Togo

In Togo eighty-one members of parliament have broken new grounds in the quest for human rights by unanimously adopting a law late last night, abolishing the death penalty.

The country now joins more than 100 others who have already done so.

With the death penalty struck off its statutes, hundreds of suspects who feared the electric chair would be their end, can now heave a sigh of relief.

From Lome, Ebow Godwin reports.