Lebanon takes step to become first Arab country to abolish death penalty


BEIRUT — Lebanon moved to abolish the death penalty on Tuesday, making it the first Arab state to end the practice.

The country’s parliament overwhelmingly passed the measure in a landmark vote, making life sentence with hard labor the highest penalty that can be imposed.



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