Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

former President of Burkina Faso ousted in a coup d'état on 23 Jan 2022

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Burkina Faso reinstates death penalty, abolished in 2018, under military junta
Burkina Faso's transitional legislature unanimously approved a new penal code on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, bringing back capital punishment for terrorism, high treason, espionage and parricide.