July 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The European Union has welcomed the promulgation in the Central African Republic of the law to abolish the death penalty in the country, after a moratorium of more than 40 years.
“It is a text that has been the subject of a historic vote by acclamation in the National Assembly,” Brussels has made known after the culmination, at the end of last month, of the procedures to definitively suspend capital punishment.
The Parliament of the Central African Republic unanimously approved in May the definitive abolition of the death penalty in the African country, where the last execution dates back to 1981, and transferred the decision to the country’s president, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, so that he promulgated the corresponding decree.
The EU recalls that the Central African Republic has become the third country to abolish the death penalty in less than a year, after Sierra Leone in October 2021 and Papua New Guinea in January.
“The EU is firmly opposed to the death penalty, an inhuman and degrading punishment whose deterrent effect has not been demonstrated,” the note concludes.
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