{{The President of Gambia Yahya Jammeh has insisted that all prisoners on Death Row must be killled.}}<\/p>\n
Nine prisoners have already been executed by firing squad on Sunday.<\/p>\n
President Jammeh has vowed to kill all 47 death-row inmates by mid-September.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International attacked the policy last week when it reported that the executions had been carried out three days earlier.<\/p>\n
Many of Gambia’s death row inmates are former officials and top military officers who have been detained for treason since 1994, when Jammeh took power in a coup.<\/p>\n
One woman was among those executed, the Interior Ministry said, listing crimes such as murder, treason, arson, drug and human trafficking as being punishable by death.<\/p>\n
It was not clear what crimes each of the nine prisoners were executed for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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