the Constitutional Court of Benin ruled that Benin’s 2012 ratification of the Second Option

the Constitutional Court of Benin ruled that Benin’s 2012 ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (aiming at the abolition of the death penalty) rendered all legal provisions stipulating the imposition of the death penalty inoperative, effectively confirming the 2012 abolition of the death penalty.