The DRC announces reinstatement of the application of the death penalty 20 years after a moratorium. In a note signed by the Minister of Justice on Wednesday March 14, the DRC lifts the moratorium.
The government wants to “ rid our country's army of traitors on the one hand and to stem the resurgence of acts of terrorism and urban banditry leading to human deaths” This capital punishment will be carried out in the event of " irrevocable judicial conviction occurring in time of war, under a state of siege or emergency"