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Uganda Abolishes Death Penalty

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Uganda has joined the league of countries that have abolished the death penalty. The Parliament in the east African country passed a law to scrap mandatory death penalty from the country’s laws.

President Yoweri Museveni is expected to append his signature to the new law paving the way for its implementation. Thus the severest form of punishment for a crime will be life imprisonment.


President Museveni is expected to sign the bill into law

Uganda has not executed any condemned prisoner in the last decade. However, this is a welcoming news to the 133 prisoners being held on death row.

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