiers to death for refusing to fight Boko Haram Islamist militants.

A Kenyan nurse is sentenced to death after being found guilty of carrying out an abortion five years ago on a woman who later bled to death.

Following attacks by Boko Haram militants, MPs in Chad vote to reinstate the death penalty for acts of terrorism six months after it was abolished.

EU Heads of Mission and Officials in a group picture with CHRAGG officials (L-R: first row): Maria van Berlekom – Head of Development Cooperation (Swedish Embassy), H.E. Mr Egon Kochanke – German Ambassador, Camilla Christensen- Deputy Head of Mission (Danish Embassy), H.E. Mr Paul Cartier – Belgian Ambassador, H.E Mr Filiberto Ceriani Sebregondi – EU Ambassador, Ms Mary Massay – Executive Secretary (CHRAGG), Luana Reale – Head of Politics, Press & Information (EU), Francis Nzuki – Director...

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Death penalty hovers over mentally disabled people
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People with mental disabilities risk being sentenced to death and executed in breach of international standards, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty has said. It made the statement in a press release to mark the World Day Against the Death Penalty ...

A man is sentenced to hang for murder following a virtual court session amid the coronavirus pandemic.