Sierra Leone
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- October 1, 1991, subsequently amended
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- English legal system based on common law and local traditions
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral Parliament
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, High Court
RELIGIONS
60% Muslims, 30% Animists, 10% Christians
From the country
- OCTOBER 9, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
SIERRA LEONE FORMALLY ABOLISHES ‘INHUMANE’ DEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone on 8 October 2021 formally abolished the death penalty, becoming the 23rd African country to repeal capital punishment.
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
SIERRA LEONE: DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED
Sierra Leonean lawmakers voted to abolish the death penalty on 23 July 2021, becoming the latest African country to move toward banning capital punishment.
JULY 21, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: PARLIAMENT DEBATES BILL TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone Telegraph on 20 July 2021 reported that MPs last week debated new laws that will abolish the death penalty.
MAY 13, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: GOVERNMENT MOVES TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone's government will move to abolish the death penalty in the West African state, deputy justice minister Umaru Napoleon Koroma said on 12 May 2021.
MAY 10, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: YOUNG MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AMID DEBATE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone’s High Court Resident Judge in the Kailahun District of the country – Justice Francis Banks-Kamara, on 7 May 2021 sentenced a young man – Kholie Tamba to death by hanging, after he was found guilty of murder.
- MAY 6, 2021Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
SIERRA LEONE MAY SOON ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
The President of the Sierra Leone Bar Association, Eddinia Michaela Swallow, last week took part in a roundtable discussion on the abolition of the death penalty in Sierra Leone.
APRIL 30, 2020Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: 5 MOB CLIQUE MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Sierra Leone High Court Justice Monfred Sesay on 22 April 2020 sentenced five members of a clique group named Members of Blood (MoB) also known as the Red Flag Movement, to death by hanging.
MARCH 12, 2020Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: 3 SENTENCED TO DEATH AND ONE FOR 40 YEARS AS PORT LOKO APPLAUDS THE CHIEF JUSTICE
The Criminal Session of the High Court of Sierra Leone held in Port Loko presided by the Justice Samuel O. Taylor has sentenced three convicted persons to death by hanging and one given 40 years imprisonment, theorganiser.net reported on 9 March 2020.
- JANUARY 1, 2020Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution allows the use of the death penalty for aggravated robbery
Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution allows the use of the death penalty for aggravated robbery
NOVEMBER 20, 2019Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: 18-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
At the Siaka Stevens Street High Court in Freetown on 14 November 2019, 18-year-old Osman Kamara was sentenced to death by hanging after the Jury found him guilty of murder.
JANUARY 22, 2019Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTYSIERRA LEONE: 45 INMATES CONDEMNED TO DEATH
During the official close of the November 2018 criminal session at the High Court of Sierra Leone, on 18 January 2019, superintendent Jonathan Wilson of the Correctional Service noted that there are presently 45 condemned inmates on death row at the Corre
- JANUARY 1, 2019Sierra LeoneDEATH PENALTY
Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution allows the use of the death penalty for aggravated robbery
Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution allows the use of the death penalty for aggravated robbery