Kenya
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- the 1963 constitution was replaced by a new one on August 27, 2010
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- it is based on English, Islamic, and customary law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- National Assembly (although the new 2010 constitution introduced a bicameral Parliament consisting of the Senate (94 members) and the National Assembly (290 members), in practice the system is unicameral as only the second chamber functions)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, High Court, and three subordinate courts
RELIGIONS
45% Protestant, 33% Catholic, 10% Muslim, 10% Indigenous beliefs, 2% Other
From the country
- AUGUST 11, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
SEVEN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN CONGO FOR MURDER
the Butembo Military Tribunal in Nord Kivu (in eastern DR Congo) has sentenced two Congolese nationals...
- AUGUST 1, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. DEATH PENALTY HERE TO STAY, MP’S DECIDE
Members of Parliament in Kenya defeated a Motion seeking to abolish the death penalty
- JULY 24, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA: WOMAN TO HANG FOR POISONING CHILDREN
the High Court in Nakuru, Kenya, sentenced a woman to death for poisoning her son and two stepchildren.
- JULY 9, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. CALL FOR ABOLITION AS THOUSANDS AWAIT EXECUTION
politicians from leading parties and prominent human rights activists
- JULY 4, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MOBILE PHONE THEFT
a man in Kenya was sentenced to death for stealing personal effects, including a mobile phone, worth 15,000 shillings (225 dollars), judicial sources said.
- MAY 2, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
eight people on death row challenged the sentence...
eight people on death row challenged the sentence...
- APRIL 18, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. NATIONAL COMMISSION CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY
Parliament should take urgent steps to abolish the death penalty in Kenya. It should freeze all current death sentences and transfer convicts on the death row to life imprisonment, through a Presidential declaration.
- MARCH 8, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF GIRLFRIEND
after more than two years of trial, a Nairobi court found James Love Mwangongo guilty of murdering his
- FEBRUARY 18, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
APPEAL COURT UPHOLDS RAPIST’S DEATH SENTENCE
the Court of Appeal, in Kenya, upheld the death sentence imposed by the Nyeri High Court on a man who raped a 7-year-old minor, causing her death.
- FEBRUARY 1, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
MAN, 23, TO HANG FOR KILLING HIS LOVER
aged only 23, John Ndunda Mwanika is to hang for killing his boss and burying her in a kiosk after being caught in a love triangle.
- JANUARY 1, 2007KenyaDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason and armed robbery are capital crimes.
Murder, treason and armed robbery are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 18, 2006KenyaDEATH PENALTY
KENYA. DEATH SENTENCE WAS TOO HARSH, SAYS NGUGI
novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o said the death sentence passed by a Kenyan court on the three guards who attacked him and his wife was too harsh.