The Constitutional Council concluded its work on the Draft Law, issuing a decision and a reasoned opinion that Article 3 potentially conflicted with the Constitution in referring to articles in the 1956 Penal Code without explicitly rejecting the death pe

The Constitutional Council concluded its work on the Draft Law, issuing a decision and a reasoned opinion that Article 3 potentially conflicted with the Constitution in referring to articles in the 1956 Penal Code without explicitly rejecting the death penalty. The decision did not specify what course of action was required, but most observers (including the Prime Minister in a comment made on 23 February, and Senior Minister Sok An on 27 February) understood that Article 3 would have to be revised. As the National Assembly was currently in recess, this process of revision was postponed.
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