Maduro Proposes Reform Allowing Life Sentences for Corruption

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro proposed a constitutional reform to allow life sentences in prison for those found guilty of corruption and treason.

Maduro, speaking at a rally on Saturday in Caracas, asked supporters to back his plan to change the country’s constitution to also introduce life-long political bans against anyone found guilty of corruption, treason and “serious crimes against the people.” Venezuelan courts don’t currently allow sentences of life in prison.