Episode 67: Africa is gradually abolishing the death penalty, but will it matter without justice reforms?

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On July 23, Sierra Leone's Parliament voted unanimously to make the west African country the 23rd on the continent to abolish the death penalty. That's a laudable. But is it enough, given the sorry state of the continent's criminal justice systems -- most of which are carryovers from the colonial days?