Africa - Voice of America: Sierra Leone Government Promises End to Death Penalty

Africa - Voice of America africa

Sierra Leone Government Promises End to Death Penalty Aug 28th 2012, 13:14 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Solomon Sogbandi, the acting director for Amnesty International in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone says the group is working to make sure the government abolishes the death penalty in the country.  So far the government has put a moratorium on executions. And that is a step in the right direction, Sogbandi says. "To us [the death penalty is] unconstitutional and violation to the right to life, as it says in Universal Declaration of Human Rights," ...

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