OSMAN: The Commission calls upon Government to ensure that all those persons who were recently sentenced to death and are on death row, should have their sentences commuted to life The Malawi Human Rights Commission(MHRC) has commended the Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda’s led Supreme Court of Malawi for abolishing death sentence in country as right step towards restoring dignity to human rights especially right to life. On 28th of April, 2021 the Supreme Court ruled that death sentence is unconstitutional and illegal on Khoviwa vs Republic case. “For the past two sessions of the Universal Periodic Review, the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has recommended to the Malawi Government to consider abolishing the death penalty by signing the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) states that every person has the inherent right to life and that the right must be protected by law. The ICCPR is premised on the presumption that all countries must abolish death penalty. That is why Article 6(6) of the same Covenant provides that “Nothing in this article shall be invoked to delay or to prevent the abolition of capital punishment by any State Party to the present Covenant’. What the Supreme Court has done, therefore takes Malawi towards the desired status in the international community.