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UK envoy urges countries to emulate Rwanda on death penalty

KIGALI - The British envoy to Rwanda, Ben Llewellyn-Jones, has described the death penalty as a horrendous punishment that should not be applied on any human being.He called upon other countries to emulate Rwanda in repealing this sentence from their books of law.The world is today, for the ninth time, marking the Day against Death Penalty, which aims at raising awareness on the inhumanity of the sentence.
The British High Commissioner Ben Llewellyn-Jones . The New Times / File.
The British High Commissioner Ben Llewellyn-Jones . The New Times / File.
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