Gambia: The Constitution and the Death Penalty

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Although The Gambia is predominantly Muslim, the country is not governed by Sharia but is a secular state. The Constitution is the guiding law of the Gambia.

This is why one cannot apply Sharia law as practised in Saudi Arabia or Mecca in the Gambia. The Constitution of The Gambia in some respects meet universal standards. Let us not for get that the Gambia is nation within a continent of African and within the word so therefore the governance principles and laws must not be isolated from the international relations. Many countries within our region such as the ECOWAS member states were executing death row prisoners, but have abolished the death penalty. The military regimes in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leona have now being changed to civilian democratic government which helped them to stop the executions of death row prisoners by firing squads. These countries have realised that sentencing their own citizens to the death does not solve any problem.

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