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Casablanca — A Tetouan man who was charged with the murder after killing a mosque-goer last August has just been sentenced to the death penalty.
The court sentenced the man, who admitted his guilt, on Tuesday, November 29 to the death penalty after the murder of a man inside the Al Andalous mosque in the Mellah neighborhood of Tetouan, an act which authorities concluded was premeditated.
Since the verdict was publicized, a new conversation on the death penalty in Morocco was started.
Earlier today, it was reported that Morocco had abstained from voting on a United Nations resolution asking for the international abolition of the death penalty.
The resolution was presented to the UN’s third committee, specializing in human rights.
On November 17, a UN press release stated that a “representative of Morocco said his country had had a de facto moratorium on the death penalty since 1993.” With the recent death sentence handed in Tetouan, this statement is no longer true, which begs the question as to what the nation will tell the UN the next time it asks about the death penalty.
The UN would have also criticized the country’s position on the death penalty, arguing that it was incompatible with Articles 20 and 21 of the constitution.
