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The Gambia Supreme Court has traveled the death of a minister who was convicted of killing his colleague to live in prison.

The minister is one of the few who was convicted of crimes committed during the 22 -year rule former Dictator Yahya Jammeh.

This case has been watched closely in a small West African country as an example of rare accountability for the jammeh era crime and also as a test case for the moratorium on the death penalty for years.

The verdict was announced on Tuesday strengthened the decision on Yankuba Touray for the murder in 1995 from the former Minister of State Finance, Ousman Koro Ceesay.

But the judge decided that Touray would avoid hanging and vice versa serving a life sentence in prison outside the capital, Banjul.

A Gambia commission in 2021 recommended the prosecution for murder, torture, and other violations under Jammeh, who was in exile at Guinea Equatorial after he fled from the country after his defeat in the 2016 election by President Adama Barrow.

Gambia has observed the moratorium on the death penalty since 2018. Although the court has imposed several death penalties for crimes committed under Jammeh, who ruled the West African state for 22 years after winning power in the 1994 coup, nothing was done.

However, the punishment has triggered debate in Gambia about the use of the death penalty.

The former Chief of Gambia’s eyes and four other former intelligence officials was sentenced to death in 2022 due to the murder of activists and critics Jammeh Solo Sandeng.

A number of other cases around the world have seen punishment against Jammeh era officials.

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