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Privy Council Abolishes Mandatory Death Penalty in the Bahamas
In a landmark decision delivered on 8th March 2006, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council unanimously struck down the mandatory death sentence imposed on those convicted of murder in the Bahamas, as being in breach of the Constitution.
Press Release: 417 Saved from the Death Penalty in Uganda – the End of the Mandatory Death Penalty in Africa?
In the first ever case of its kind in Africa, the Constitutional Court of Uganda today declared unconstitutional the death sentences on all 417 prisoners on death row.
