Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nMalawi’s highest court has outlawed the death penalty and ordered the re-sentencing of all convicts facing execution.<\/p>\n
Capital punishment has long been mandatory in Malawi for prisoners convicted of murder or treason, and optional for rape.<\/p>\n
Violent robberies, house break-ins and burglaries could also be punishable by death or life imprisonment.<\/p>\n
Executions have however not been carried out since Malawi’s first democratically elected president, Bakili Muluzi, opposed the punishment when he took office in 1994.<\/p>\n
AFP reports that in a landmark ruling on Wednesday, Supreme Court judges hearing an appeal by a murder convict declared the death penalty “unconstitutional”, de facto abolishing the punishment.<\/p>\n
According to Amnesty International, Malawi last executed around two dozen prisoners in 1992.<\/p>\n
More than 30 countries in Africa still have the death penalty on their books, but just under half have carried out executions in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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