Burkina Faso’s military-led government has reinstated the death penalty after the country’s unelected legislature unanimously approved a new penal code. The new penal code reverses the 2018 abolition of capital punishment. According to the justice ministry, it aims to strengthen public order, uphold national values, and protect people and property. State news agency AIB reported that offenses punishable by death include terrorism, espionage, treason, patricide and the importation of expired or banned products that cause death. The move follows an announcement last year by junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traoré that his government planned to restore capital punishment. Amnesty International, which had urged Burkina Faso not to revive the practice, says the country’s last recorded execution took place in 1988.