By Murtala Mohamed Kamara, AfricaNews
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 26 June 2009: Amnesty International hailed Togo for becoming the latest country to abolish the death penalty.
The Togolese parliament on Tuesday voted unanimously to abolish the law, an occasion witnessed by the Prime Minister of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, active supporter of global moratorium.
Zapatero said Tuesday’s decision of erasing the death penalty on their law books had raised a voice for justice and human dignity. The BBC put the figures of convicts for this year alone to six.
Togolese Justice Minister Kokou Touzon said: – I think that it’s the best decision that we took this year…we don’t have the right to give death to someone if we know that the death is not a good thing to give.
