Capital punishment in Burkina Faso

Capital punishment in Burkina Faso has been abolished. In late May 2018, the National Assembly of Burkina Faso adopted a new penal code that omitted the death penalty as a sentencing option, thereby abolishing the death penalty for all crimes.

Before the abolition of capital punishment in 2018, capital punishment had been abolished de facto, as the country had carried out its last executions in 1989.

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