SOUTH SUDAN: SEVEN MEN INCLUDING MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY HANGED

March 3, 2019:

South Sudan authorities executed at least seven people in February 2019 alone, three of whom were from the same family. This is as many as were executed in the whole of 2018 and represents a shocking spike in the use of the death penalty in the country, Amnesty International said on 1 March 2019.
Six of this year’s victims were executed in Juba Central Prison, while at least one was executed in Wau Central Prison. All the victims were men. The country executes people by hanging.
Amnesty International has established that at least three of the executions undertaken in February 2019 were shrouded in secrecy; the family of the three related men was not informed of their impending execution and only learnt of the death of their loved ones after they had been executed.
Amnesty International established that at least four of the seven executed men had been convicted of murder.