Twenty-two years ago, three convicts were executed in Lebanon for the last time

Lebanon marks 22 years without a capital execution. On that grim Jan. 17, 2004, three men convicted of murder — Ahmad Mansour, Badih Hamdeh, and Remi Zaatar — were executed at dawn at Roumieh Prison, despite a mobilization by human rights activists. Since then, Lebanon has not carried out any executions, although it continues to hand down death sentences: eighty-four individuals remain on death row, some for many years. How progress is made Rereading 'The Stranger' from colonial Algeria: The political act of Francois Ozon "We demand the abolition of the death penalty because the death penalty kills," declared Ogarit Younan, activist and co-founder of the Lebanese abolitionist movement. From the headquarters of the Lebanese Association for Civil Rights (LACR), she advocated Friday for "more humane sanctions" and...