Uganda has spent 26 years refusing to carry out executions while continuing to sentence people to death, leaving dozens of prisoners trapped between a punishment the state will not enforce and a freedom it will not grant. Development Diaries reports that Christopher Onyum was sentenced to death by hanging in May 2026 after being convicted of murdering four toddlers at a nursery school in Kampala. His sentence placed him among 93 inmates currentl…
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