Gambia suspend death penalty

Gambia wants to get rid of the death penalty.

The death penalty is declining all over Africa. According to Amnesty International, only 22 executions were implemented in that judgment in 2016, against 43 in the previous year. 'I take the opportunity to proclaim a moratorium on the death penalty in The Gambia as a first step towards abolition,' Barrow said in a speech on the 53rd anniversary of Britain's independence.