Adel Nassar is a Lebanese public figure involved in governance; current updates focus on Lebanon's parliament voting to formalize a 2004 moratorium on executions, excluding Hezbollah.
Lebanon's parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, replacing it with life imprisonment with aggravated hard labour. The measure passed Tuesday by a parliamentary majority, opposed by Hezbollah's bloc, and will go to cabinet and then President Joseph Aoun for signature. Implementation details and prison capacity remain unclear.