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Ex-president's death sentence commuted to life

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    Ex-president Moussa Traore will not walk out of prison a free man but the state will not kill him after sentencing him to death for stealing state funds. Mali's current president, Alpha Oumar Konare, commuted Traore's death sentence to life on Tuesday, the second time he has done so. Announcing the clemency on Mali's 39th independence anniversary, Konare also commuted to life the death sentences on Traore's wife, Mariam, and his brother in law Abramane Doua, news reports said. All three were sentenced to death for economic crimes on 12 January. Traore, who ruled the poor landlocked country with an iron fist for 23 years before a coup ousted him, was first sentenced to death in 1997 for "crimes of blood", Reuters reported.

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