The LHRC on October 10, 2014 marked the World Anti Death Penalty Day by issuing a press statement calling upon the need to ensure that the coming Tanzanian Constitution scraps out a provision on death penalty.
The move came following the proposed Constitution incorporating a provision under Article 95:- (1) ( c) mentioning one among the Presidential duties as to commute a death sentence into life imprisonment, evidence that the country will still cling into the capital punishment.
The LHRC marks the World
Anti Death Penalty Day with its case to challenge the legality of the Capital
punishment lagging at the High Court of Tanzanian for 7 years now.
On October
10, 2008, the LHRC in collaboration with the SAHRINGON Tanzania Chapter and the
Tanganyika Law Society filed a case at the High Court calling upon the
government to scrap away the death penalty in its country books and alternate
for life imprisonment on account that it violates the right to life.
Tanzania
still retains the death penalty in its country books and the last time someone
was hanged was in 1984.
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