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Burkina Faso's parliament has voted to reinstate the death penalty, six years after it was abolished.
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The West African country's legislature adopted a new penal code on Tuesday that brings back capital punishment for crimes including terrorism, espionage and treason.
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All 71 members of the legislature voted in favour of the new code, the country's justice minister, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, said.
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The vote reverses the abolition of the death penalty that had been in place since 2018, under the previous and democratically elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
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Human Rights Watch said that the last known execution in Burkina Faso took place in 1988.
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The path back to capital punishment began in December, when the junta's Council of Ministers approved a bill reinstating it.
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Human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, criticised the move as repressive and an effort to suppress dissent.
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In 2024, Mr Bayala announced that “the issue of the death penalty … is being discussed (and) will be implemented.”
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The military junta has previously been accused of targeting dissidents by detaining human rights defenders and journalists.
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It also dissolved all political parties in the country and scrapped the laws governing them earlier this year.
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The vote comes as Burkina Faso, a landlocked country of 23 million people, grapples with a security crisis.
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Authorities are battling militant groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.
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Rights groups have accused both government forces and militants from Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an al-Qaida-aligned group, of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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A Human Rights Watch report this year said government forces killed over twice as many civilians as jihadis between 2023 and 2025.
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The countries with the highest use of the death penalty include China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United States – which is the only G7 country, aside from Japan, to carry out executions.
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About half of all African nations still have the death penalty on their books, with Nigeria, Somalia, Botswana, and Egypt frequently putting people to death by capital punishment.
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