The death penalty in Sub-Saharan African in 2009  Only two
countries in sub-Saharan Africa carried out executions: Botswana
(1) and Sudan (at least 9). The death penalty was abolished in
Burundi and Togo.  At least 194 death sentences were known to
have been imposed in 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa in 2009
as follows: Benin (at least 5), Botswana (2), Burkina Faso (at
least 6), Chad (+), DRC (+), Ethiopia (at least 11), Gambia (at
least 1), Ghana (at least 7), Kenya (+), Liberia (3), Mali at
least (10), Mauritania (at least 1), Nigeria (58), Sierra Leone
(at least 1), Somalia (12, 6 of which in Puntland and 6 within
jurisdiction of the Transitional Federal Government), Sudan (at
least 60), Tanzania (+), Uganda (+), and Zimbabwe (at least 7).
In April Burundi passed a new penal code that did not include
the death penalty. Togo abolished the death penalty in June.
The Sudanese government executed nine men in April 2009; all
said that they had been tortured to make them sign confessions.
They had been con