Gambia: 'I Will Not Succumb to Any Human Pressure'  The
president of the Republic has vowed that he will not in any way
succumb to any human pressure in the execution of his mandate.
His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh made the
remark while addressing over 4000 youths who were at the weekend
in Kanilai to weed his 8-kilometer farm.  He said: "I am working
for you [Gambians] and I will live for you and die for you. I
will not succumb to human pressure, no way, but if you the
Gambian people plead with me to halt the executions, I will
suspend it because whatever I do, I do it for your interest. If
you Gambians want the death penalty to be removed from the
constitution, it will be removed."  The president also
emphasised that the death penalty is not specifically for any
citizen but for murderers. "It has nothing to do with politics.
If I am to sign 10, 000 death warrants to save 1.6 million
Gambians, I will do it. If any country has a citizen in The
Gambia and do not want them to face the fir