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Djibouti

Djibouti abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1995...

Djibouti abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1995...

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Djibouti abolished the death penalty for all crimes in 1995, when the reformed Penal Code and Code of Penal Procedure came into force on January 1.  
Only one person had previously been sentenced to death, for a terrorist offence, and his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment in 1993.
No executions have been reported in Djibouti since it gained independence from France on June 27, 1977.
On December 18, 2008 Djibouti abstained on the Resolution on a Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty at the UN General Assembly.