Mile 2 Prison 2 Prison on charges of sedition after writing a letter critical of the government. On 23 August 2012, nine inmates were ordered to be executed by lethal injection on the orders of Yahya Jammeh, including one inmate whose death sentence had recently been commuted to life. These were the first executions to be carried out in Gambia since 1981. Mile 2 Prison Mile 2 Prison is a notorious penal institution in the West African country of The Gambia that is located on the highway between Serrekunda and the capital city of Banjul, across the road from a military barracks. Officially
Capital punishment by country New Guinea and Tonga) have not used it in years. The last known executions in this region took place in Tonga in 1982. At least 23 countries performed executions in 2017: Precise numbers are not available for many countries, so the total number of executions is unknown. Other countries like Libya conducted extrajudicial executions. Of the 54 independent states in Africa that are UN members: Many African countries have carried out no executions for over 10 years, but are not believed to have an abolitionist policy or established practice. The information above is accurate , when Guinea abolished capital punishment.