Capital punishment in Burkina Faso

Capital punishment in Burkina Faso has been abolished. In late May 2018, the National Assembly of Burkina Faso adopted a new penal code that omitted the death penalty as a sentencing option, thereby abolishing the death penalty for all crimes.[1][2][3][4][5]

Before the abolition of capital punishment in 2018, capital punishment had been abolished de facto, as the country had carried out its last executions in 1989.[6]

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