The new president, a human rights lawyer, has the opportunity to abolish the death penalty
The African Court ruling on Tanzania’s mandatory death penalty ruled that sentencing someone to death by hanging violates Article 5 of the African Charte
These kinds of amendments are regressive and driven by political expediency for short-term gains
If elected, the African Transformation Movement will not play ‘sweethearts’ with criminals and would also not consider their human rights
In defiance of a judgment by the African court on human and peoples’ rights,capital punishment remains — even if death sentences are never executed