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26 Years Without an Execution. Why Is Uganda Still Sentencing People to Death?

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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developmentdiaries.com broke the news on Monday, June 15, 2026.
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