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High Crime Rate Forces Liberia to Reintroduce the Death Penalty and Put International Treaty Obligations aside: What the Critics Missed?

High Crime Rate Forces Liberia to Reintroduce the Death Penalty and Put International Treaty... RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – ACTUALITES HIGH CRIME RATE FORCES LIBERIA TO REINTRODUCE THE DEATH PENALTY AND PUT INTERNATIONAL TREATY OBLIGATIONS ASIDE: WHAT THE CRITICS MISSED? ∗ I. INTRODUCTION On 22 July 2008 the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, assented to a Bill that amended the 1976 Penal Code by providing that death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole shall be imposed on an offender who, during the commission of the crimes of terrorism or hijacking or armed robbery, causes the death of his victim. The law also provided that a person convicted of one of the above offences and who raped or attempted to rape his victim or who caused partial or permanent disability to his victim shall be sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of release at the age of 90 years old. The death penalty was introduced for the above offences despite of the fact that Liberia ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty,1 the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, on 16 September 2005, which specifically obliges States Parties to ‘take all necessary measures to abolish the death http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Journal of International and Comparative Law Edinburgh University Press

High Crime Rate Forces Liberia to Reintroduce the Death Penalty and Put International Treaty Obligations aside: What the Critics Missed?

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2009
Subject
Recent Developments – Actualites; Recent Developments – Actualités; African Studies
ISSN
0954-8890
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1755-1609
DOI
10.3366/E0954889009000437
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS – ACTUALITES HIGH CRIME RATE FORCES LIBERIA TO REINTRODUCE THE DEATH PENALTY AND PUT INTERNATIONAL TREATY OBLIGATIONS ASIDE: WHAT THE CRITICS MISSED? ∗ I. INTRODUCTION On 22 July 2008 the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, assented to a Bill that amended the 1976 Penal Code by providing that death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole shall be imposed on an offender who, during the commission of the crimes of terrorism or hijacking or armed robbery, causes the death of his victim. The law also provided that a person convicted of one of the above offences and who raped or attempted to rape his victim or who caused partial or permanent disability to his victim shall be sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of release at the age of 90 years old. The death penalty was introduced for the above offences despite of the fact that Liberia ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty,1 the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR, on 16 September 2005, which specifically obliges States Parties to ‘take all necessary measures to abolish the death

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African Journal of International and Comparative Law – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2009

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