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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone officially adopted the death penalty in...

Sierra Leone officially adopted the death penalty in 1991 as enshrined in section 16 (1) of that year's Constitution, and since then successive regimes have carried out state instituted killings, the most recent being the execution by firing squad of 24

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Sierra Leone officially adopted the death penalty in 1991 as enshrined in section 16 (1) of that year's Constitution, and since then successive regimes have carried out state instituted killings, the most recent being the execution by firing squad of 24 officers and men of the defunct AFRC in 1998 by the current Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) government.