The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal abolished the death penalty in April, the most notable decision against capital punishment since the South African Constitutional Court found the penalty unconstitutional in 1995.
AuthorAndrew Novak
Andrew Novak is Term Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at George Mason University, where he teaches courses on international law and human rights. He has also taught African law at American University Washington College of Law.
His research interests are primarily in the areas of comparative law, comparative constitutional law, and the death penalty, with a specific concentration in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of The Global Decline of the Mandatory Death Penalty, Comparative Executive Clemency, and The African Challenge to Global Death Penalty Abolition.