{"id":2177,"date":"2012-06-15T19:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-death-penalty-worldwide.pantheonsite.io\/chad\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:41:56","slug":"chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/chad\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death Penalty Worldwide<\/a>\u00a0continues its examination of francophone countries this week with a substantial update of its entry for Chad.<\/p>\n

Although Chad is a retentionist country according to the United Nations\u2019 definition, very few executions have taken place in Chad in the last two decades. Since 1991, Chad has maintained a de facto moratorium with the exception of the year 2003, when the government executed nine men over a period of 4 days.\u00a0 Four of the nine men had been found guilty two weeks earlier of assassinating a Sudanese politician and businessman. The Chadian government described this case, the Adouma affair, as a \u201cheinous and particularly spectacular crime committed by felons in the middle of town,\u201d requiring a \u201cforceful\u201d response in order to \u201cregain the trust of foreign investors\u201d by sending a strong message about its response to chronic insecurity. \u00a0The remaining five executed men had been convicted of unrelated homicides.<\/p>\n

The executions were controversial; they also undermined national momentum toward abolition.\u00a0 A few months earlier, a national law reform committee had recommended that the government abolish the death penalty. The executions also violated international law, as some of the prisoners were executed before they had exhausted their appeals.<\/p>\n

Since 2003, Chad\u2019s position with regard to the death penalty has remained ambiguous. In its June 2008 report to the Human Rights Committee, the Chadian government declared that, following the \u201csharp criticism and censure\u201d generated by the Adouma executions, \u201call death penalties [had] been commuted to life sentences,\u201d and added that it was \u201cpreparing the population to accept the abolition of the death penalty.\u201d Two months later, however, a Chadian court convicted former President Hiss\u00e8ne Habr\u00e9 and 11 opposition leaders\u00a0in absentia<\/em>\u00a0and sentenced them to death for crimes against Chad\u2019s constitutional order, territorial integrity and security. Habr\u00e9 currently lives in Senegal, and Chad\u2019s government continues to seek his extradition. Furthermore, Chad signed the 2008 and 2010\u00a0Note verbale de dissociation<\/em>, which registered its formal opposition to the U.N. General Assembly\u2019s resolutions on a global death penalty moratorium. Chadian courts have also continued to hand down death sentences. Most recently, in July 2011, a N\u2019Djamena criminal court handed down a death sentence to Guidaoussou Tordinan for killing his wife and injuring his mother-in-law.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Chad accepted the recommendation it received during its 2009 Universal Periodic Review to ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, which aims at achieving the universal abolition of capital punishment.<\/p>\n

Death Penalty Worldwide\u2019s full entry for Chad can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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