iv. Implementation and reporting 209. Both Parties, apart from making a generic prayer that the Court should grant other reliefs as it deems fit, did not make specific prayers in respect of implementation and reporting. *** 210. The justification provided earlier in respect of the Court’s decision to order publication of the Judgment notwithstanding the absence of express prayers by the Parties is equally applicable in respect of implementation and reporting. Specifically in relation to implementation, the Court notes that in its previous judgments issuing the order to repeal the provision on the mandatory death penalty, the Respondent State was directed to implement the decisions within one (1) year of issuance of the same.66 211. Given the noncompliance demonstrated earlier in this Judgment, the Court considers that restating the same timeframe in the present Application would undermine the urgency of having the impugned provision removed from the Respondent State’s Penal Code. In the circumstances, the Court decides to set the time for implementation at six (6) months from the date of the present Judgment with respect to legislative measure that the Respondent State should take to repeal mandatory death penalty from its Penal code. 212. As regards reporting, the Court considers that this is required as a matter of judicial practice. With particular emphasis on timeframe, the Court notes that time allocated in judgments pending implementation have cumulatively reached three (3) years. For the same reasons as expounded while examining the orders for both publication and implementation, a report should be provided within a period that is shorter than that set out in individual judgments. The Court considers that the appropriate time should, therefore, be six (6) months in the circumstances. 66 Rajabu and Others v. Tanzania, ibid, § 171, xv, xvi; Henerico v. Tanzania, ibid, § 203. 53

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