RWANDA MAY REVIEW DEATH PENALTY

Rwanda is to consider a proposal to scrap the death penalty for genocide suspects living in exile. Many countries refuse to extradite criminal suspects to states which use torture and execution.
Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga said he hoped the death penalty exemption would encourage the transfer of suspects to Rwanda "to face justice".
Some 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were slaughtered during the 100-day genocide in 1994. "We badly need to have those fugitives handed to Rwanda and special exemption from the death penalty is the one sure way we can have them brought to face justice for their crimes here," Ngoga told the Rwandan news agency.
He said the draft law, which will be given to the minister of justice next week, would need to be passed by parliament.
The new legislation would also encourage the transfer of those suspects detained at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, the prosecutor general said.