"Once the legislation goes to parliament and gets approved, that ends the story of the death penalty," Koroma told AFP.
He added that the cabinet of President Julius Maada Bio had decided to push to abolish capital punishment in order to"uphold the fundamental human rights of Sierra Leoneans".But the government announced the move on Wednesday during a review of Sierra Leone's human rights record at the United Nations, Koroma said.
A diamond-rich former British colony, the nation of 7.5 million people remains one of the poorest in the world. Sierra Leone's economy was ravaged by a 1991-2002 civil war that claimed 120,000 lives, followed by an Ebola epidemic from 2014 to 2016.
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