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Death Penalty Worldwide recently updated its\u00a0research on the death penalty in Uganda<\/a>.\u00a0 Our research shows that although Uganda has not carried out any executions since 2005, courts continue to impose death sentences for a variety of offenses. \u00a0We estimate that there are at least 293 individuals currently under sentence of death, and many more who are awaiting trial on death-eligible offenses.\u00a0 In order to handle the large number of capital cases on remand, the Justice Law and Order Sector launched a program of targeted and intensified capital trials to reduce the average time capital offenders spend in pretrial detention. High Court judges are under an obligation to hear thirty cases and sentence fifty to sixty defendants in a 40-day session. Observers have expressed concern about the protection of fair trial principles in such an expedited system.<\/p>\n

In a watershed development, the mandatory death penalty was deemed unconstitutional in Uganda by the Constitutional Court in 2005 in\u00a0Susan Kigula and 416 others v. The Attorney General<\/em>.\u00a0 Over the last nine years, the courts have made slow but steady progress in their efforts to comply with the\u00a0Kigula\u00a0<\/em>judgment by providing resentencing hearings for each prisoner given a mandatory death sentence.\u00a0 In 2013, the Constitution Sentencing Guidelines for Courts of Judicature Practice Directions set out mitigating factors for all judges to consider during resentencing hearings.\u00a0 These factors include considerations such as the age of the individual at the time of the crime, mental health issues and demonstrated potential for rehabilitation. As of April 2014, 196 of the \u201cKigula beneficiaries\u201d have been resentenced\u2014a laudable development.\u00a0 Nevertheless, around 192 individuals are still waiting to be resentenced and have already spent 9 years in prison under constitutionally invalid sentences.<\/p>\n

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Death Penalty Worldwide recently updated its\u00a0research on the death penalty in Uganda.\u00a0 Our research shows that although Uganda has not carried out any executions since 2005, courts continue to impose death sentences for a variety of offenses. \u00a0We estimate that there are at least 293 individuals currently under sentence of death, and many more who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,75],"tags":[88,90],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death-penalty-database-fr","category-research-fr","tag-death-penalty-database-fr","tag-research-fr"],"better_featured_image":{"id":917,"alt_text":"alt=\"\"","caption":"","description":"dexc","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1256,"height":837,"file":"2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-300x200.jpg","width":300,"height":200,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-300x200.jpg"},"large":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-1024x682.jpg","width":1024,"height":682,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-1024x682.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"0356_13_111_select-Law-books-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books-768x512.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":1970,"source_url":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0356_13_111_select-Law-books.jpg"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"external_author":"Shubra Ohri","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpw.lawschool.cornell.edu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}