BURKINA FASO BRINGS BACK DEATH PENALTY AS PRESIDENT TRAORÉ GETS TOUGH ON SERIOUS CRIMES
BURKINA FASO BRINGS BACK DEATH PENALTY AS PRESIDENT TRAORÉ GETS TOUGH ON SERIOUS CRIMES BURKINA FASO has officially reinstated the death penalty, eight years after abolishing capital punishment, in a major legal reform under the country’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. The West African nation’s 71-member transitional legislature unanimously approved a revised penal code on […] The post BURKINA FASO BRINGS BACK DEATH PENALTY AS PRESIDENT TRAORÉ GETS TOUGH ON SERIOUS CRIMES first appeared on The Zambian Observer .