Friday, May 04, 2012
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| Former CDS Tamba in death row after conviction on treason |
The Gambia in 2011 alone imposed 13 new death sentences, according to Amnesty International, an international human rights watchdog.
The sentences were handed down for murder and treason after trials described as “often grossly unfair.”
Amnesty expressed concern that in the majority of countries where people were sentenced to death or executed, the death penalty was imposed after proceedings that did not meet international fair trial standards.
“In 2011 people continued to be sentenced to death or executed for crimes that did not involve the intention to kill resulting in the loss of life, therefore not meeting the threshold of “most serious crimes.”
