Abdou N'Daffa Faye (died March 1967) was the

assassin Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have a ...

of Demba Diop, a minister in the

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

. Faye shot Diop on 3 February 1967 in a parking lot in

Thiès Thiès (; ar, ثيس, Ṯyass; Noon: ''Chess'') is the third largest city in Senegal with a population officially estimated at 320,000 in 2005. It lies east of Dakar on the N2 road and at the junction of railway lines to Dakar, Bamako and St- ...

. Faye was

sentenced to death Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

by a Senegalese court, and was the first of two people to be executed in post-independence Senegal. He was executed by

firing squad Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French ''fusil'', rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are ...

in March 1967. However, according to Amnesty International, Faye was the second and most recent person to have been executed by Senegal. This information is contradicted by other sources, which report that

Moustapha Lô Moustapha Lô (died 15 June 1967) was a Senegalese man who attempted to assassinate Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor on 22 March 1967 at the Dakar Grand Mosque. Lô was convicted of treason, was sentenced to death by a Senegalese cour ...

was executed in June 1967 and that Faye was, in fact, the first person executed by Senegal.

References

* Amnesty International (1989). ''When the State Kills: The Death Penalty v. Human Rights'' (New York: Amnesty International, ) p. 200 *——
"West Africa: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty"
2003-10-10 *Keesing's Publications (1972). ''Africa Independent: A Survey of Political Developments'' (New York: Scribner) p. 236 1967 deaths 20th-century executions by Senegal Executed Senegalese people Executed assassins People executed by Senegal by firing squad Senegalese assassins People convicted of murder by Senegal Senegalese people convicted of murder Year of birth missing 1967 murders in Africa {{Senegal-bio-stub